CONSERVATION TRAINING OPPORTUNITY Cape Espenberg, Alaska
June 23, 2017 to August 15, 2017 OVERVIEW The Cape Espenberg Birnirk Project is looking for a graduate student in objects conservation to join the 2017 excavation in northwest Alaska, USA from mid-June to mid-August. This is a volunteer position with travel and accommodation costs provided. POSITION This international project is led by Dr. Claire Alix (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne) and Dr. Owen Mason (INSTAAR, Univ. of Colorado) and is funded by the US National Science Foundation and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEADI). The student will assist conservator Susanne Grieve in the field and participate in the excavation of a wooden house dated to the end of the first millennium AD (Birnirk culture). Activities will include stabilizing artifacts (both in situ and in the field laboratory), cataloguing and registration including digital documentation and packaging materials for transportation to the University of Alaska Fairbanks where they will be conserved and curated while under study. The student will work with a variety of material types (including wood, ivory, bone, antler, leather, baleen and lithics) and gain conservation experience in an Arctic environment with frozen materials. They will work with a professional conservator and multidisciplinary team of experts in a collaborative atmosphere. REQUIREMENTS Current student or recent graduate (within 5 years) of a cultural heritage conservation program or related field of study. Ability to perform job related functions such as lifting 30 pounds and maneuvering in an archaeological environment. Excellent working knowledge of English. Must be willing to spend eight weeks in camping conditions with accommodation in an individual tent and contribute to occasional camp chores. APPLICATIONS To apply or for more information, please contact Claire Alix at claire.a...@univ-paris1.fr<mailto:claire.a...@univ-paris1.fr> or Susanne Grieve at artifactpreservat...@hotmail.com<mailto:artifactpreservat...@hotmail.com>. Please include a current CV in English before June 1, 2017. ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to consdistlist-le...@cool.conservation-us.org Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/consdistlist@cool.conservation-us.org/
