________________________The University of Montana President's Report 1999________________________

NASA's Earth Observing System Education Project at UM has joined a national effort to produce a high-tech educational product about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

A DVD-ROM computer disk titled "The Rediskovery of the Lewis and Clark Trail" should be ready for students and educators before the 2003-2006 bicentennial of the explorers' historic trek.

The proposed disk will include a Lewis and Clark documentary film, multimedia audio and video clips, 12 volumes of the explorers' journals, digital aerial photography of key portions of the trail and more. The EOS Education Project will provide geographic information system data and remote-sensing imagery from NASA satellites to highlight the Lewis and Clark Trail in detail.

"We will be able to do a comparison of past and present landscapes," said Alex Philp, assistant director of the EOS Education Project. "The expedition represents an ideal event for an interdisciplinary analysis of historical, biogeographical and cultural elements of landscape change."

Once finished, the disk will function as a work of scholarly investigation and historical document preservation. Making this readily available to the public will simplify Lewis and Clark research and place valuable historical information in the hands of educators.

________________________The Discovery Continues________________________

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