Bernard Wood#
Membership Number: | 4790 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/people/bernie-wood |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Research Professor, University of Oxford, U.K.
- 2005 - 2008 Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia
- 1995 - 1996 Guest Professor at Mineralogisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, DE
- 1989 - 2005 Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK. Head of Department 1994 - 1997
- 1982 - 1989 Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, USA. Chairman, 1985 - 1988
- 1980 - 1981 Principal Scientist, Rockwell Hanford Operations, Richland, Washington, USA
- 1975 - 1976 Postdoctoral Fellow, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
- 1973 - 1978 Lecturer, then Reader in Petrology University of Manchester, UK
- 1973 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Oxygen fugacities recorded by mantle rocks
- Volatilities of elements in the solar nebula
- Geothermometry and Geobarometry
- Accretion of the Earth and effects of core segregation on mantle composition
- Trace element partitioning between crystals and melts
- Experimental petrology
- Phase transitions in the Earth's mantle
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Roebling Medal, Mineralogical Society of America
- 2013 Harry H. Hess Medal, American Geophysical Union
- 2012 Abraham G. Werner Medal, German Mineralogical Society
- 2003 Goldschmidt Medal, Geochemical Society
- 2001 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 1999 Max Planck Research Prize, Max Planck Society
- 1998 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1997 Arthur Holmes Medal, European Union of Geosciences
- 1997 Murchison Medal, Geological Society of London
- 1991 Schlumberger Medal, Mineralogical Society
- 1984 MSA Award, Mineralogical Society of America