The Landscape Change Program in VT

K-16 students in Vermont are creating a web-based archive of historical and modern photograph pairs documenting 150 years of human interaction with the Vermont landscape: http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape/index.html. Students learn how to use GPS, a digital camera, and computer imaging equipment as part of ongoing research to document change in the Vermont landscape from the mid-1800s to the present. University geologists introduce high school students to the geomorphology and the settlement history of Vermont. High school teachers, with the aid of student and teacher manuals we have prepared, lead students through the research process and focus classroom study on interdisciplinary concepts related to environmental science and human-induced landscape change of their local areas....