S07E03: For Science!

Grab your lab coats and don your goggles: we’re taking a closer look at analysis and its role in conservation! Between us we compare notes on heritage science and reflect on some of our experiences. We talk to Sophie Rowe about curiosity and funny smells, Dr Paola Ricciardi about non-invasive techniques, and Rob McLeod about everything from how to talk about science to cool equipment. Don’t forget to join Amanda at the Benchwork Bar for a Ray Gun cocktail (or mocktail) on your way out! 00:00:30 News in brief 00:03:45 Our forays into analysis 00:22:09 Interview with Sophie Rowe 00:37:40 We clearly need a low cost hub for analysis 00:39:46 Interview with Dr Paola Ricciardi 01:01:14 CT scanning adventures 01:03:35 How much?! 01:06:57 How useful is the work of scientists to conservators? 01:14:42 Interview with Rob McLeod 01:26:56 Benchwork Bar: The Ray Gun 01:29:32 Questions, comments, corrections: article attribution Show Notes: - Icon Emerging Professionals Network’s Call for Projects: https://icon.org.uk/groups/emerging-professionals-network/news-events-and-resources - Material Characterization Tests for Objects of Art and Archaeology: https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/material-characterization-tests/?id=217 - Using UV Light in Conservation: https://www.preservationequipment.com/Blog/Blog-Posts/Using-UV-light-in-conservation - Raman spectroscopy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_spectroscopy - Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier-transform_infrared_spectroscopy - Scanning electron microscopy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_electron_microscope - X-radiography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiography_of_cultural_objects - Digital microscopy: https://www.preservationequipment.com/Blog/Blog-Posts/Digital-Microscopes-in-Conservation - Heritage Smells: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/heritage/research/projects/project-archive/heritage-smells - Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography%E2%80%93mass_spectrometry - Miniare project: http://www.miniare.org/ - Multispectral imaging: https://chsopensource.org/multispectral-imaging-system/ - X-ray fluorescence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_fluorescence - Reflectance difference spectroscopy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflectance_difference_spectroscopy - Digitization without Disruption (webinar with Dr David Mills): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQxkyagkg8k&feature=emb_title - Thin-Layer Chromatography for Binding Media Analysis: https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/0892363908.html - Polarizing Microscopy: https://chsopensource.org/microscopy-for-art-examination-polarizing-microscopy/ - Natural History Museum science department: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science.html - Conservation Cocktails by Amanda Richards: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/arichards123/conservation-cocktails/ - 'Novel ways of communicating museum pest monitoring data: practical implementation’ by Christian Baars and Jane Henderson: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/129741/ - 'Standardizing and communicating IPM data’ by Jane Henderson, Christian Baars, and Sally Elizabeth Hopkins: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/129738/ Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Christina Rozeik. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2020.