Alliance For Response: Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Emergency Preparedness Conference New Hampshire

 

This one-day forum invites cultural heritage leaders and emergency professionals from around the state of New Hampshire to converge and discuss local needs and best practices. This conference is part of a larger national initiative “Alliance for Response” formed in 2003 by the American Institute of Conservation with the goal of creating an integrated local network for cultural heritage institutions and emergency resources throughout each state in the US.

September 8, 2023 at Dartmouth College

Forum speakers include: 

·       Lori Foley, Heritage Emergency National Task Force, Smithsonian Institution, and Office of Environmental Planning & Historic Preservation, FEMA

·       Mary Stampone, New Hampshire State Climatologist, Associate Professor Geography, University of New Hampshire

·       Robert Buxton, Director, NH Department of Safety, Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

·       Elaina Gregg, Emergency Programs Manager, American Institute of Conservation

Steering Committee

  • Rodney Obien

    Dr. Rodney Obien is Head of Special Collections & Archives and Associate Professor at Keene State College, where he teaches in the M.A. program in History & Archives. He is a board member of the Collections Care & Conservation Alliance and serves on the advisory committee of the Northeast Conservation Document Center.

  • Brinker Ferguson

    Dr. Brinker Ferguson is a Lecturing Professor in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department and heads the "Cultural Heritage Preventative Preservation Program" in the Data Experiences + Visualizations Lab at Dartmouth College. In addition she serves as a National Heritage Responder for the American Institute of Conservation.

  • Mary Stampone

    Dr. Mary Stampone is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of New Hampshire, where she teaches undergraduate courses on weather, climate, and natural hazards and conducts research on variability and change in regional-scale climate with an emphasis on hydroclimatic hazards. She also serves as the State Climatologist for New Hampshire.

  • Alissa Helms

    Alissa M. Helms is the University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Plymouth State University, where she specializes in digital preservation and teaching with primary sources. She is a Certified Archivist (CA) and a Digital Archives Specialist (DAS), and she holds an MLIS from the University of Alabama.

  • Brian Burford

    Burford retired on December 31, 2022 from 15 years as the State Records Manager and 12 years as the NH State Archivist at the New Hampshire State Archives. He has now joined the Meshech Weare Papers project as a Senior Editor. He is also a licensed land surveyor in the State of New Hampshire.

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    Ashley Miller

    Ashley Miller is the current New Hampshire State Archivist. She studied History in undergrad at Penn State University and has a Master’s degree in History and a Master’s degree in Archival Management from Simmons College.