<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Dear Leslie,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If the coral is in good shape and was prepared properly, one option would be to use charcoal bags to sequester some of the smell. This method only works in a confined space (inside a cabinet, for example) but not on open shelving.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We have done this successfully for IZ collections as well as for skins, and it is night and day. You can open the cabinet door without falling backwards.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is important for you to know that the charcoal bags will absorb some of the smell but they will need to get reconditioned after a while. The ones we use only need a few hours in the sun to get reactivated and back they go into the cabinets.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope this helps.</div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Mariana</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Mariana Di Giacomo, PhD<br>Natural History Conservator, Yale Peabody Museum<br>Associate Editor, Collection Forum, SPNHC <br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, 16:10 Leslie L Skibinski <<a href="mailto:lls94@cornell.edu">lls94@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I am passing this question along for someone else. A collection manager has a donation of Alaskan Coral that was collected in 2017 and they would like to catalog it. The problem is that it is very stinky.
What should they do to reduce the smell without impacting the specimens research value?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">--Leslie<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Leslie L. Skibinski<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Collection Manager<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Paleontological Research Institution<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Ithaca, New York 14850<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Phone: (607) 273-6623 ext. 128<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Fax: (607) 273-6620<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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