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Throughout the United States, NCPTT has undertaken important and varied work to advance the preservation of cultural resources. Partners in government, private practice, tribes, museums, universities and non-profits are important collaborators in nearly all that NCPTT has accomplished. This list summarizes NCPTT’s work through the PTTGrants and PTTProjects programs.

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) developed the Architectural Records Symposium: Managing and Preserving Design Records to improve practices for preserving and providing access to architectural records in museums, archives, libraries, and historic sites throughout the country. THe Symposium took place at the Chicago History Museum on July 16 and 17, 2007. The sessions were tailored to meet the training needs of staff in small and large institutions on both theoretical and practical levels. Participants learned about the significance of architectural records; the array of materials and methods used to create them, from the earliest processes to those in use today; collecting policies; appraisal; intellectual control; preventive and remedial preservation measures; innovations in conservation treatment; methods of access; reformatting; and management of electronic files. Download 2008-03: Architectural Records Conference
(PDF, 775KB)

September 16-20, 2008, San Francisco
Registration Deadline: August 12, 2008

Presented by The National Center for Preservation Technology & Training and The Presidio Trust

Archeology on a Deeper Level

Geophysical techniques like radar, magnetometry, conductivity, and resistivity are fast becoming essential archeological skills. They can augment traditional documentation methods, target features for excavation, and minimize expense, site destruction and reconnaisance time.

Our expert instructors will guide you in an intensive learning experience that integrates concepts, data collection, excavation, and interpretation. The historic military post, El Presidio de San Francisco, will be your testing ground.

Scanning the Land: Skills Training in Geophysical Techniques

Armed with the Presidio’s robust GIS database, expert instructors demonstrate the unique ability of geophysical equipment to identify buried sites and site features rapidly and non-destructively. NCPTT challenges traditional pedagogy by making you an active, engaged research partner!

Moving the Earth: Learning by Testing

Most courses end with data collection. But what did it all mean? To learn what it is that caused the signals you must move the earth! Select anomalies will be excavated so that participants can learn just what features create their remotely sensed data. Join NCPTT and the Presidio Trust in an unparalleled opportunity to interpret remote sensing data through the lenses of archival, historical, and archaeological data gathered by the Presidio Archaeology Center over decades of research.

Distance Learning: Geophysics from Home

Afterwards the results will be organized and presented on the Internet in cooperation with the Presidio Trust. You will have the leisure to match your survey notes against the photos, excavation records, and GIS data generated through your efforts and those of the NCPTT and Presidio Trust’s archeological staff. Go to our website now to see results from 2006, and in February to see results from 2007.

Stace Miller, a longtime undergraduate intern at NCPTT, received a B.S. in chemistry and an B.S. in Math from Northwestern State University of Louisiana on May 9. She graduates Magna Cum Laude. Stace devoted two and a half years to NCPTT research, including comparative evaluation of cleaning methods for marble gravemarkers and the setup of a laser facility. Her work for NCPTT led to an undergraduate thesis and graduation with distinction. She enters pharmacy school this fall at the University of Colorado, Denver.