While working in museum collections storage spaces I have completed a number of collections moves, worked on future storage space assessments, used  3D modeling software  for designing and planning future spaces, and conducted environmental monitoring and pest monitoring (IPM). 

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Some notable projects:

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At the University of Colorado I was the graduate student collections assistant on the move of the entire mammology and osteology collections. This move included handling 18,000+ specimens. As an intern at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology I assisted with imaging, packaging, and tracking objects during the move of the entire archaeology collection.

 

I have been responsible for maintaining a regular housekeeping routine of vacuuming, pest monitoring (IPM), pest identification, and environmental monitoring with dataloggers (hygrothermographs, HOBOs, and PEM2s). I have also conducted and designed special monitoring projects oriented at narrowing the source of an infestation, determining environmental conditions in a new room in advance of a collections move, and testing the effectiveness and calibration of different types of dataloggers.​

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As part of my  master's thesis project  on basketry collections preservation I conducted an extensive storage space assessment of the entire basketry collection (hundreds of objects) in preparation for a future move. This included determining the space needed for the collection to expand, determining shelving needs, determining costs, and proposing a move plan that would best suit the collections needs. This move plan was later implemented and the collection's storage has been greatly improved.  I also produced a detailed guide and a  pamphlet  to assist others with similar projects.

 

In a course in advanced collections management I was tasked with

 designing a new storage area  and work space for the collections of the Heritage Center at the University of Colorado. Given some existing specifications, I created multiple storage planning scenarios using both open shelving and compactors. I also developed budgets and cost proposals for each scenario to argue for efficiency. This task also necessitated a thorough visual presentation to the client using the 3D modeling program SketchUp.