1、SPRING 2024ART&SCIENCEThis fall will mark the start of Art&Science Collide,the third iteration of Gettys PST ART series(previously called Pacific Standard Time).This PST ART will feature fifty exhibitions in Southern Californiainclud-ing several organized by the GCIthat will delve into the intersect

2、ions of art and science.In conjunction with this regional exhibition series,were devoting this Conservation Perspectives to exploring the connections between art and scienceand conservation.As noted within these pages,particularly in this editions roundtable,art and science are in many respects two

3、sides of the same coin.Both grow out of curiosity,and both are driven by a desire to know and to understand our world through a creative process.When they join in this pursuit of knowledge,interesting and insightful things can happen.Which is what Art&Science Collide is all about.Our feature article

4、 is authored by two professors at the University of California,San DiegoLisa Cartwright,an art and science historian,and Isabel Rivera-Collazo,a marine archaeologistwho examine the entanglements of ecological change with cultural sites,particularly those of Indigenous maritime peoples.They argue tha

5、t the accelerating disappearance of coastal cultural heritage sites around the world has made collaboration among environmental and heritage conservators,archaeologists,historians,and Indigenous communities more urgent in the preser-vation of the art and artifacts within those sites.In the first of

6、our shorter articles,Annette S.Ortiz Miranda,a conservation scientist at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore,emphasizes the need for a more diverse conservation science field,because backgrounds and identities shape the questions asked by scientists.Conservation science,she notes,is enriched by intr