March 11, 2021, 12:00 – 4:30 (GMT -5:00)
Join us for MuseumPests First Public Presentation Session. For those who haven’t already RSVP’d to receive a direct Zoom link, you can access the program via Facebook Live on the MuseumPests page. The session will be recorded and archived along with the presentations here on MuseumPests.net. Brief abstracts are posted on our Conferences page.
| SESSION 1 | 12:00 – 2:00 USA Eastern Time (GMT -5:00) |
| START TIME (GMT -5:00) |
Title and Authors |
| 12:00 | Welcome and MuseumPests introduction Matthew Mickletz, MP-WG Co-Chair |
| Block 1 | IPM IN PRACTICE |
| 12:15 | IPM at The Met During the Covid Lockdown Michael Millican, The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 12:25 | The Impact of COVID-19 on the Integrated Pest Management Program at the Worcester Art Museum Hae Min Park, Worcester Art Museum |
| 12:35 | The Mysterious Case of the Blue Feather: Keeping an Eye on Materials Approved for Museum Events Julie McInnis, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
| 12:45 | An Efficient and Pest Resistant Storage System For Adult Odonata Specimens, With Application For Other Museum Collections Claudia Copley, David C. A. Blades and Kasey Lee, Royal BC Museum |
| 12:55 | The Sports Collection of Sport Lisboa e Benfica Ana Nascimento, Sport Lisboa e Benfica Cultural Heritage |
| 1:05 | Potential Applications of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in Museum IPM Elizabeth Salmon, UCLA |
| Block 2 | RESOURCES |
| 1:15 | IPM, Protecting Our Cultural Heritage: A Survey of Collections Care Trends Eric Breitung, Lisa Goldberg, Zoe Hughs, Suzanne Ryder, Julie Unruh, Joel Voron |
| 1:25 | The Latin Bug: Launching MuseumPests.net en Español Jessica Lewinsky, Fabiana Portoni, Silvia Manrique, Beatriz Haspo, Laura Garcia-Vedrenne, María Castañeda, Christian Untoiglich, Amparo Rueda, Sandra Joyce Ramirez, Armando Mendez |
| 1:35 | FUNdamentals of Museum IPM Now Available Christa Deacy-Quinn, Spurlock Museum |
| 1:40 | Fur, Four Legs and a Tail: Update from the MuseumPests Rodent group Museum Pests Rodent Group |
| 1:50 | The Risk of Pests in Monasteries Ann Shaftel |
| 2:00 | Pest Odyssey2021 – The Next Generation Suzanne Ryder, The Natural History Museum London |
| SESSION 2 | 2:30 – 4:30 USA Eastern Time (GMT -5:00) |
| 2:30 | Welcome and MuseumPests introduction Matt Mickletz, MP-WG Co-Chair |
| Block 3 | DATA MANAGEMENT & REPORTING |
| 2:40 | Evaluation of publicly available data for GIS assay of cultural pest hazards in Canada Tom Strang and Kaoru Yui, Canadian Conservation Institute |
| 2:50 | Communicating conservation data. Example: IPM data Jane Henderson, Cardiff University and Christian Baars, National Museums Liverpool |
| 3:00 | Analysing and presenting pest occurrence data Christian Baars, National Museums Liverpool and Jane Henderson, Cardiff University |
| 3:10 | Development of the Collection Pest Database and Pest Occurrence Database Melissa King, Austin Senseman and Nathan McMinn, Conserv |
| 3:20 | At-A-Glance Reports for IPM Data Morgan Nau, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology |
| Block 4 | INSECT BEHAVIOR |
| 3:30 | Genetic variability of Gray Silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata and Ghost Silverfish C. calva in infested collections worldwide Bill Landsberger, Rathgen Research Laboratory |
| 3:40 | Native woods and their resistance to pest attack in heritage buildings Yerko Quitral, Museum of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Chile |
| Block 5 | TREATMENT |
| 3:50 | Implementation of New Nitrogen-Based Anoxic Systems at Historic New England Adam Osgood, Historic New England, Patrick Kelley, Insects Limited and Bill Smith Heritage Packaging |
| 4:00 | On-boarding an IPM freezer – a brief update Eric Breitung and Michael Millican, The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 4:10 | Freezing of a mammal collection to mitigate persistent drugstore beetles Shannen Robson, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |
| 4:20 | Concluding Remarks Rachael Arenstein, MP-WG Co-Chair |