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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Hi Megan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Sorry to hear about this emergency situation you need to deal with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">You may be right to be concerned about the possibility of RH in a cabinet high enough to cause a mold problem, especially if they are well gasketed steel cabinets. They are good at keeping unwanted moisture out but could
also keep unwanted moisture in. It should be easy to put simple hygrometers in cabinets to ensure they are not trapping moisture and leading to high RH.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I suggest you contact the New Jersey Cultural Alliance for Response (NJCAR)
<a href="http://njculturalalliance.wix.com/njcar">http://njculturalalliance.wix.com/njcar</a> for help, including some extra fans, hygrometers, and other equipment you could use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Rob</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Robert Waller, Ph.D., CAPC, FIIC<br>
President and Senior Risk Analyst<br>
Protect Heritage Corp.<br>
622 Simoneau Way<br>
Ottawa ON K4A 1P4<br>
<a href="mailto:rw@protectheritage.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">rw@protectheritage.com</span></a><br>
phone: 613-883-2707 (Canada)<br>
Research Associate, Canadian Museum of Nature<br>
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queen’s University</span><span style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> <b>
On Behalf Of </b>Megan King<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 2, 2023 10:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Chrysler Herbarium - Mycological Collection Faced Water Damage from Pipe Burst<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chrysler Herbarium - Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday right before the SPNHC conference would have begun for me in EDT, I was notified of a flood in our herbarium's mycological collection room. With the limited resources I had and the dire need to act quickly, we separated all wet
specimens and laid them to dry in a room with 2 fans, an a/c unit set to dry and 70 degree F and a dehumidifier. All the remaining specimens were moved to our main room in the herbarium and spread across tables with packets still contained in their drawers.
Some drawers that did not have any water near or within them we had to leave in the room since we ran out of space. The room which was flooded (pipe burst in the ceiling) was cleaned up and then a dehumidifier was added to the room. Our plan is to take the
specimens that got wet (majority was just the packets and not the specimen itself) and re-packet them and freeze them. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am worried I am not thinking enough about the drawers we deemed to be dry. The collection contains NJMA's macrofungi collection and Rutgers University plant pathogens (mostly microfungi). I am open to all comments, suggestions and advice.
We do not have many resources at hand, but can likely ask other departments, but with it being summer there might be a delay in response. We also have only 1 cart and no elevator in our building so moving the collection is more than difficult. I am heartbroken
and really at my wits end with our building and the risk it poses to our collection. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My email is <a href="mailto:megan.king@rutgers.edu">megan.king@rutgers.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Megan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Help a Herbarium! <a href="https://give.rutgers.edu/Herbarium">
https://give.rutgers.edu/Herbarium</a></span></b><span style="color:black"><br>
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Megan R. King | Assistant Curator Education and Outreach | Collections Manager, Chrysler Herbarium (CHRB) | Graduate Student | Rutgers University, New Brunswick | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources | Department of Ecology & Evolution | Email:
<a href="mailto:megan.king@rutgers.edu">megan.king@rutgers.edu</a> | Office: 848-932-4158<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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