Lab History

2002-present     USS Monitor Advisory Committee - Mariner's Museum, Norfolk, VA. 

2001     Consultant for the setup of 67 ton Chief Wawatam Triple Expansion Steam Engine, Wisconsin State Maritime Museum.

    2001     Windfield Scott Archaeological Site - Artifact Conservation, National Park Service. Fully loaded 16th century cannon(On loan to Elizabeth II State Historic Site) Unloading a cannon can be tricky business. This late 16th century falcon posed many obstacles to treatment but eventually revealed a full load of grape and round shot encased within a canvas bag. The powder from this 400 year old cannon was still dry.    

1998-2000     Santa Elena 16th Century Archaeological Site (Artifact Conservation, South Carolina Institute of Anthropology and Archaeology)     The Santa Elena site offered the earliest historic artifacts yet conserved at the ECU laboratory. Yet prehistoric artifacts are subject to the same breakdown and decomposition that afflicts historic artifacts and must be stabilized before long term storage.    

1994-1998     Land Tortoise. Produced wood analysis and treatment procedures for the stabilization of gunport covers of this unusual French and Indian War era warship. This French and Indian War vessel may be the earliest purpose built warship in North America. The Gun port lid (pictured) offered peculiar obstacles to conservation in the form of iron stains imbedded in the wood. These stains left on any organic material, cloth, or wood, will eventually break down the artifact.  

1993     Norfolk Naval Museum - 18 th century ship's anchor. 

1990     Virginia Commonwealth - Revolutionary War artifacts.