Conserv Welcomes Susan Barger

Conserv Welcomes Susan Barger

The team at Conserv is growing! This week we are introducing a member of our Community Board: M. Susan Barger, PhD. Susan has had a long career in conservation and preservation and has been a research scientist and a professor of materials science. She grew up in the...
Conserv Welcomes Claire Winfield

Conserv Welcomes Claire Winfield

The team at Conserv is growing! This week we are introducing: Claire Winfield. She is our new Conservation Liaison and a painting conservator. Before joining Conserv, Claire worked in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana and for seven years at the Saint Louis...
Conserv’s new environmental monitoring mobile app

Conserv’s new environmental monitoring mobile app

When you work in a museum, archive, library, or gallery, you can count on spending a pretty significant amount of time away from your desk.  Why wouldn’t you? Being able to spend time out in the collection is one of the best parts of working there! With the...
Tips for Grant Funding Environmental Monitoring Projects

Tips for Grant Funding Environmental Monitoring Projects

Our guest blogger is Maddie Cooper. She is a National Endowments for the Humanities Graduate Fellow in Preventive Conservation at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, and she is spending her final year of graduate school as a Fellow in...