Meet the Folks Who've Made This Project Happen
Jamie Russell
(2008- present). Jamie is our full-time staff member who is making
it all happen these days. She's recruited six interns and worked with
them in the summer of 2008 to add thousands of new images to the archive.
She hired another group of interns in 2009 and will be working with them
in the summer to add thousands of additional images to the archive.
Lizzie Andre
(2006-present). Lizzie was a UVM graduate student in Historical
Preservation who joined the project after her graduation. She's
responsible for developing relative dating rubrics (click here to see her work) and dating more than
6000 undated images in the archive! She's also kept busy doing loads of
QA/QC cleaning up the database, as well as describing and key wording
images.
Renee Gliddon
(2009-2011). Renee worked for LCP as in intern in the summers of 2009,
2010 and 2011. Renee scanned and describe images. During the three summers, she
contributed nearly 9,000 images to the archive. Renee graduated UVM with a degree
in middle level education.
Caroline Rush
(2009 and 2011). Caroline was an intern during the summers of 2009 and 2011.
She scanned and described images alongside fellow interns and helped to being the
archive to over 40,000 images. Caroline is a student in the Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources at UVM.
Katherine Zephir
(2009 and 2011). Coco is pursuing a masters in English at UVM. She graduated UVM
with a double major in environmental studies and english.
Coco worked during the summers of 2009 and 2011 scanning and describing images for the
Landscape Change Program. She worked to bring the number of images in the
archive to over 40,000.
Billy Clark
(2011). Billy Clark is a graduate student at UVM studying English Literature.
He attended UVM as an undergraduate, where he double majored in English and
History. Billy worked during the
summer of 2011 scanning and describing images for the Landscape Change Program.
He worked to bring the number of images in the archive to over 40,000.
Samantha Merrill
(2009 and 2010). Sam is a journalism major at St. Michael's college.
During the '09 summer and '10 winter Sam worked as an intern for the Landscape Change Program scanning
and describing images. Along with the other interns she helped to being
the archive to over 30,000 images.
Morgan Stewart
(2009 and 2010-11). Morgan worked as a Landscape Change Program intern in the
summer 2009 and winter 2010-11.
She worked under a grant from the Transportation Research Center at UVM to scan and
describe images documenting construction of the intestates in Vermont. Together with
the 6 other interns, Morgan helped to take the number of images in the archive to over
30,000. Morgan is a sociology major at UVM.
Sara Krumminga
(2008 and 2010-11). Sara graduated UVM with a History major, Geography minor.
She started in the summer of 2008 as an intern scanning
and describing images. She continued working through the fall and
was part of a team who worked to increase the number of images in the
archive from about 14,000 to nearly 24,000. Sara joined LCP again in the winter
and spring 2011-11 scanning and describing images.
Josh Ellsworth
(2008 and 2010-11). Josh started in the summer of 2008 as an intern scanning
and describing images. He continued through the fall working with
fellow interns to take the number of images in the archive from
about 14,000 to nearly 24,000. Josh graduated UVM with a double major
in Political Science and Environmental Studies. Josh joined LCP again in the
winter and spring 2010-11 scanning images.
Kathryn Daly, Eric Nystrom, Connie Kent, Emily Siegel, Christine McNiff, Jen Parsons, Meghan Bezio (Winter 2010-2011). Kathryn, Eric, Connie, Emily, Christine, Jen and Meghan scanned images for the Landscape Change Program during the winter of 2010-11. They scanned images of interstate construction held at the Vermont State Archives.
Glen Frieden
(2009). Glen is a history and russian literature double major at Middlebury College.
He worked as a LCP intern during the 2009 summer scanning and describing images. Alongside his
fellow interns, Glen helped to being the archive to over 30,000 images.
Andrew Turgeon
(2009). Andrew was a summer '09 intern for the Landscape Change Program. He
scanned and described images alongside fellow interns and helped to being
the archive to over 30,000 images. Andrew graduated with a degree in geography
from UVM just before beginning to work for LCP.
Malin Deon
(2008). Malin worked during the summer of 2008 as an intern
scanning and describing images. She worked with fellow interns
to take the number of images in the archive from about 14,000
to nearly 24,000. Malin was a graduate student in the Historic Preservation
department at UVM and has since graduated.
Kristina Brown
(2008). Kristina is a Middlebury College student studying Literature
and Geography. She plans to graduate in 2010. Kristina worked during the
summer of 2008 as an intern scanning and describing images. During the
extremely productive summer that Kristina and her fellow interns worked,
the number of images in the archive jumped from about 14,000 to nearly 24,000.
Kate Sease
(2008-2009). Kate is a student at UVM studying Political Science and History.
She plans to graduate in 2010. Kate worked during the summer of 2008 through
February 2009 as an intern scanning and describing images.
She worked with fellow interns to take the number of
images in the archive from about 14,000 to nearly 24,000.
