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Charlotte Björdal
Professor
Institutionen för marinaOm Charlotte Björdal
Academic background
B.Sc. 1986. Conservator. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ph.D. 2000. Wood science. Department of Wood Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden.
Associate Professor (Docent). 2009. Dept of Building Material, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Undervisningsområden / Teaching Areas
- Conservation of archaeological materials - Wood science, including wood structure and degradation - Microbial degradation of wood - Conservation and in situ preservation of waterlogged wood including shipwrecks - Research and scientific writing
Forskningsområden / Reseach Areas
Wood and waterlogged archaeological wood: - Microbial decay processes in terrestrial and aquatic environments - Bacterial degradation of waterlogged wood - In situ preservation and protection of shipwrecks - Conservation of waterlogged wood
Ongoing research projects
Skydd av trägrundläggning och kulturlager i samband med stadsplanering och byggande för hållbart resande. Projektägare:Trafikverket, ( 2017 - 2021)
Evaluering av Kronholmskoggens status efter 24 års aktiv in-situ bevaring. Projektägare: Riksantikvarieämbetet, (2020)
Latest EU- projects - Wreck Protect (2009-2011) - SASMAP: Survey, Assess, Stabilise, Monitor And Preserve underwater archaeological sites (2012-2015)
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Evaluation of in situ preservation method applied at a terrestrial archaeological shipwreck site by use of sacrificial wood samples installed for 25
years
Charlotte Björdal, J. Rönnby
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation - 2023 -
Degradation of wood buried in soils exposed to artificially lowered groundwater levels in a laboratory
setting
Johanna Elam, Charlotte Björdal
International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation - 2023 -
Long-term study on wood degradation in urban soil-water systems - implications for service life of historic foundation
piles
Johanna Elam, Charlotte Björdal
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation - 2022 -
Raman Spectroscopic Investigation of Iron-Tannin Precipitates in Waterlogged Archaeological
Oak
Åke Henrik-Klemens, Felicia Bengtsson, Charlotte Björdal
Studies in Conservation - 2022 -
Bacterial degradation of nine wooden foundation piles from Gothenburg historic city center and correlation to wood quality, environment, and time in
service
Charlotte Björdal, Johanna Elam
International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation - 2021 -
Correlation between bacterial decay and chemical changes in waterlogged archaeological wood analysed by light microscopy and
Py-GC/MS
Nanna Bjerregaard Pedersen, Jeannette Jacqueline Łucejko, Francesca Modugno, Charlotte Björdal
Holzforschung - 2021 -
First evidence of microbial wood degradation in the coastal waters of the
Antarctic
Charlotte Björdal, P. K. Dayton
Scientific Reports - 2020 -
European Standards for Archaeological Wood - theoretical background, purpose, and
application
M. Fioravanti, J. Spriggs, Charlotte Björdal, D. Gregory, A. Pournou, E. A. Peacock, K. Straetkvern, J. Gelbrich, Q. K. Tran
International Conference Florence Heri-tech: the Future of Heritage Science and Technologies, 14-16 oct 2020, Online Edition - 2020 -
An in situ Raman spectroscopic method for quantification of polyethylene glycol (PEG) in waterlogged archaeological
wood
Åke Henrik-Klemens, Katarina Abrahamsson, Charlotte Björdal, Alexandra Walsh
Holzforschung - 2020 -
A review and case studies of factors affecting the stability of wooden foundation piles in urban environments exposed to construction
work
Johanna Elam, Charlotte Björdal
International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation - 2020 -
Correlation between sulfur accumulation and microbial wood degradation
on shipwreck
timbers
Charlotte Björdal, Yvonne Fors
International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation - 2019 -
Improving understanding of carbon storage in wood in landfills: Evidence from reactor
studies
Fabiano Ximenes, Charlotte Björdal, Amrit Kathuria, Morton Barlaz, Annette Cowie
Waste Management - 2019 -
Submerged archaeological wooden
structures
Charlotte Björdal
Biodeterioration and preservation - 2018 -
Development and use of a non-destructive diver-held underwater wood density
profiler
Jensen P,, Pedersen, R.,, Gregory, D.,, Eriksen, A-M.,, Charlotte Björdal
In ICOM-CC 18th Triennial Conference Preprints, Copenhagen, 4–8 September 2017. ed. J. Bridgland - 2017 -
A study on correlation between microbial decay and accumulation of sulfur and iron in shipwreck timbers of
oak.
