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In this special guest lecture, photographers, conservators, and scientists from the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) will explore the challenges of recovering and conserving a Delta Test Vehicle which was lost in Lake Ontario for nearly six decades. Additionally, they will unveil fresh insights into the Avro Arrow's coating systems, revealing how specific paints contributed to its supersonic flight capabilities, radar evasion, and enemy aircraft detection. Through industrial radiography, the audience will also discover the hidden structure within one of the last surviving Avro Arrow ejection seats.
The presentation will be moderated by Erin Secord, Ingenium's Manager of Conservation Services, and will be followed by a bilingual Q&A.
This presentation will take place in the auditorium at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.
Our Speakers:
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Kamila Bladek, Conservation Scientist
Kamila Bladek joined the Canadian Conservation Institute in 2018, where she works as a conservation scientist specializing in microscopy and the characterization of inorganic materials. She obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Calgary in 2018. Her main areas of analysis are the characterization of unknown materials, metal alloys and metal corrosion, pigment identification, detection of inorganic pesticides, non-invasive analysis of inorganic materials, and microscopic imaging.
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Mylène Choquette, Senior Scientific Documentation Technologist
Mylène Choquette graduated from La Cité collégiale with a specialization in photography in 1996. She joined the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) in 2008, where she is currently a senior scientific documentation technologist. She provides expert scientific photographic documentation services for conservation and research projects. Mylène also develops and delivers workshops and webinars in photodocumentation to heritage professionals and provides expert knowledge and advice about specialized technical imaging methods. Mylène has over 20 years of experience in specialized photography of cultural heritage objects. In 2015, Mylène certified as an industrial X-radiographer through the Natural Resources Canada National Non-Destructive Testing Certification Body.
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Maeve Moriarty, Senior Conservation Scientist
Maeve Moriarty joined the Canadian Conservation Institute in 2017 and is a senior conservation scientist. She specializes in inorganic analyses of artists’ materials and archaeological materials. Her work includes the non-invasive analysis of heritage objects by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, including pesticide analysis.
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Jennifer Poulin, Senior Conservation Scientist
Jennifer Poulin holds chemistry degrees from Acadia University (BSc Hons) and Dalhousie University (MSc). A federal government scientist since 1996, Jennifer joined the Canadian Conservation Institute in 2003 and is currently a senior conservation scientist. She is an expert in the analysis of organic materials using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Her research interests include the development of trace analysis methods, particularly for the characterization of synthetic paints and the identification of natural and synthetic dyes. She has published research on Canadian artists' materials, amber, organic residues on archaeological objects, dyes, pesticides, modern materials, and varnishes.
Kathleen Sullivan, Conservator, Archaeological Materials
Kathleen Sullivan is a conservator of archaeological materials at the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) in Ottawa. She specializes in the preservation of wet organic archaeological artifacts. Prior to joining CCI in 2018 she worked as a conservator on the USS Monitor Conservation project at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia, USA. Kathleen holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in archaeology from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and completed a Master of Art Conservation degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 2011.
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Germain Wiseman, Senior Scientific Documentation Technologist
Germain Wiseman is a Senior Scientific Documentation Technologist at CCI who specializes in cultural heritage imaging. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Since joining CCI in 2016, he has contributed greatly to the heritage field through the application and development of advanced imaging, including spectral imaging, industrial radiography, reflectance transformation imaging, and photogrammetry. Germain actively conducts workshops and webinars across Canada, sharing over a decade of expertise in cultural heritage imaging.