NCPTT recently hosted Lorelle VanFossen, one of the world’s most popular bloggers, for a workshop on the art of writing for the web. VanFossen taught NCPTT employees how to connect to the Center’s audience through timely and effective content as well as search engine optimization techniques.

The workshop is part of a larger social media strategy that NCPTT is implementing to better serve the needs of the preservation field.

In the second episode of The Preservation Technology Podcast, Kevin Ammons interviews Charlie Pepper who directs the Historic Landscape Preservation and Maintenance program at the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation.

Carol Chin has joined NCPTT as a joint faculty researcher in the National Center’s Materials Research Program. The position is held in partnership with Northwestern State University of Louisiana

NCPTT staff recently presented the results of initial research on the applicability of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to copper artifact elemental composition studies at the 56th annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Historic Congressional Cemetery’s Arsenal and Macombe Monuments have been the focus of NCPTT’s recent research into cleaning technologies for grave markers.