1 8 - 2 1 O C T O B E R , S T O C K H O L M
Program
1 8 - 2 1 O C T O B E R , S T O C K H O L M
P r o g r a m
j o i n t l y o r g a n i z e d b y :
Chemistry and Preservation of waterlogged wooden shiPwreCks
18-21 octoberstockholm
Welcome t o our r eg i s t ra t i on d e sk and th e Ge t - t og e th e r
r e c e p t i on
tuesday
tuesday
t u e s d a yo C t o b e r 1 8 t h w e l C o m e t o s h i P w r e C k s 2 0 1 1
16.00-18.00 Registration desk open for registration
18.00- 19.30 Get-together reception, Roy. Inst. of Technology
wednesday
Sessions:“Casestudies” and “Bacterial and Chemical Processes and
Their Detection”
Sessions: “Casestudies” and “Detection
of Degradation Processes”
wednesday
w e d n e s d a yo C t o b e r 1 9 t h
08.00-08.30Registration desk open for registration
08.30-09.00Welcome, practical details Björn Varenius and Monica Ek
C a s e s t u d i e s
k e y n o t e 09.00-09.45
Chair: Per Hoffmann, Ingrid Hall Roth From the Skuldelev to the Roskilde Ships – 50 years of shipwreck conservation at the National Museum of Denmark Dr Poul Jensen, conservators Anette Hjelm-Pedersen and Kristiane Straetkvern – National Museum of Denmark
09.45-10.15The Batavia – Past, current and future conservation Dr Ian Godfrey, Western Australian Museum
b r e a k 10.15-10.45 Coffee/tea break
10.45-11.15The first five years and future perspectives of Yenkapi shipwrecks projectProfessor Ufuk Kocabaş, University of Istanbul, Turkey
11.15-11.45Microbial degradation in the 18th century shipwreck Vrouw MariaDr Kari Steffen, University of Helsinki, Finland
11.45-12.15The Swash Channel wreck in situ protection and preservationDr Paola Palma, Bournemouth university, UK
l u n C h 12.15-13.45 Lunch
Case studies: deteCtion of degradation ProCesses
k e y n o t e 13.45-14.30
Chair: Kristiane Straetkvern, Hartmuth Kutzke
The waterlogged wood of the shipwrecks found in Pisa (Italy) - diagnosis and conservationDr. Gianna Giachi, Soprintendenza Per I Beni Archeologici Della Toscana, Italy
14.30-15.15Study of bacterial wood degradation based on laboratory Microcosm-experimentsDr Jana Gelbrich, German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven
b r e a k 15.15-15.45 Coffee/tea break
15.45-16.15
Characterization of waterlogged archaeological wood with UV-microspectrophotometryConservator Nanna Bjerregaard-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
16.15-16.45
Characterization of archaeological waterlogged wood by nuclear magnetic resonance and gel permeation chromatographyDr Marco Orlandi, University of Milano, Italy
16.45-17.15Analytical pyrolysis techniques to evaluate the degradation of archaeological waterlogged woodProfessor Maria Perla Colombini, University of Pisa, Italy
17.15-17.45Wooden foundations in Venice: A preliminary studyDr Nicola Macchioni, CNR, Venice, Italy
r e C e P t i o n 18.30- ReceptionMaritime Museum - Presentation of the newly discovered shipwreck ”MARS”, lost in battle with the Danish fleet in the Baltic Sea in 1564
thursday
Sessions:“Vasastudies” and
“Degradation, Envir onment, Pr eser vation”
thursday
thursdaythursday
t h u r s d a yo C t o b e r 2 0 t h
08:00-08:30 Registration desk open
v a s a s t u d i e s
08.30-09.00
Chair: Poul Jensen, Marika Hedin
Ten years of Vasa research – Review and outlookProfessor Lars Ivar Elding, The Vasa Museum, Stockholm
k e y n o t e 09.00-09.45
X-ray spectroscopy reveals the chemistry of waterlogged archaeological woodProfessor Ingmar Persson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
09.45-10.15Hierarchical structure of oak wood from the Swedish warship Vasa Professor Ritva Serimaa, University of Helsinki, Finland
b r e a k 10.15-10.45 Coffee/tea break
10.45-11.15
State of damage in Vasa oak – mechanical properties and molar mass of celluloseProfessor Lars Berglund, KTH Roy. Inst. of Technology, Stockholm
11.15-11.45
Degradation reactions in Vasa woodDr Tommy Iversen and Dina Dedic, KTH Roy. Inst. of Technology and Innventia, Stockholm
11.45-12.15
From creep characterization of Vasa oak towards design strategies of an improved support system for the shipProfessor Kristofer Gamstedt, University of Uppsala, Sweden
l u n C h 12.15-13.45 Lunch
d e g r a d a t i o n , e n v i r o n m e n t , P r e s e r v a t i o n
13.45-14.15
Chair: Ian Godfrey, Göran Gellerstedt
Long-term responses in archaeological wood to ambient temperature and relative humidity Case study - the Oseberg ship Dr Paolo Dionisi-Vici, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
14,15-14.30The climate-control system at the Vasa MuseumConservator Emma Hocker, The Vasa museum, Stockholm
14.30-14.45Vasa – Present day status and ongoing workMagnus Olofsson, The Vasa Museum, Stockholm
b r e a k 14.45-15.15 Coffee / tea break
15.15-15.45Consumption of oxygen by conserved archaeological woodDr Martin N. Mortensen, National Museum of Denmark
15.45-16.15
The behaviour of alum in alum-conserved wooden objectsDr Hartmut Kutzke, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway
16.15-16.45
Alum-treated wood: characterization using infrared spectroscopy and solid state NMRConservator Susan Braovac, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway
d i n n e r 19:00 Conference dinner at the Vasa Museum
d e m o n s t r a t i o n Demonstration of bolt exchange on the ship
friday
Ses s i on : “Nove l Methods and
Conso l i dan t s”
friday
f r i d a yo C t o b e r 2 1 s tn o v e l m e t h o d s a n d C o n s o l i d a n t s
k e y n o t e 09.00-09.45
Chair: Monica Ek, Jana Gelbrich
Hydroxide nanoparticles for deacidification of archaeological woodProfessor Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, Italy
09.45-10.15New consolidants in wood conservationDr. Giacomo Cipriani, University of Florence, Italy
b r e a k 10.15-10.45 Coffee / tea break
10.45-11.15
Supramolecular self-assembled Fe(III)-sequestering 3D polymer networks for the preservation of maritime archaeological woodDr Zarah Walsh, University of Cambridge, UK
11.15-11.45Bio-mimetic conservation Cellulose and chitosan for wood preservationMikkel Christensen, University of Oslo, Norway
11.45-12.15
A new protocol suitable for the treatment of composite archaeological artefacts Partial PEG treatment + freeze drying + radiation-curing resin consolidationDr Khôi Tran, ARC-Nucléart, CEA-Grenoble, France
12.15-12.45
Time- and wavelength resolved diffuse optical spectroscopy for non-invasive characterization of woodProfessor Cosimo D’Andrea, Milano University of Technology, Italy
12.45-13.00 Conference concludes
l u n C h 13.00-14.00 Lunch
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