Paul Bunker

Paul Bunker
Chiron K9 · Canine

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Canines are used by both government agencies and industries for their keen olfactory capability as well as selectivity, reliability, versatility, and speed. Within the last decade, canines have been used for the detection of on-shore crude oil. They were previously shown to find these deposits with high accuracy, providing increased confidence with...
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Oil Detection Canines (ODC) are proven to detect spilled oil within various environments. The canines can detect hydrocarbon targets sequestered within the environment, including along shorelines. A limitation within the capability is that an ODC detects and responds to all types of hydrocarbons on a shoreline, including any from historical spills...
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The current technology and capability for detecting sunken or submerged oil are very limited. Most techniques have either a low resolution or a slow survey coverage rate, or both. Observations during field deployments have demonstrated the ability of Oil Detection Canines to detect and alert to oil underwater held in the sediment of a river and coa...
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Canines have been employed to detect a wide range of materials since they became domesticated, but only in the past decade have they been applied to locate spilled oil. Oil detection by canines is an emerging science and immediate important research opportunities include the definition of odor signatures that emanate from the oils and that are reco...
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Despite dogs’ widespread use as detection systems, little is known about how dogs generalize to variations of an odorant’s concentration. Further, it is unclear whether dogs can be trained to discriminate between similar concentration variations of an odorant. Four dogs were trained to an odorant (0.01 air dilution of isoamyl acetate) in an air-dil...
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The T/V Arrow sank in 1970, spilling Bunker C fuel oil into Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia. In the summer and fall of 2015, residual oil leaked from the sunken vessel and re-oiled shorelines in the Bay. A K9-SCAT field study, funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), was conducted in June 2016 to assess the capability of detection canine...

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