Collection surveys:
- Assessing the collections of the Royal College of Surgeons (including the Hunterian Museum) to provide methodologies,
costs and timings for a possible decant project.
- Assessing the storage needs of a large county museum collection ‘for now and for the future’.
- Conservation assessment of a large collection of historically and scientifically important ichthyosaur fosils (The Alfred Gillet Trust, Street).
- Advising on the curation, storage and display of recently excavated archaeological material for the Trang An Landscape Complex UNESCO World Heritage Site in Vietnam.
- Undertaking a conservation assessment of the famous La Cotte de St Brelade fauna (Woolly Mammoths and Woolly Rhino etc) for Jersey Heritage.
- Assessing a large offsite geological store to provide methodologies, costs and timings for decanting and re-storing the collection.
- Assessing a large offsite museum store containing hundreds of thousands of archaeological and anthropological specimens to provide methodologies, costs and timings for decanting and re-storing the collection.
- Reviewing and identifying hundreds of fossils for Abingdon County Hall Museum, Oxfordshire, and designing an exhibition.
- Reviewing and identifying a thousand fossils for Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
- Undertaking a Conservation Assessment Survey of the geological collections at the University of Bangor.
- Undertaking a conservation assessment of the collections at the Lapworth Museum of Geology at Birmingham University to provide methodologies, costs and timings for decanting and re-storing the collections.
- Assessing skeletons on display in The University of Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology to provide methodology and costs for decanting during proposed refurbishment.
- Advising Colchester and Ipswich Museums in regards to packing, moving and re-storing their natural history collections (approx. 500,000 specimens).
- Assessing the preventive and remedial conservation needs of the Palaeontology collection at Doncaster Museum, and providing advice regarding recuration and storage.
- Collections surveys and 'Collection Level Descriptions'.
- Conservation survey of the geology collections of Dorset County Museum and undertaking certain conservation projects
- Collection survey for York Museums Trust.
- Assessing and describing the geology collection at St Albans Museum Service (over 4,000 specimens)
- Assessing and describing the geology collection at Hitchin Museum Resource Centre (over 5,000 specimens)
- Recent Conservation Surveys
Using infrared thermal imaging to analyse museum environments:
The preparation, conservation and mounting of Jurassic and Cretaceous fossil reptiles etc:
- Conserving and mounting a 12m-long Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton (20percent real bones, 80 percent casts) for display at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham.
- Preparing a pterosaur skeleton found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, for Edinburgh University.
- Mounting an 8m-long fossil Pliosaur skeleton for display at Bristol City Museum, including replicating and mounting the 2m-long skull.
- Preparing the only known dinosaur bone from the Isle of Eigg, Scotland, for Edinburgh University.
- PDF poster: 'The discovery of a rare neonate Ichthyosaurus communis skeleton at the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the research to determine its lost provenance'.
- A partial ichthyosaur skeleton from Skye reassembled, conserved and prepared for Edinburgh University and National Museums Scotland.
- Dismantling the large wall-mounted Wilmcote plesiosaur skeleton at Warwick Museum.
- Cleaning, conserving and preparing the skeleton of Warwick Museum’s Wilmcote plesiosaur, plus CT scanning the skull for research and moulding the whole skeleton to produce a painted cast for display.
- Cleaning, dismantling and reconstructing a 3.5m long ichthyosaur skeleton for the Thinktank Museum, Birmingham, inlcuding CT scanning, microCT scanning and 3D printing bones.
- PDF Poster 'The discovery in a museum collection of the largest known skeleton of Ichthyosaurus in the world and its redisplay, including 3D-printing missing bones'.
- Restoration of the Victorian geology gallery at Biddulph Grange (National Trust property) near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
- Delivering training in palaeontological preparation and conservation techniques for a week at Peterborough Museum.
- Conserving and remounting a framed ichthyosaur for the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University.
- PDF poster about conserving, preparing and investigating a new species of Jurassic ichthyosaur, presented at the SVPCA (Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy)meeting in York in September 2014.
- Conserving and recording a large Ichthyosaurus forelimb about to be described and published.
- Cleaning, conserving, repairing and remounting a complete ichthyosaur skeleton for Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service.
- Conserving a framed teleosaur skull from the Liassic of Whitby.
- Conserving the ‘Spilsby ichthyosaur’.
