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An image of a screen showing the title of virtual Rock Box with 4 white buttons spaced out underneath it with light grey background . White boxes have writing Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic and fossil. Underneath is a dark grey background with Igneous(9) written in white text as if selected then under that with three rocks each in it's own square white box and a play button on each, showing it is an interactive page.

A Low-Cost, User-Friendly Technology for Making Samples and Artifacts Accessible to Online Audiences

The pandemic precipitated the need for virtual access to science through technology and hence the creation of the Virtual Rock Box. Rock samples from the Polar Rock Repository were…

Close-up of sedimentary rock showing distinct layers alongside a logo. The logo is a compass rose with a small set of mountains and two pickaxes at its center.

Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought

National Geographic published an article on July 22, 2020 discussing discoveries made using rock samples stored at the Byrd Center's Polar Rock Repository (PRR). These samples were collected…