The recently announced merger of Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Gorge Ecology Outdoors is opening up educational opportunities for the Discovery Center. Discovery Center Marketing Director Mikey Goyette says GEO has their own department within the Center’s educational department, and their looking to continue the programs GEO has offered in the last two decades along with opening up other opportunities. An example of the possibilities is a Perseid Meteor Shower Family Viewing Party Saturday evening at 8 p.m. in the Discovery Center parking lot.