Michelle Berry is a materials conservator specialising in objects conservation with a strong interest in archaeological conservation. She has worked for several years as a conservator at Museum Victoria in Melbourne where she has been responsible for the conservation of a diverse range of artefacts from the Museum's collections. When not working in Melbourne Michelle has been involved for many years as a materials conservator with the Dakhleh Oasis Project in Egypt, an interdisciplinary archaeological project which is looking at the development of human life in the Sahara. She has also worked on other archaeological sites in Thailand and in Australia.
This season at Mawson's Huts Michelle will be downloading data
from the environmental monitoring system located inside the main hut and the
work hut, continuing the monitoring program which includes timber thickness,
corrosion rates and vibration loads. Other work will focus on assessing the
types of deterioration suffered by the artefacts located inside the huts to
best determine the range of conservation treatments which can be carried out
in the new conservation lab in following seasons.
Michelle will be working with Anne McConnell, the archaeologist on the team to pull together the documentation on the Huts to prepare a long term plan for the next phase of work required to stabilise the huts. Michelle will also be working closely with Anne to work out a method for excavating ice within the hut which will both expose artefacts and their location as well as enable the documentation of the stratigraphy with in the ice layers which will provide important information the use of the huts by Mawsons team and the changes made by the various visitors to the huts over the past century.
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