Lectures

These are the presentation pdf or ppt and accompanying text. More will be added before the course starts.
The lectures are not for re-distribution, since they are prepared specifically for this course and some describe commercial work in progress. They are presented here as notes for the course participants, so you don't need to take notes yourself. Several of these lectures are based on published articles listed in the bibliography, which are open access.

The fundamental concepts and units of museum microclimate (pdf, 0.5Mb)

A quirky intro to relative humidity (pdf)

Light, perception and photochemistry (pdf)

Buffering of RH by absorbent materials (pdf)

Standards and rate of deterioration (pdf picture show)

Shortened version of standards lecture (prepared for the IFLA-PAC conference, Paris, March 2009)
Standards lecture in powerpoint

Modelling the Edinburgh archive (pictures and text)

Keeping climate records (pictures and text)

Data reduction, storage and plotting(text) and as pdf

Modelling the St. Catherine's library pictures and text

Going Green lecture (pdf) A good climate need not use much energy

architecture and the importance of the building envelope pdf

the use of building materials to modify the climate pdf

limits to moisture buffer lecture note, pdf

how to reduce the use of energy in stores and archives pdf

Basic building physics for low energy climate control in museum buildings and archives lecture note, pdf

air pollution in museum environments presentation slides, pdf (7 Mb)