{"id":14100,"date":"2016-03-30T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=14100"},"modified":"2016-03-30T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:48:22","slug":"ecpn-spring-webinar-pathways-into-conservation-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/03\/30\/ecpn-spring-webinar-pathways-into-conservation-science\/","title":{"rendered":"ECPN spring webinar: Pathways into Conservation Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) is pleased to announce that our next webinar \u201cPathways into Conservation Science\u201d<\/strong> will take place on Friday,<\/strong> April 22nd from 12-1pm<\/strong> (EST).
\nThe program will feature three speakers: Dr. Tom Learner, Head of Science at the Getty Conservation Institute; Dr. Gregory Smith, the Otto N. Frenzel III Senior Conservation Scientist at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; and Dr. Robyn Hodgkins, the Charles E. Culpeper Fellow in the Scientific Research Department at the National Gallery of Art. The presenters will share their own diverse training experiences, touching on the history of education in conservation science and the current pathways into the field. ECPN hopes that the webinar will\u00a0provide guidance to\u00a0individuals considering careers in conservation science, current students and post-doctorates entering the field, as well as inform emerging conservators.
\nThe format of this webinar will be Q&A style. ECPN is seeking question submissions prior to the webinar broadcast.<\/strong>\u00a0Please submit your questions as comments to this post, or contact ECPN\u2019s Professional Education and Training co-Officer, Elyse Driscoll at elysedriscoll@gmail.com<\/a>. Questions will be accepted until the morning of the webinar. Selected unanswered questions may be addressed in an AIC blog post following the webinar.
\nThis webinar is free and open to all AIC members but you must register! To register, please click here<\/a>. You will receive an email with information on how to connect to the webinar shortly before April 22nd.
\nIf you miss \u201cPathways into Conservation Science\u201d<\/strong> or wish to watch it again later, it will be recorded and uploaded onto the AIC YouTube channel<\/a>.\u00a0 For a listing of past ECPN webinars, please visit our archive<\/a> on AIC\u2019s blog Conservators Converse<\/em>, our Wiki page<\/a>, or AIC\u2019s YouTube channel.
\nAbout the Presenters:<\/strong>
\nTom Learner<\/strong>\u00a0is head of the Science Department at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI); he oversees all of the Institute’s scientific research, developing and implementing projects that advance conservation practice in the visual arts. As a GCI senior scientist from 2007 to 2013, he oversaw the Modern and Contemporary Art Research initiative, during which time he developed an international research agenda related to the conservation of modern paints, plastics, and contemporary outdoor sculpture. Before this, he served as a senior conservation scientist at Tate, London, where he developed Tate’s analytical and research strategies for modern materials and led the Modern Paints project in collaboration with the GCI and National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Dr. Learner holds a PhD in chemistry from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a diploma in the conservation of easel paintings from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
\nDr. Gregory Dale Smith <\/strong>received a B.S. degree from Centre College of Kentucky in anthropology\/sociology and chemistry before pursuing graduate studies at Duke University, where he was as a National Science Foundation graduate fellow in time-domain vibrational spectroscopy and archaeological fieldwork. He held postgraduate positions at the British Library, the V & A Museum, the National Synchrotron Light Source, and the National Gallery of Art. In 2004, Dr. Smith joined the faculty of the conservation training program at Buffalo State College as the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Conservation Science. In 2010, Dr. Smith was hired as the Otto N. Frenzel III Senior Conservation Scientist at the Indianapolis Museum of Art where he established and now operates a state-of-the-art research facility to study and preserve the museum\u2019s encyclopedic collection. Dr. Smith\u2019s research interests include undergraduate education at the Arts-Science interface, assessing pollution off-gassing of museum construction materials, and understanding the chemical degradation of artists\u2019 materials. Greg is a Professional Associate of the AIC and has served as an associate editor of JAIC for the past 10 years.
\nDr. Robyn Hodgkins<\/strong> is the Charles E. Culpeper Fellow in the Scientific Research Department at the National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington, DC. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before starting at the NGA, Dr. Hodgkins completed a conservation science internship at Tate Britain, and conservation science fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of the American Indian, and the Smithsonian\u2019s Museum Conservation Institute. Dr. Hodgkins\u2019 interests include understanding the effect of environmental conditions and pollutants on museum objects and artists\u2019 materials using corrosion studies and environmental monitoring, and developing methods for the identification of paint constituents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) is pleased to announce that our next webinar \u201cPathways into Conservation Science\u201d will take place on Friday, April 22nd from 12-1pm (EST). The program will feature three speakers: Dr. Tom Learner, Head of Science at the Getty Conservation Institute; Dr. Gregory Smith, the Otto N. Frenzel III Senior Conservation … Continue reading “ECPN spring webinar: Pathways into Conservation Science”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":11208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,38],"tags":[295,378,1068],"class_list":["post-14100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservationeducation","category-ecpn","category-research-materials-techniques","tag-conservation-science","tag-ecpn-2","tag-webinar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}