GIAC was established in 1989 as an MSU Center within the Department of Earth Sciences. GIAC provides GIS services to the academic community and to the Montana community at large. The Center contributes, in the land grant tradition, to the university's programs of education, research and outreach by conducting on- and off-campus workshops, providing GIS technical support to the GIS-user's community, maintaining a GIS and Remote Sensing Computer Lab, and conducting joint government-industry-university research using a variety of geographic information system and remote sensing packages. GIAC staff work closely with interested parties to help in the development and implementation of customized geographic databases. Assistance is provided at an hourly rate, in the application of various spatial analysis techniques and modeling technologies. GIAC's facilities include one PC server, two UNIX servers, HP Designjet 5000 PS plotter, digitizer, scanner, and a teaching lab with 17 PCs.