- Preparation of a small fossil fish to remove as much matrix as possible to ready it for Micro-CT scanning and research.
- Repairing and installing an articulated Pteranodon skeleton, hanging from the ceiling.
- The preparation of strange fossil material for the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team and Lyme Regis Museum.
- PDF poster of the above project: preparation of strange fossil material for the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team and Lyme Regis Museum.
- The remedial conservation of specimens suffering from pyrite decay, and designing relevant preventive conservation protocols.
- The conservation of a 7ft long ichthyosaur skeleton at Wells and Mendip Museum.
- Conserving and remounting a plesiosaur skeleton for the Hunterian Museum, and changing the metal mount
- Preparing and conserving an important six-foot long Plesiosaur skeleton for Somerset Museum
- Repairing, conserving and remounting an Edmontosaurus skeleton for the National Museums of Northern Ireland
- Conserving fossil marine reptiles for Dorset Museum in Dorchester
- Conserving a complete ichthyosaur skeleton for a private collector
- Conserving and remounting an ichthyosaur skeleton for Kings Lynn Museum
- Dismantling a large wall-mounted ichthyosaur skeleton for the Hancock Museum, Newcastle
- Conserving and preparing geological and palaeontological material at the Natural History Museum, London
- Mounting the skull of a large pliosaur, and undertaking some preparation
- The investigation, conservation and remounting of a large ichthyosaur for Dorset County Museum
- The cleaning, conservation and repair of a very large Titanites ammonite
- The cleaning, repair and conservation of the huge Ichthyosaurus crassimanus skeleton prior to its redisplay in York Museum
The preparation, conservation and mounting of Mammoths, Giant Deer and other fossil mammals:
- 3D printing and mounting a replica of a fragile Woolly Mammoth tusk for Worcester Museum and Art Gallery.
- Cleaning, conserving and mounting a mammoth tusk for the Cole Museum of Zoology.
- 3D scanning the skeleton of a Roman-age dog, 3D printing replicas of the bones and mounting these replicas as an articulated skeleton.
- Liberating a Woolly Mammoth skull from its polyurethane fieldjacket for Jersey Heritage.
- Cleaning, conserving and mounting a large fragile Steppe Mammoth tusk for Nottingham's Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall.
- Cleaning, conserving and mounting a Woolly Mammoth tusk for Worcestershire Archaeology.
- The conservation of a giant deer (‘Irish Elk’, Megaloceros giganteus) skull and antlers at Caledon, Northern Ireland.
- Cleaning, conserving and re-mounting the giant deer skull and antlers at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.
- Assessing, cleaning, conserving, repairing and remounting two sets of Giant Deer skulls and antlers for Mount Stewart National Trust property, Northern Ireland.
- Conserving a portion of woolly mammoth tusk for Stoke Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
- Preparing, conserving and creating permanent storage media for Mammoth material for Bradford University
- Conserving a badly damaged giant deer skeleton for Durham University
- Making a new mount for a narwhal tusk for the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL
- Cleaning, repairing and re-mounting a large giant deer skeleton for Edinburgh Museum
- The cleaning, extensive repair, remounting and installation of an historically important Giant Deer for National Museums Scotland.
- The West Runton Elephant Conservation Project, for Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service
- Cleaning and conserving a giant deer skull and antlers, and modelling-in the missing tines
- Repairing, conserving and remounting a giant deer skeleton for the National Museums of Northern Ireland
- The repair, stabilisation and mounting of a small mammoth tusk
- The preparation of a large Pleistocene Bovid skull and horn cores
- The cleaning, repair, conservation and mounting of a Giant Irish Deer skull and antlers for the National Museums of Northern Ireland
- The conservation, cleaning and preparation of Pleistocene fossil mammal specimens from Southfleet Road 'elephant site'
The cleaning, conservation and repair of osteological specimens and other natural history specmens:
- The cleaning, conservation and mounting of a 12 metre-long fin whale skeleton for the Tullie House Museum, Carlisle.
- PDF of a poster about de-mounting and cleaning a 71ft-long, 150-year-old, Finback whale skeleton and excavating a similar sized 6,000 year old baleen whale, presented at the SVPCA (Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy) meeting in York in September 2014
- 'Japanese Tissue: some uses in osteological conservation'. PDF of a poster presented at NatSCA's Bone Day conference, 'Bone collections: using, conserving and understanding osteology in museums', 8th September 2015.
