Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: Nora Lockshin, Senior Conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, consults on preservation goals with archivists & collection managers throughout the Smithsonian and researches modern materials found in archives including plastics. #Groundbreaker
Description: Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker
Description: Forensic Anthropologist, Kari Bruwelheide solves cold cases—some as old as 10,000 years! She and her colleagues develop new ways to interpret evidence from bones and burials and are currently solving mysteries from the days of the earliest English settlements in America. #Groundbreaker
Description: Director of Collections at the Hirshhorn, Sarah Stauderman, is a paper and a/v conservator who built the first time-based media preservation suite at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker
Description: Janet Douglas, Head of Technical Studies at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, studies works of art and archaeology especially inorganic materials such as stone, jade, and metal. #Groundbreaker
Description: Wildlife physiologist Kim Terrell, at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Conservation Biology Institute, is studying how climate change impacts hellbenders, the largest salamander in North America.
Description: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Janine Brown is head of the world's largest wildlife Reproductive Endocrinology Lab, and is dedicated to improving the welfare and breeding management of endangered species. #Groundbreaker
Description: Sarah Putman, an endocrinologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Sarah Putman, a.k.a. the "Poop Sleuth," monitors the panda's feces for reproductive hormones to help time natural breeding and/or artificial inseminations
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