Abbreviated CV (full CV here):

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Summer 2021-present Assistant Professor, Amherst College

Fall 2019-Spring 2021 Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Amherst College

2018-2019 Scripps Institutional Postdoctoral Scholar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD (Advisor: Emily Chin)

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Austin, PhD in Geosciences, 2018

Princeton University, B.S.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2009

POST-BACCALAUREATE EMPLOYMENT

National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. July 2011 – July 2013. Title: Science Assistant for the Division of Earth Sciences

Schlumberger Drilling and Measurements, Youngsville, LA. October 2009 – June 2011. Title: Field Engineer

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Bernard, R. E., Chin, E. J., Murphy, C. (2023) Melt-assisted deformation in the lower crust of an active plate boundary, Baja California. LITHOS. DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106975

Bernard, R. E., Schulte-Pelkum, V., & W. M. Behr (2021), The competing effects of olivine and orthopyroxene CPO on seismic anisotropy. Tectonophysics 814. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228954

Bernard, R. E., Behr, W. M., Becker, T. W., & D. J. Young (2019), Relationships between olivine CPO and deformation parameters in naturally deformed rocks and implications for mantle seismic anisotropy. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20. DOI: 10.1029/2019GC008289

Dygert, N., Bernard, R. E., & W. M. Behr (2019), Great Basin mantle xenoliths record active lithospheric downwelling beneath central Nevada. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20, DOI: 10.1029/2018GC007834.

Bernard, Rachel E. and Emily H.G. Cooperdock (2018), No progress on diversity in 40 years. Nature Geoscience 11, 292–295, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0116-6.

Bernard, Rachel E. and Colleen Henegan (2018), A Polarizing View, The Science Teacher, 85 (1), 33-41. (The Science Teacher is a peer-reviewed education journal by the National Science Teachers Association).

Bernard, Rachel E., and W. M. Behr (2017), Fabric heterogeneity in the Mojave lower crust and lithospheric mantle in Southern California, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014280.

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • 2020: co-PI, NSF Award 2018087: Diversifying geochemistry – travel support for students from under-represented constituencies to attend the Goldschmidt Conference

  • 2018-2019: Scripps Institutional Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • 2017: Geological Society of America Research Grant

  • 2015-2018: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

  • 2015: Marathon Oil Diversity Scholarship

  • 2014: Microanalysis Society Student Travel Grant for EBSD 2014 conference

  • 2014: Ford Foundation Fellowship, Honorable Mention and Alternate Status

  • 2014: Geological Society of America Research Grant

  • 2014: UT Off-Campus Research Fellowship from Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship Fund

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (*Invited)

*Bernard, R.E. Risks and rewards of doing DEI work in grad school. Pardee Keynote Symposium: The Next Generation of Geoscience Leaders: Strategies for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion, 2020 GSA Annual Meeting. Speaker and panelist.

Bernard, Rachel E., and E. Chin. Microstructural and geochemical investigation of igneous textures and coronas in San Quintin lower crustal xenoliths. 2019 GSA Annual Meeting. Phoenix, AZ. Poster Presentation.

Bernard, Rachel E., Day, J. D., and E. Chin. Strong olivine lattice preferred orientation in brachinite-like achondrites. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX. Poster Presentation. (March 21, 2019)

Bernard, Rachel E., Behr, W.M, Becker, T., and D. Young. Relationships between olivine LPO and deformation conditions in naturally deformed rocks and implications for mantle seismic anisotropy. 2018 AGU Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Oral Presentation.

Bernard, Rachel E., Behr, W.M. Plagioclase-dominated seismic anisotropy in the Basin and Range lower crust. 2017 AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Oral Presentation.

*Bernard, Rachel E., Mayfield, K.K. Doctoral programs need changes to attract and retain underrepresented groups. 2017 AGU Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Oral Presentation.

Bernard, Rachel E., and Whitney M. Behr. “Rheology of the Mojave Lower Crust and Lithospheric Mantle As Revealed By Xenoliths.” 2016 SACNAS Annual Meeting. October 13-15, 2016. Oral Presentation.

Bernard, Rachel E., and Whitney M. Behr. “Constraints from xenoliths on the rheology of the Mojave lower crust and lithospheric mantle.” 2015 Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA. Poster Presentation.