Dr. Bernard was a malacologist, and head of the Shellfish Section and the Salmon and International Section of the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, Canada.

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Bernard has published the following:

Bernard, F. R. 1983. Catalogue of the living Bivalvia of the eastern Pacific Ocean: Bering Strait to Cape Horn. Canadian Special Publications of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: viii + 102 pp.

Coan, E. V., P. V. Scott, and F. R. Bernard. 2000. Bivalve Seashells of Western North America: Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs, Studies in Biodiversity, Number 2. viii + 764.