Program – CCAHA | Our Planet Our Collections

DAY ONE - Monday, November 14th

DAY TWO Tuesday, November 15th

9:30 am - 9:45 am	Introduction Michelle Eisenberg, CCAHA Acting Director Hope Kandel, Executive Producer of Learning Times

9:45 am - 10:00 am	Announcements Dyani Feige, CCAHA Director of Preservation Services

10:00 am - 10:30 am	Moderated by Dyani Feige, CCAHA Director of Preservation Services
	Climate Change, Collecting, and Future Research John Simmons, Writer and Museum Consultant at Museologica; Associate Curator of Collections at Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery of Penn State University; and Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima

10:30 am - 11:00 am	Nature / Culture Systems: Partners in a Future with a Changing Climate Sarah Sutton, Co-founder and CEO of Environment & Culture Partners (ECP) and Co-chair of American Institute for Conservation’s Climate Crisis Working Group of the Held in Trust Initiative [PRE-RECORDED VIDEO]

11:00 am - 11:15 am	BREAK

11:15 am - 11:45 am	Lead To Change: How Natural History Collections Can Impact Collection Care Mariana Di Giacomo, PhD, Natural History Conservator at the Yale Peabody Museum and Chair of the Conservation at Yale Steering Committee of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

11:45 am - 12:15 pm	Climate Smart Humanities Organizations: A New Opportunity from National Endowment for the Humanities Tatiana Ausema, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm	LUNCH

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm	Moderated by Joanna Hurd, CCAHA Associate Paper Conservator
	Influencing Exhibition Design through Preventive Conservation: Maximizing Scientific Utility of Natural Science Collections Rebecca A. Kaczkowski, Preventive Conservator at the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	The Pollution Solution: Archival Collections about Recycling Harrison Wick, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	BREAK

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Moderated by Chloe Houseman, CCAHA Paper Conservator
	SPECIMEN: Exploring the Natural History of a Historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Prison Greg Cowper, Entomologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Coming Full Circle: Bioplastics and the Problem of Designed Decay Jessica Walthew, Conservator, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	What's Our Impact? Calculating the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of an Academic Research Library Ben Goldman, University Archivist, Penn State University

9:30 am - 9:45 am	Welcome Back/Announcements Dyani Feige, CCAHA Director of Preservation Services

9:45 am - 10:15 am	Moderated by Dyani Feige, CCAHA Director of Preservation Services
	History and Preservation of an American Treasure: The Plant Collection of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Richard McCourt, Professor and Curator of Botany, Director of the Center for Systematic Biology and Evolution, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science [PRE-RECORDED VIDEO]

10:15 am - 10:45 am	Cancelled The Lady Franklin Bay Collection: Historically Tracking Climate Change Lacey Flint, Archivist and Curator of Research Collections at The Explorers Club

10:45 am - 11:00 am	BREAK

11:00 am - 11:45 am	Sustaining Campus Mounds at Beloit College, a panel talk Nicolette B. Meister, Director of and NAGPRA Coordinator for the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College; Chair of the Museum Studies Program; and Faculty Director of the Center for Collections Care William “Nąąwącekǧize” Quackenbush, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer and Cultural Resources Division Manager for the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin Shannon M. Fie, Professor of Anthropology at Beloit College and faculty sponsor of the Campus Mounds Sustainability and Advocacy Initiative (CMSAI) Elaina Heaton, B.A. in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Beloit College, 2022 Julia Hwang, B.A. in Anthropology and Museum Studies from Beloit College, 2022

11:45 am - 1:00 pm	LUNCH

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Moderated by Maddie Cooper, CCAHA Preventive Conservator
	Evolving Approaches: The Organic Materials Study Collection at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Lara Kaplan (she/her), Objects Conservator, Winterthur Museum and Affiliated Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Preservation Best Practices and Scientific Arrangement: Environmental Monitoring in a Victorian Science Museum that Maintains the “Systematic” Scheme Susan Glassman, Director, Wagner Free Institute of Science

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm	BREAK

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Moderated by Chloe Houseman, CCAHA Paper Conservator
	Creating a Multifaceted Model for Advancing Sustainability Julianne Snider, Director, Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery, Penn State

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Recording NOW AVAILABLE" Expanding the Narratives of Our Climate Emergency: A Case Study with the National Park Service Donna Graves, Independent Historian and Urban Planner

Sustainability in Diorama Construction, Claire Dean, Curatorial Assistant, Natural Science Collections at the Tulle House and Preventive Conservation MA Student
(More) Sustainable Choices in Collections Care, Moya Dumville, Risk Analysis Advisor/PaperConservator and Robert Waller, President and Senior Risk Analyst, Protect Heritage
Sustainability 360, Association of Registrars and Collections Managers
Storytelling for Palaeoecological Collections: Preserving and Interpreting Microscopic Specimens to Understand a Changing Environment, Eleonora Sermoneta: Adult Learning Programmer / Diana Tirlea: Assistant Curator of Quaternary Environments, Royal Alberta Museum
Using Art to Tell a Story about Climate Crisis, J. Henry Fair, Photographer
Climate Change and Collections – A Stronghold into the Future, Tasha James, Curatorial Technician, Australian National Herbarium (ANH)

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