The Preservation Technology Podcast

Today we join NCPTT's Jenny Hay as she speaks with Cindy Brandimarte, Director of the Historic Sites and Structures Program in the State Parks Division of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. In the first installment of this two-part series, they'll talk about the iconic landscape of the Civilian Conservation Corps and their role in the development of the Texas State Park system.

Today we join NCPTT's Jenny Hay as she speaks with Jill Cowley, Historic Landscape Architect for the Intermountain Region of the National Park Service.

Reedy serves as Director of the Laboratory for Analysis of Cultural Materials in the Center for Historic Architecture and Design at the University of Delaware. Today we are talking to Chandra about the importance of thin section petrography for conservation.

Today we join NCPTT's Jason Church as he speaks with Marshall Millet, owner of Mmars 4-D to discuss Millet's work with U.C. Davis and the KeckCAVES visualization facility.

Karen Pavelka, a lecturer in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, talks about her experiences helping to setup a conservation lab at the Cultural Recovery Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Andy DeGruchy of LimeWorks U.S. discusses the role of lime mortar and why this material is still important today.

Dr. Diana Greenlee, adjunct assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and station archaeologist at the Poverty Point National Monument, discusses dendrogeomorphology to investigate earthwork stability at Poverty Point.

Steven Gonzales, Executive Director of the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association, discusses the curriculum development and trail stewardship projects being supported by the “America’s Best Ideas” grant.

John Watson, Instruments Conservator and Associate Curator at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, discusses the special considerations of conservation when artifacts remain in use.

Aaron Lubeck, author of Green Restorations, discusses his presentation entitled, “How We Are –and Are Not– Adaptively Reusing Cities in America.”