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Academic Professional Activities 

Management of the Conservation Laboratory:

• Manages the long-term and daily activities of the Conservation Laboratory, including evaluating laboratory facilities, inventory, equipment, and procedures, and monitoring and maintaining safe working conditions and security.
• Plans, schedules, manages, budgets for, and evaluates preservation and conservation programs and projects.
• Supervises staff, students, and/or volunteers within the lab.
• Prepares budget and capital equipment requests for laboratory operations.
• Develops, maintains and implements policies, procedures and standards for activities that involve preservation (the activities that protect collections by minimizing chemical and physical deterioration and damage and that prevent loss of informational content), and conservation (preventive care and interventive treatment of objects guided by the professional Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice of the American Institute for Conservation).
• Maintains records and documentation, including condition surveys, condition reports for loans, conservation treatment reports, and technical study reports related to repatriation.

Physical Care of Collections:

• Determines priorities for preservation and engages in activities that protect the collections or individual artifacts from harm.
• Assesses conservation needs of all ASM collections including, but not limited to, preventive conservation, examination, condition assessment, materials characterization, risk assessment, documentation, and interventive conservation treatment.
• Advises on optimum environmental standards for the preservation of the collections in all areas where artifacts are located. Makes recommendations related to temperature, relative humidity, lighting, environmental stability, and air cleanliness based on established professional standards, the regional climate, and sustainability.
• Leads or collaborates on preventive conservation initiatives, including collections condition assessments, pesticides studies, storage upgrades, rehousing projects, environmental monitoring, integrated pest management, and emergency preparedness and response.
• Collaborates with the Head of Operations in investigating and implementing improvements to ensure that ASM facilities meet museum preservation standards.
• Conducts conservation-related activities in support of internal exhibitions, including condition assessments, environmental needs assessments, interventive treatments, documentation, mount-making, handling and installation, and an evaluation of security, as well as environmental monitoring for the duration of exhibition.
• Conducts conservation-related activities in support of loans for external exhibitions, including condition assessments, environmental needs assessments, interventive treatments, documentation, mount-making, preparation of guidelines for handling and installation, packing for shipping, and possible couriering.
• Conducts conservation-related activities in support of the repatriation of collections, pursuant to NAGPRA, in coordination with the Head of Collections and the Repatriation Coordinator.
• Advises and assists the Head of Collections in the establishment, implementation, review, and revision of the Collections Division's collection management policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, and priorities.
• Maintains a current knowledge of relevant laws, policies, laboratory safety standards, museum standards, and ethical issues to advise the Collections Division as it acquires, uses, lends, borrows, and disposes of collections.

Research and Creative Activities

• Conductsand publishes research that contributes to new conservation knowledge andpractices, new interventive treatments, new material or technical knowledge of ASM'scollections, or new standards for museum facilities.
• Pursuesgrants and other forms of external funding to support research on and care ofthe collections.
• Mayparticipate in exhibit development by contributing intellectual and othercreative content.

Teaching and Other Educational Activities

• Participatesin ASM's educational outreach initiatives, including community presentations,tours, and workshops designed for a variety of learners.
• Contributesguest lectures in courses at U of A and other institutions of higher learning.
• Mayteach courses in a U of A department or interdisciplinary program and supervisestudent internships and independent study.
• Mayserve on student committees for honors theses, master's theses, doctoralcomprehensive examinations, and Ph.D. dissertations.
• Communicatesconservation needs, ethics, policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, andpriorities to ASM employees, students, volunteers, and visiting researchers.
• AdvisesASM employees with curatorial authority on best practices for the physical careof collections and provides regular training that promotes the proper care ofthe collections.

Service and Outreach

• Serves on ASM and U of A committees.
• May serve as a member of the U of A HistoricPreservation Committee.
• Answersquestions and provides verbal and written advice and assistance to the public regardingpreservation and conservation matters.
• Participatesin committee work for or contributes other service through professional museumand/or conservation organizations.