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James M. Reilly, Director of IPI, is well known for his research on the effects of temperature and humidity on library, archives, and museum collections, deterioration of 19th-century photographic prints, environmental monitoring and control, management of film archives, and the major causes of image deterioration. He is the co-director of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at George Eastman House. He is a consultant to numerous museums and government agencies and is sought after worldwide as a teacher and seminar speaker. He has written extensively on preservation issues, and in 1998 he received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Email: jmrpph@rit.edu

Daniel Burge received his B.S. in Imaging and Photographic Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1991. He has been a full-time member of the IPI staff since 1990. His primary focus of research at IPI has been the chemical and physical interactions between imaging media and storage enclosures, including the development and improvement of testing methods. He lectures to various consumer and trade groups and writes for their publications on home archiving and photo storage products. He has also been a consultant to many archival supply companies. Currently he is investigating digital hard copy stability and storage issues.
Email: dmbpph@rit.edu

Lindsey Rima received her degree in Biomedical Photographic Communication from RIT in 2005. Before coming to IPI, she spent four years working as a microscopy and image analysis specialist for Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.
Lindsey joined IPI as a research scientist in July 2008 and will be focusing on enclosure testing, including pH testing and the photographic activity test.
When not at work Lindsey spends her time exploring the culinary and botanical sciences.
Email: larpph@rit.edu

Andrea Venosa received a degree in molecular biology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before joining IPI, Andrea did scientific research and technical work at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Rochester Medical Center. Her work at IPI involves the development and implementation of experiments on the light-fastness of digital hardcopy and photographic materials.
Email: ajvpph@rit.edu