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Disaster Response Training is Fun!

Tiffany S. Adrain
Collections Manager
University of Iowa Paleontology Repository

ABSTRACT

Last summer the University of Iowa Collections Coalition (UICC) hosted a two-day Disaster Response Workshop with the Upper Midwest Conservation Association. As well as classroom training, the workshop included a day-long "disaster scenario" where we divided into teams responsible for salvaging objects from paddling-pools filled with water. The workshop was great fun and we learned valuable lessons about teamwork and communication as well as key procedures for disaster response. As a result of our training experience, UICC plans to run regular refresher courses, and a mini Disaster Response exercise is now included in the Collection Care and Management module of the University's Museum Studies Certificate.

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Disaster Response Training is Fun!

PDF of lecture

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University of Iowa Collections Coalition

Heritage Preservation Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel

ProText React Pak

Iowa Conservation and Preservation Consortium

Minnesota Historical Society emergency salvage procedures

UI Museum of Natural History

UI Museum Studies Program

UI Paleontology Repository

Upper Midwest Conservation Association

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