- The cleaning, conservation and remounting of a rare Quagga skeleton (Equus quagga quagga) for the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology.
- The cleaning, conservation and repair of a large tortoise for UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology.
- The cleaning, conservation and repair of a python skeleton for UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology.
- The cleaning, conservation and remounting of the Asian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) skull and horns at the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL.
- Cleaning, repairing and rebuilding a large broken Aepyornis egg.
- Cleaning scrimshaw on a dolphin skull, for the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology.
- The conservation assessment of a mounted 70ft long finback whale skeleton, and advising on its cleaning, dismantling and remounting.
- The cleaning, conservation and dismantling of a 70 foot long Finback Whale skeleton in Cambridge, England.
- Moving the 2.5 tonne Finback whale skull again in Cambridge, England.
- The cleaning, repair and remounting of a badly damaged skeleton of a Heavy-Footed Moa, for Leeds Museums.
- The cleaning of two whalebone arches for the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh
- The cleaning and repair of skulls and skeletons in the Museum of Anatomy, Edinburgh.
- Repairing the skeleton of "Bowed Joseph"
- Cleaning the skeleton of Burke "The Bodysnatcher and Murderer"
- Cleaning the skeletons and skulls of modern elephants for Edinburgh University
- Conservation of geological and osteological specimens for display for the Thinktank museum in Birmingham
- Cleaning, packing and moving a 115 year-old taxidermied adult male orangutan awkwardly stuck in a very fragile old nest of leaves. In a tree. With other nests.
- Dismantling and packing a very large diorama for the University of Cambridge Zoology Museum.
- The cleaning, conservation and repair of corals, molluscs and other specimens for an exhibition in Sheffield
Making or changing mounts for skeletons and other specimens:
- The cleaning, conservation and mounting from scratch a large Asian elephant skeleton for Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.
- Cleaning, conserving and mounting a mammoth tusk for the Cole Museum of Zoology.
- Cleaning, conserving and mounting from scratch a Moa skeleton from New Zealand.
- Mounting a giraffe skeleton for Marwell Zoo in Hampshire.
- 3D printing and mounting a replica of a fragile Woolly Mammoth tusk for Worcester Museum and Art Gallery.
- The cleaning, conservation and mounting of a 12 metre-long fin whale skeleton for the Tullie House Museum, Carlisle.
- Cleaning, conserving and mounting a camel skeleton for Sheffield Museums, including replicating missing bones.
- Cleaning and remounting a porpoise skeleton for Portsmouth City Museum.
- cleaning, conserving and re-mounting a rhino skeleton, for the Grant Museum of Zoology (University College London).
- Mounting the hind leg bones of a subfossil cave lion for Buxton Museum & Art Gallery.
- Cleaning and remounting a mole skeleton for Portsmouth City Museum.
- Cleaning, repairing and remounting three primate skeletons for the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology.
- Making a new metal mount to securely hold a narwhal tusk to a wall, for the Grant Museum of Zoology (University College London).
- Securing to the wall a large plaster cast of a pike caught by Ted Hughes, for Cambridge University.
- The cleaning, repair and remounting of a badly damaged skeleton of a Heavy-Footed Moa, for Leeds Museums.
- Conserving and remounting a plesiosaur skeleton for the Hunterian Museum, and changing the metal mount
- Cleaning, repairing and re-mounting a large giant deer skeleton for Edinburgh Museum
- The investigation, conservation and remounting of a large ichthyosaur for Dorset County Museum
- The cleaning, extensive repair, remounting and installation of an historically important Giant Deer for National Museums Scotland.
- Conserving and remounting an ichthyosaur skeleton for Kings Lynn Museum
- The conservation and repair of a late 19th Century whalebone arch in Dorset.
- Conserving fossil marine reptiles for Dorset Museum in Dorchester
- Making supportive mounts for the Holme Timber Circle - 'Seahenge'
- The repair, stabilisation and mounting of a small mammoth tusk
The preparation, conservation and/or mounting of fossil trees:
The preparation and conservation of Late Miocene fossils in Abu Dhabi:
Palaeontological conservation in the field, and organising fieldwork logistics:
The conservation of whalebone arches:
Moulding and casting natural history specimens, making 3D printed replicas and modelmaking:
Conserving information and making it accessable by creating searchable databases of natural history collections:
Examples of Training courses:
