Laurie King is an Archaeological Conservator within the Batten Conservation Complex at The Mariners’ Museum. Laurie received her undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Virginia and received her MSc Conservation Practice from Cardiff University in Wales. During her education at Cardiff, Laurie worked as a conservation intern at the Çatalhöyük Research Project in Turkey, working on Neolithic wall paintings, bone, and ceramics. After graduation, she completed a postgraduate internship at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, conserving both archaeological and decorative arts objects. Now at The Mariners’ Museum, she conserves artifacts recovered from the wreck of the US Civil War Ironclad USS Monitor, working with archeological metals, organics, and composite objects.