Date: 14 Jun 2001
From: Morten Ryhl-Svendsen <morten.ryhl@...>
Subject: Indoor Air Pollution Working Group meeting

Indoor Air Pollution Meeting, Copenhagen: Programme

The 4th meeting of the Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) working group will
be held on November 8-9, 2001, at The National Museum of Denmark,
Copenhagen.

Professionals working with museum climate, such as conservators,
curators, architects, and conservation/university scientists, are
invited to participate. The two days programme will include
presentations of invited speakers, other presentations, and
discussions.

The (preliminary) programme includes:

"Measurement of case exchange rates and the use of such
measurements"
Hubertus Ankersmit
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage
Max Lebidinsky
Simon F. Watts, Oxford Brookes University UK

"Emission of organic acids from wooden construction materials in
a small test chamber; preliminary results of Solid Phase Micro
Extraction measurements"
Maarten van Bommel
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage

"Surface reactions of deposited NO2 in the museum environment"
Peter Brimblecombe, Michele Raychaudhuri, Derek Bowden
University of East Anglia, UK

"The ventilation of enclosures to reduce internally generated
pollutants and simple techniques to measure air exchange rates
within enclosures: report on progress to date "
Andrew Calver
Museum of London, UK

"Microclimate: a difficult variable in museums"
Dario Camuffo
National Research Council, Italy

"Particle Profiles and Filtration Efficiency in Museums"
William Esposito
Ambient Group, USA /International Society of Indoor Air
Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)

"Airborne Dust in the Museum Environment"
Jes Fenger, Kare Kemp
National Environmental Research Institute DK
Pernille Bronee, Anne Lisbeth Schmidt
National Museum of Denmark

"Air Quality Monitoring and its benefit to the preservation"
Cecily M. Grzywacz, The Getty Conservation Institute, USA

"The conservation of ceramics contaminated with acid induced
salts: necessity of a multi-disciplinary approach"
Lieve Halsberghe
La Cambre, Belgium

"Sealing and airtightness of museum storage"
Velson Horie
The Manchester Museum, UK

"Clearing the air: communicating air quality issues to museum
staff and responding to external accusations at the National
Gallery of Australia"
Janet Hughes
National Gallery of Australia

"Emission profiles from common wood based construction boards
found on the Swedish market"
Anders Karlsson
National Heritage Board, Sweden

"Measuring particulates in historic buildings: a comparison of
methodologies"
Barry Knight
English Heritage, UK

"Development of a damage assessment dosimeter using
piezoelectric quartz crystals coated with egg based films"
Marianne Odlyha, Gary M. Foster, J.M Slater
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, UK

"Recent improvements in SPME-GC/MS detection of acetic and
formic acid in air"
Morten Ryhl-Svendsen, Jens Glastrup
National Museum of Denmark

"Copper and Lead Corrosion in Carbonyl Environments"
Jean Tetreault
Canadian Conservation Institute
Emilio Cano
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalurgicas (CENIM) Spain
Maarten Van Bommel
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage
David Scott
Getty Conservation Institute
Luc Robbiola
Ecole national superieure de chimie de Paris France
Jean-Pierre Dallas
Centre d'etudes de chimie metallurgique CNRS France
Marie-Genevieve Barthes
Centre d'etudes de chimie metallurgique CNRS France

"Acid sampling collection rates"
Claire Watt
Lorraine Gibson, University of Strathclyde, UK

Further information regarding the meeting can be found at the IAP
homepage, including links for accommodation in Copenhagen, as well as
abstracts and reports from the previous three meetings:
<URL:http://hjem.get2net.dk/ryhl/iap.htm>

In order to register for the meeting please contact Morten
Ryhl-Svendsen (address below) before August 31st.

Morten Ryhl-Svendsen
National Museum of Denmark
Conservation Dept., The Laboratory
P.O. Box 260, Brede
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Denmark
+45 33 47 35 35
Fax: +45 33 47 33 27