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Journal · field notes · technical pieces

What we’re thinking about, written down.

The journal is what we publish between cases. Field notes from the trucks, technical write-ups from the shop, occasional opinion pieces on a question the trade is wrestling with. We aim for one piece a month; some months we miss.

  1. 042Dew point as a protocolWhy we do not let our junior engineers sketch a setpoint regime without first opening the IPI Dew Point Calculator on a separate monitor2026‑04‑22 · 2,140 wd→
  2. 041Storing the unstorable: a mixed-media roomA 2024 commission for a 380-piece mixed-media collection — cellulose nitrate next to bronze, paper next to glass plate. What we settled on, and why2026‑03‑11 · 2,860 wd→
  3. 040Why we walk every site between Christmas and New Year’sThe annual seven-site cold-snap walk-through, written up the way we file it — as a daybook entry, not a service report2026‑01‑30 · 1,540 wd→
  4. 039A note on stop-work eventsThe 2025 retrospective on every stop-work event we declared; what we learned and what we didn’t · forthcomingdraft · 2026‑Q3·
  5. 038Reading a 2018 ribbon in 2026Eight years of Conserv data from one site, what it tells us about envelope decay · forthcomingdraft · 2026‑Q3·
  6. 037Sustainable Climate Strategies for Cultural Heritage at three years inA working note for the AIC SCS group · forthcomingdraft · 2026‑Q4·
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References

  1. AIC News. aic-faic.org/about-us/news.
  2. Image Permanence Institute. imagepermanenceinstitute.org.
  3. Conserv blog. conserv.io/blog.
  4. Cool Conservation OnLine, the long-running conservation listserv archive. cool.culturalheritage.org.
  5. NPS Conserve O Gram. nps.gov.
  6. Getty Conservation Institute, GCI bulletin. getty.edu.