Author: Professor Belinda Colston

Two HAMR researchers in the School of Life Sciences have had papers accepted for the forthcoming 2013 Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition in New Jersey, USA, in November this year.

Ami Pass, currently a Research Fellow within the School, will be presenting a paper on Determining the kinetics of paper degradation in reduced oxygen environments. This doctoral research was funded by the AHRC and is in collaboration with the British Library.

Nicole Fielding, recently appointed as the Athena SWAN Project Officer for the University, will be presenting a paper from her doctoral research, in collaboration with Trinity House on Evaluating the use of agricultural moisture probes in the historic built environment.

HAMR Director, Belinda Colston, recently addressed delegates at the 2013 IALA Preservation of Lighthouse Heritage Conference, in Piraeus, Greece (3-7 June 2013). Discussing recent research at North Foreland Lighthouse, in collaboration with Trinity House, Professor Colston illustrated how excessive ventilation in an unoccupied building can increase the rate of material degradation within. This research is particularly relevant to the historic built environment, where significant buildings are often unoccupied for long periods of time, and encouraging ‘good’ ventilation is a normal conservation strategy.

Jo Willey, a HAMR Masters by Research student, has had two papers accepted at the METAL2013: International Conference on Metal Conservation taking place in Edinburgh in September. The papers represent two different aspects of her Master’s research at Lincoln: The non-invasive characterisation of a collection of 20th century religious medals for an online museum catalogue using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and Evaluating the use of SEM-EDX analysis to determine the effects of surface cleaning treatments in metals conservation.

Jo is currently working as a metals conservator for the British Museum.