Graduate student Ian describes the process called reflectance transformation imaging that he used to document timbers from Queen Anne's Revenge.
   
    
    Elise sums up our progress and highlights for 2024
   
    
    Elise shares our recent experiences out and about in the community, assisting with identifying elemental composition of other collections
   
    
    Finally ready for drying, timbers from site 31CR314 (La Concorde/Queen Anne's Revenge) make a trip to Maryland for special treatment
   
    
    It was a busy year in the lab, with a lot accomplished!
   
    
    Cannon are unloaded using special tools and a lot of patience
   
    
    Terry describes the process of cleaning out the bore of a cannon
   
    
    Elise shares her recent conservation project
   
    
    Conservators from QAR analyze books suspected to be arsenic-laced
   
    
    
  
  
              
      
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