John William Meyer
(2008). John William is a Middlebury College student with a double major in
History and Economics. He plans to graduate in 2010.
John William worked during the summer of 2008 as an
intern scanning and describing images. During the summer of his employment
John William and his fellow interns worked to take the number of images in
the archive from about 14,000 to nearly 24,000.
Wesley Wright (2005-
present). Wes is the UVM programming guru who makes the magic happen
and images show up on your screen.
Shelley Snyder
(2004 - present). Shelley joined the crew for July of 2004 as a
"teacher in residence." She's a high school teacher at Mt.
Abraham Union High School and took time from her vacation to work with
us, gaining familiarity with the project and adding valuable perspective
and hard work. Shelly remains with the project helping to coordinate
curriculum development.
Amanda Gestinger
(2007-present). Amanda is scan queen, far outdistancing Matt in just
about every match up. Maybe it's windows? Amanda scanned many of the
Long Trail images. Amanda was a UVM Geology graduate student while she
worked on the project.
Matt Jungers
(2007-present). Matt kept busy describing images from the Green
Mountain club, scanning Long Trail images, as well as promising to
upload cool pictures of ice climbing in Vermont. Matt was UVM Geology
graduate student while she worked on the project.
Ashley Hogan (2007-present). Ashley scanned, photographed, and
described several hundred image from a 2007 show at the UVM Fleming
Museum, Burlington and Winooski 1920-2020: The Evolution of our Built
Environment. She was a UVM undergraduate student at the time and
continued working into the summer.
Danielle Eastman
(2007-present). Danielle described images of campus and of surrounding
towns during the summer of 2007. She was a UVM undergraduate student at
the time who had just graduated.
Abigail Hood (2006-2007).
Abby Hood worked reshooting high elevation images from the Green
Mountains of Vermont. She worked for the program after graduating with
an MS degree from UVM and is now a teacher.
John Paul Lavoie (2005-2006). JP worked for the program
developing curriculum and cleaning up more than 10,000 images. As
photoshop god, he rotated, cropped, removed moire, and adjusted contrast
and brightness. He is now a teacher.
Ben Fenster (2005-2007). Ben
is responsible for much of the look and feel of the Landscape Change web
site. Ben worked as part of the Landscape team while he was an MS
student in computer science at UVM. He continued coding after
graduation. Ben is Mr. Search.
Corey Coutu (2005-2007).
Corey scanned and described images for several years working first for
the Landscape Program when he was an undergraduate at UVM and continuing
as a graduate student in Geology and Education.
Emily Rehmeyer (2006-2007).
Emily, a geography and computer science undergraduate at UVM, developed
the first database analysis tools that were critical in helping us and
others see the Landscape archive in whole new ways.
Rachel Lomonaco (2005).
Rachel scanned images for a summer with the program while she was a UVM
undergraduate in Geology. She went on to describe those images over the
next few months.
Kara Lenorovitz
(2004). Kara helped scan and upload photos in 2004. She figured out how
to date postcards by their postage and helped solve countless mysteries
of where various photos are located.
Elizabeth Stanley Mann
(2004-2005). (Left) Elizabeth worked during the spring of 2004 to
reshoot the collection of 1927 aerial flood photos and then stayed on as
part of our first team of interns. Michala Peabody (2004-2006)
Michala joined the team for the summer of 2004. Her scanning prowess
made us suspect a "deal with the devil". Michala kept
on scanning and describing for another 2 years! Jehanna Howe
(2004-2005). Jehanna also joined the team for the summer 2004-2005. Her
hard work added much to the program. She risked permanent numbness in
one pinky finger (our first scanning injury?) for the cause.
Byron Murray (2004).
Byron worked with us for June of 2004, helping at Special Collections
and the Vermont State Archives.
Dave Elvin (2003-2004).
Dave did the initial database programming that gives the site its
functionality, both for searches and uploads. Pages with images were
made "on the fly" by our database so that staff don't need to
make separate html pages for each set of images as they did in the first
version of this site.
Jens Hilke (2003-2004). Jens
worked as the second Project Coordinator in 2003 /2004. He worked with
another cohort of schools during the academic year and helped redesign
the web page to its current form. The collection went to 3180 images
during the school year and then expanded greatly as he worked with our
first group of interns.
Megan McGee (2003-2005).
Megan helped with the changeover from the first version of the website
to the second. She spent considerable time helping us upload and then
reupload images, working out the bugs of the new database.
Lyman Persico (2000-2001).
Lyman assisted with reshooting many photos in the first years of the
project.
Naomi Lawrence (2000). Naomi
was a high school student who worked with Laura and Lyman scanning and
reshooting photographs.
Laura Mallard (2000-2001).
Laura worked as the first Project Coordinator for the LCP in 2000 /
2001. She designed the first version of this web site and worked with a
group of pilot schools. She spent hours making pages for each set of
images. Her hard work and energy brought the site to about 600 images.
2004 summer scanning Crew, hard at work at the Vermont State Archives
