{"id":91296,"date":"2019-05-25T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T00:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/a-month-after-the-fire-that-ravaged-the-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris"},"modified":"2019-05-25T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T00:22:43","slug":"a-month-after-the-fire-that-ravaged-the-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/a-month-after-the-fire-that-ravaged-the-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris","title":{"rendered":"A month after the fire that ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-month-after-the-fire-that-ravaged-the-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A month after the fire that ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, scientists and research bodies are getting organized to help restore the building\u2014and advance scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"http:\/\/videos.senat.fr\/video.1165220_5ce47b13c5e86.audition-pleniere---opecst---apports-des-sciences-et-technologies-a-la-restauration-de-notre-dame-d\">public hearing<\/a> held yesterday by France\u2019s Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST), academics explained how they can contribute to the government\u2019s efforts to restore the cathedral, which was partly destroyed on 15 April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis catastrophe is, in the end, a privileged moment for research, because we\u2019ll have access to materials that we otherwise wouldn\u2019t be able to access,\u201d said Martine Regert, deputy scientific director of the Institute of Ecology and Environment at the French national research agency CNRS. For example, analyzing certain isotopes in the cathedral\u2019s timber frame could provide insights about the medieval climate, said Philippe Dillmann, a research leader at CNRS\u2019s Institute for Research on Archeomaterials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/05\/scientists-want-help-restore-notre-dame-hoping-make-new-discoveries-process?utm_source=newsfromscience%3Dflipboard%3Dflipboard2426796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month after the fire that ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, scientists and research bodies are getting organized to help restore the building\u2014and advance scientific knowledge. At a public hearing held yesterday by France\u2019s Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST), academics explained how they can contribute to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}