Academic Professional ActivitiesManagement of the Conservation LaboratoryManages 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 andor 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 CollectionsDetermines 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 Divisions 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 ASMscollections 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 ActivitiesParticipatesin ASMs educational outreach initiatives including community presentationstours 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 masters 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 OutreachServes 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 museumandor conservation organizations.