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Projects

DF Dickins Consulting Areas

Oil Spills

  • Spill risk assessment
  • Response strategies
  • Best Available Technology Assessment (BAT)
  • Scenario development
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Field testing
  • Behavior and fate of oil in ice

Air Cushion Vehicles (Hovercraft)

  • Technical feasibility studies
  • Route evaluations
  • Economic analysis
  • Vehicle selection and procurement
  • Bid process
  • Vehicle testing
  • New design concepts

Marine Transportation

  • Route evaluation
  • Environmental assessment
  • Port assessment
  • Technical feasibility
  • Database development for transit models
  • Real-time ice forecasting and condition reports
  • Casualty risk analysis

Offshore Engineering

  • Probabilistic analysis of extreme events
  • Metocean design criteria
  • Sea ice analysis
  • Remote sensing, satellite interpretation

Environmental Studies

  • Environmental impact assessment
  • Remote sensing
  • Aerial surveys
  • Field surveys
  • Historical trends
  • Regional ice/ocean databases
  • Literature reviews

Conferences and Workshops

  • Coordination
  • Program development
  • Facilitator/Chair
  • Proceedings

Expert Witness Experience

  • Testimony
  • Engineering evaluations
  • Environmental hearings
  • Legal cases
  • Community presentations