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January 2011 www.sname.org/sname/mt Frank Bercha obtained his bach- elors degree in 1963 and his doctorate in engineering in 1972. His experience includes civil engineering, pipeline and facilities design, arctic oshore structure design, risk and reliability analysis for envi- ronmental protection, public or worker safety, asset optimization, and numerous other applications. He founded the Bercha Group in 1975, specializing in risk and reli- ability, frontier engineering, ice mechanics, and geomatics. Since the early 1990s his main focus has been on risk analysis, with responsibility for innovative developments in assessing the reliability of emergency escape, evacuation, and rescue proce- dures and systems, including quantitative modeling of human performance under life-threatening conditions. Per Johan Brandvik is senior research scien- tist at SINTEF Materials and Chemistry in Trondheim, Norway. George Comfort is the leader of BMT Fleet Technology Ltd.s Cold Regions and Materials Technology Group. He has 35 years experience related to cold regions engineering, including ships and structures in ice. His experience includes many eld measurement and observation programs in the Arctic and elsewhere related to ice problems, labo- ratory testing including physical model testing in ice, and analyses. Claude Daley has undertaken numerous research and devel- opment projects on ships in ice and has pioneered modern concepts of instrumenta- tion for ice loads. He is responsible for the development of many of the current mathematical models for ship-ice inter- action, including those underlying the unied requirements of the International Association of Classication Societies. Daley is director of the BMT Ocean and Arctic Structures Research Program; chair of the Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Program at Memorial; lead on the STePS2 (Sustainable Technology for Polar Ships and Structures) ve-year research program; and chair of the ISSC 2012 Arctic Committee. Andrew Kendrick is vice presi- dent, operations of BMT Fleet Technology Ltd., and a pro- fessional ocean engineer and naval architect with more than 30 years experience. His work with ice-capable ships and oshore structures started on Canadas Polar 8 icebreaker project and Hibernia oshore platform in the early 1980s, and since then has encompassed design, applied research and development projects, and participation in the development of rules, standards and numerous guidance documents for design and operation in ice-infested waters. He is the author of numerous technical publi- cations and is a past chairman of Eastern Canadian SNAME. Mikko Niini is a naval architect and since 2005, he has been managing director of Aker Arctic Technology Inc. of Helsinki, Finland. He gradu- ated from Helsinki Technical University in 1970, and joined Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard that year for the Manhattan project to work on the very rst ice model tests in Finland. In his current position, Niini has continued widen- ing Aker Arctics business scopes in the icy waters, including completing design contracts for two arctic shuttle tankers for Sovcom ot and ve shallow-draught Caspian icebreakers for the Kashagan oil eld in Kazakhstan. Peter Noble is a chief naval architect at ConocoPhillips. In a career spanning more than four decades, he has gained a wide range of expertise and experience in the marine and o- shore industries. He is recognized for his ideas and solutions to the challenges fac- ing those who wish to operate safely and eciently on and under the sea, with a particular emphasis on the polar oceans. Noble is a member of the editorial board of (mt) magazine. Roger Pilkington received his bachelor of science in physics in England and then a Ph.D. in upper atmospheric phys- ics from the University of Calgary in 1970. He began work as an arc- tic consultant in 1973, working for Dome Petroleum for eight years monitoring the operations of drillships and explo- ration platforms working in ice-infested waters. In 1983, he went to Gulf Canada Resources Inc. to work with their new arc- tic drilling system. In 1986 he left Gulf and in 1988 he and three colleagues started Canatec, where he is still employed. Victor Santos-Pedro is direc- tor?design, equipment, and boating safety at Transport Canada. He leads a group of 30-plus people in dealing with arctic shipping regulations and with ship design, construction, and equipment standards, including oshore, shing ves- sels and recreational boating, as well as product approval. He has 30 years expe- rience dealing with arctic shipping. Santos-Pedro obtained his formal edu- cation in naval architecture in England, and is qualied as a Chartered Engineer in Europe and as well as a Professional Engineer in Canada. Göran Wilkman received his master of science in naval architecture from Helsinki University of Technology, graduating in 1975, and began his career at the Wärtsilä Icebreaking Model Basin. In 1987, he joined the Wärtsilä Arctic Research Centre and was responsible for all model and ship testing activities. In 2005, Wilkman joined the newly-founded Aker Arctic Technology Inc. as manager of marketing and sales, and in 2009, he became the manager of testing and research services at Aker. He has been in charge of some 100 eld mis- sions of ice conditions and vessel testing. (feature contributors)