Miss Emma Bernard
Curator, Fossil Fish
Division: ES Vertebrates and Anthropology Palaeobiology
Summary
A dedicated museum professional with over eight years of experience working on natural science collections in small local authority, large regional and national museums.
I have experience in collection management, documentation, SPECTRUM standards, policy development, collection re-storage, digitization, exhibition design and interpretation and outreach.
Curatorial responsibilities:
Currently responsible for the Fossil Fish Section.
Oversee visitors to the section, dealing with inquiries, loans, destructive sampling and exhibition requests.
Documentation and digitisation of the collection and part of the eMesozoic digitisation group.
Co- manager for the Earth Sciences offsite storage building.
I manage four volunteers who are working on working on various curation projects in the fossil fish collection.
I participate and lead in a number of out reach events every year, such as the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, Scarborough Fossil Festival and Science Uncovered.
Regularly take part in collection enhancing fieldwork all around the world; America, Morocco, France and have lead field teams to Woodeaton Quarry, Oxfordshire.
Qualifications
- MSc, University of Leciester, United Kingdom, 2009 - 2010
- MSc, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, 2006 - 2007
- B.Sc (Honours), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2002 - 2006
Degrees
Employment history
- Curator of Palaeobiology, Natural History Museum, Earth Science, United Kingdom, 2011 - ongoing
- Assistant Curator of Biology, York Museums Trust, United Kingdom, 2010 - 2011
- Documentation Assistant, York Museums Trust, United Kingdom, 2010 - 2011
Academic
Committees
Other, Palaeontographical Society, 2014 - on going.
Other, Natural Sciences Collections Association, 2013 - 2016.
Other, Geological Curators Group, 2013 - on going.
Events
Organisation
Organiser, Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, (Public Engagement),
Publications
Bernard E, Ward D, brewer P, Wills S (2017) The Natural History Museum, London, rescue dig at Woodeaton Quarry, Oxfordshire - an update.. Presented at Palaeontological Association.
Hughes ZE, Bernard EL (2016) Natural History Museum, London stories from the collections. More to Mantell than dinosaurs, In: The Munich Show / Mineralientage München Theme Book: Hidden Treasures of the Museums English Edition, Wachholtz Murmann Publishers : 136 - 139.
Bernard E, Ward D, Brewer P, Wills S, Párraga J (2016) A diverse new Late Bathonian microvertebrate assemblage from Woodeaton Quarry, Oxfordshire, UK. Presented at Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Brewer P, Stevens L, Bernard E, Chapman S, Steel L, Smith D, Clery M (null) eMesozoic: digitising historical palaeontological collections. Lyell Meeting 2016 - Palaeoinformatics - The Geological Society, 93 3 - 9 3 3
Bernard EL, Smith M (2016) Arthur Smith Woodward's fossil fish type specimens. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 430 (1) : 87 - 88. doi: 10.1144/sp430.14
Bernard E, Brewer P, Wills S, Ward D, Parraga J (2015) Update on work from Woodeaton Quarry, Oxford, UK and the use of volunteers in large scale collection projects.. Presented at Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy.
Ward D, Richter M, Popov E, Bernard E (2015) The first holomorphic fossil chimaeroid fish (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from Africa. Presented at 74th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Bernard E, Ward D, Popov E, Richter M (2014) The first holomorphic fossil chimaeroid fish (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from Africa.. Presented at North African Vertrbrate Palaeontology Second International Congress.
Bernard E, Richter M, Ward D, Wills S (2013) The NHM rescue dig at Woodeaton Quarry Oxfordshire.. Presented at 57th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association.
Bernard EL, Ruta M, Tarver JE, Benton MJ (2010) The Fossil Record of Early Tetrapods: Worker Effort and the End-Permian Mass Extinction. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 55 (2) : 229 - 239. doi: 10.4202/app.2009.0025
Bernard E, Bernard (2009) Ice Age Fossils in Worcester City Museums' Natural History Collection. null :
Contributed Publications
Ward D, Richter M, Popov E, Bernard E (2015) The first holomorphic fossil chimaeroid fish (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from Africa. Presented at 74th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Bernard E, Ward D, Popov E, Richter M (2014) The first holomorphic fossil chimaeroid fish (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from Africa.. Presented at North African Vertrbrate Palaeontology Second International Congress.
Invited and keynote speaker
eMesozoic: British Fossils in the Digital Age, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: Salt Lake City, 27/10/2016.
eMesozoic: an alternative approach to digitising palaeontological collections, SPNHC 2016: 22/6/2016.
Public Engagement
External activities
Nature Live, 11/2/2017
Sheffield Schools Day, Sheffield University, Sheffield, 28/11/2012
Ilford Mammoth Festival, London, 2014 - 2014.
Internal activities
Nature Live, 20/1/2017
Nature Live, 31/1/2014