Accessible Heritage project

The University College London (UCL) Centre for Sustainable Heritage
is delighted to announce the start of a new project on long-term
monitoring of heritage environments: "Accessible Heritage". The
three-year post-doctoral project is funded by UK Science and
Heritage Programme. The project aims at developing an international
heritage environment monitoring tool and web-based management
support system. The system will be specifically designed to be
robust, long-life and autonomously deployable, with particular focus
on remote areas from where environmental records are currently
lacking. This project is a collaboration with UCL Department of
Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the London Centre for
Nanotechnology and English Heritage, World Heritage and
International Policy.

As one of the first steps, an international map of heritage
environments is planned and managers and conservators are invited to
participate in this survey. Following your agreement, we will send
you easily deployable pollution monitors, to be exposed for four
weeks, at no cost. The collected data will provide the participants
with key data on the level of local pollution, and enable the
researchers to understand the presumably large range of environments
that need to be monitored, on a global scale. Despite resource
limitations, we are keen to have as many sites included as possible.

Please visit

    <URL:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
        sustainableheritage/accessibleheritage.htm>

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for more information or if you wish to participate in the study, do
not hesitate to contact Dr Henoc Agbota <t.agbota<-at->ucl<.>ac<.>uk>

Dr Henoc Agbota
Research Fellow
University College London
Centre for Sustainable Heritage
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
+44 20 7679 5622 ext. 45622
Fax: +44 20 7916 1887
Mobile: +44 79 6790 7694


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