Greetings Vermont Educators, Please pardon the bulk email, but it seemed like the best way to get the news out! After 6 months of work, we are ready to launch the new Landscape Change Program web page. It can be found at http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape The Landscape Change Program is a digital archive of Vermont images that documents landscape change over time using historical imagery paired where and when we can with modern images of the same sites. We now have more than 1500 images in the archive representing many towns throughout the state. Our search engine allows you to find images using any combination of keywords, location, or date. The work you see has been supported by grants from both the National Science Foundation and the Lintilhac Foundation. We are continuing to work with schools and historical societies to collect Vermont images. The newly developed web software allows anyone to submit an image and image description making this truly a community archive. If you have any interesting images of Vermont landscapes, give it a try! Submit your image from the program web page and in a few days, it too will be part of the archive. We hope that the site will be both interesting and useful to you. If you teach, please consider using the site in your classes, having students both search for and upload images. Check out the on-line curriculum ideas and standards mapping, as well. If you have a collection of images, please consider uploading them or be in touch with us and we may be able to help with scanning. We also have computers, scanners, GPS units and digital cameras that can be lent for the purpose of acquiring images for the program. If you need help with imagery or want to know more about getting involved in the project, please contact any of the project staff via either the project email [log in to unmask] or our personal emails. Jens Hilke (project coordinator, [log in to unmask]), Christine Massey (museum education specialist, [log in to unmask]), or Paul Bierman (Professor, [log in to unmask]). Please spread word of the archive. The more people who get involved, the richer and more useful the image archive will become! Feel free to forward this email to friends and colleagues interested in Vermont. Cheers, Christine -- ___________________________________________________________ Christine A. Massey (802)656-1344 phone Museum Education Specialist (802)656-0045 fax Perkins Geology Museum [log in to unmask] University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/ 43 Colchester Avenue Burlington, VT 05405-0122 ___________________________________________________________