Bernard Wood

Bernard (Bernie) Wood is a British geologist, and professor of mineralogy and senior research fellow at the University of Oxford. He specializes in the thermodynamics of geological systems, using experimental techniques.

In 1982, Wood moved to the Department of Geological Sciences at Northwestern University as a professor, and he was chair of that department from 1985 to 1988.

Since 2007, he has been based at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Oxford, where he installed the Experimental Petrology laboratory.

Research Wood initially became known for his work on geothermometry and geobarometry and started performing experiments at the University of Manchester in 1972. He also developed a model of the accretion and early differentiation of the Earth with student Jon Wade. At Oxford he worked with post-doc Ekaterina Kiseeva on partitioning into sulphides in igneous processes. Also at Oxford, he collaborated with Alex Halliday. he designed an inexpensive, simplified version which is widely used.

Books Holloway, J. R., & Wood, B. J. (1989). Simulating the Earth: Experimental Geochemistry. Springer.

Wood, B. J., & Fraser, D. G. (1976). Elementary Thermodynamics for Geologists. Oxford University Press.

Honors and awards Wood is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and he has received awards from a number of other learned societies including the Mineralogical Society of America, the Geochemical Society, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the European Geosciences Union, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (DE), the Max Planck Gesellschaft (DE), the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, and the Geological Society of London.

2018 Elected a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) 2014 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America 2013 Harry H. Hess Award 2012 Abraham G. Werner Medal, German Mineralogical Society 1997 Murchison Medal, Geological Society of London 1991 Schlumberger Medal, Mineralogical Society 1984 MSA Award, Mineralogical Society of America