Yvonne Fors, Charlotte Björdal
Proceedings of the ICOM Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference - 2016 -
The decay of wood in landfills in contrasting climates in
Australia
F. Ximenes, Charlotte Björdal, A. Cowie, M. Barlaz
Waste Management - 2015 -
Bacterial degradation of archaeological wood in anoxic waterlogged
environments.
N. B. Pedersen, Charlotte Björdal, P. Jensen, C. Felby
Stability of complex carbohydrate structures. Biofuels, foods, vaccines and shipwrecks - 2013 -
Well-preserved shipwrecks from the Baltic Sea – a new
perspective
Yvonne Fors, Charlotte Björdal
Interpretation of Shipwrecks. (Eds. J. Rönnby, J. Adams). Södertörn Academic Studies 56, Southampton Archaeology Monographs New Series No. 4 - 2013 -
The RAAR Project — Heritage Management Aspects on Reburial After Ten Years of
Work
Inger Nyström Godfrey, Thomas Bergstrand, Håkan Petersson, Carola Bohm, Charlotte Björdal, Eva Christensson, David Gregory, I.M MacLeod, Elizabeth Ellen Peacock, Vicki Richards
Conservation and Management of Archeological Sites - 2012 -
Evaluation of microbial degradation of shipwrecks in the Baltic
Sea
Charlotte Björdal
International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation - 2012 -
Strategies for protection of wooden underwater cultural heritage in the Baltic sea against marine borers. The EU project
"WreckProtect"
Charlotte Björdal, D. Gregory, M. Manders, Z. Al-Hamdani, Christin Appelqvist, Jonathan N. Havenhand, J. Dencker
Conservation and Management of Archeological Sites - 2012 -
Reburial: a method for preserving collections of marine archaeological artefacts? Contributions of the Marstrand
Project
Elizabeth Ellen Peacock, T. Bergstrand, I. Nyström Godfrey, Charlotte Björdal, C. Bohm, E. Christensson, D. Gregory, I.M. MacLeod, T. Nilsson, V. Richards, G. Turner-Walker
IKUWA3: Beyond Boundaries : proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Underwater Archaeology, 9th to the 12th July 2008, London (Kolloquien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 17) - 2012 -
Reburial and analyses of archaeological remains - The RAAR project. Phase
III
I. Nyström Godfrey, T. Bergstrand, C. Bohm, E. Christensson, Charlotte Björdal, D. Gregory, I.M. MacLeod, Elizabeth Ellen Peacock, V. Richards
Proceedings of the 11th ICOM-CC Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference: Greenville 2010 - 2012 -
Sulfur and iron analyses of marine archaeological wood in shipwrecks from the Baltic Sea and Scandinavian
waters
Yvonne Fors, Farideh Jalilehvand, Emiliana Damian Risberg, Charlotte Björdal, Ebba Philips, Magnus Sandström
Journal of Archaeological Science - 2012 -
Microbial degradation of waterlogged archaeological
wood
Charlotte Björdal
Journal of Cultural Heritage - 2012 -
Wood degraders in the Baltic Sea (Fungi and bacterial
decay)
Charlotte Björdal
WreckProtect : decay and protection of archaeological wooden shipwrecks / edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Björdal & David Gregory - 2011 -
Future
research
Charlotte Björdal
WreckProtect : decay and protection of archaeological wooden shipwrecks / edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Björdal & David Gregory - 2011 -
In-situ preservation of a wreck (Costs for in-situ preservation versus full
conservation)
Charlotte Björdal
WreckProtect : decay and protection of archaeological wooden shipwrecks / edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Björdal & David Gregory - 2011 -
The decay process of shipwrecks timbers in the
Baltic
Charlotte Björdal
WreckProtect : decay and protection of archaeological wooden shipwrecks / edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Björdal & David Gregory - 2011 -
Wood as
material
Charlotte Björdal
WreckProtect : decay and protection of archaeological wooden shipwrecks / edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Björdal & David Gregory - 2011 -
Introduction
Charlotte Björdal
WreckProtect : decay and protection of archaeological wooden shipwrecks / edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Björdal & David Gregory - 2011 -
WreckProtect : decay and protection of archaeological wooden
shipwrecks
Charlotte Björdal, David Gregory
2011 -
The Marstrand Reburial Project - overview, phase I and future
work
Elizabeth Ellen Peacock, Thomas Bergstrand, Inger Nyström Godfrey, Charlotte Björdal, Carola Bohm, Eva Christensson, David Gregory, Ian MacLeod, Thomas Nilsson, Vicki Richards, Gordon Howard Turner-Walker
Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Studies - 2008