Meet The People
Paul Mardikian
Senior Conservator
Paul Mardikian obtained his M.A. in archaeology and art history from the School of the Louvre in Paris in 1989 and his M.S. in Conservation Sciences and Techniques from the Sorbonne University in 1991.
Specializing in marine archaeological conservation, he has worked several years with the team from the Electricite de France Valectra Laboratory on the conservation of artifacts from the Titanic, with specialists from the Canadian Heritage Parks Canada in the area of wet organic materials and composites and joined the team of the Western Australian Maritime Museum as an Honorary Research Fellow. Paul's experience in the field of maritime archaeology and conservation ranges from ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean to the conservation of American Civil War artifacts.
Paul's work includes the conservation for the US Navy of numerous artifacts retrieved from the Confederate raider Alabama sunk off France in 1864. Paul has been conserving artifacts for the Naval Historical Center in Washington DC since 1988 and has been serving as senior conservator on the H.L Hunley Project since 1999. His research interest includes the development of more effective and efficient conservation techniques for composite and large iron based artifacts.
