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Several areas of The Open University have contributed to the Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences project over the years.
Simon Kelley and Andy Tindle of the Science faculty supplied the mineralogy and geology expertise, acquired and digitised samples, and developed collections and teaching resources. Peter Whalley of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) invented and developed the concept of the Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences; Jon Linney, Chris Valentine and Kevin Quick in the KMi team developed several pilot virtual microscope applications. Nigel Clarke of Pentahedra Ltd produced the Virtual Microscope and rotating specimen HTML5 assets. Learning and Teaching Solutions project managed, designed and created the Drupal website to host the Virtual Microscope; we would like to thank David Pilgrim, Glen Darby and Mike Stock for their contributions to the 2021 website upgrade.
We would also like to thank Jeremy Hooper (Imerys), Henry Emeleus (Durham University) and John Watson (The Open University) for their contribution of samples and assistance, and Michelle Higgins and Kay Green who prepared many of the thin sections.
Suzanne Schwenzer succeeded Simon Kelley as project lead, followed by Tom Argles, who oversaw an upgrade of the site in January 2021. We are grateful to Stacy Phillips, Kay Green and Michelle Higgins for their hard work in 2020-21 meeting the high demand for new assets during the coronavirus pandemic.
We also have a number of University partners: