Other Projects

  • Determining the species of silks and wools by FTIR and MS

  • Pyrolysis DART for fiber identification (with Chip Cody, JEOL)

  • Mary Washington's glued ceramics

  • Contents of Civil War-era "medicine" bottles

  • Kinetics of the reaction of TMB with heme in the presence of EDTA

  • DART-MS confirmatory test for blood in accumulated surfaces

  • Identifying the coating on a conserved wooden sculpture

  • Identifying the resin from the Carlos Museum's Old Kingdom mummy

  • Ceramic residue analysis: chocolate and toads

  • Probably another project (or five!) I'm forgetting to include...