Robin E. Bell 
Robin E. Bell was AGU’s board president from 2019-2020. She has been a member of AGU for more than 30 years, including serving as president of the Cryosphere section, being elected as an AGU Fellow in 2011 and receiving Outstanding Student Paper in Geodesy at the AGU Fall Meeting in 1988.
Bell is a Palisades Geophysical Institute (PGI)/Lamont Research Professor in Marine Geology and Geophysics at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She directs research programs in Antarctica and Greenland, and she has developed technology to monitor our changing planet. Her career highlights are expansive and include having a mile-long Antarctic ridge, Bell Buttress, named after her, discovering a volcano beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, and leading a Lamont team to map the Hudson River from Staten Island to Albany.
In a special election, AGU members have elected Catherine Coleman Flowers to serve on the AGU Board of Directors. The AGU Leadership Development and Governance Committee would like to thank everyone who voted in this special election to fill a vacancy on the Board. In May 2022, Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome accepted a position as Senior Director for … Read more
Earlier this year, AGU Board member Jalonne White-Newsome accepted a position as Senior Director for Environmental Justice for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The role necessitated that Dr. White-Newsome step down from the AGU Board. The AGU Leadership Development/Governance Committee has decided to hold a special unopposed election with Catherine Coleman Flowers to … Read more
AGU members have elected Brandon Jones as the organization’s next president-elect, as well as electing 58 other Union officers, Board members, section officers, and student and early-career representatives to the AGU Council, and the College of Fellows chair-elect for the 2023-2024 leadership term. With more than 16% of our membership who voted in the election … Read more
In AGU’s 2022 biennial election, for which voting ended on 6 October, the membership chose 59 new leaders to serve 2-year terms in 2023–2024. Union officers, Board members, section officers, student and early-career representatives to the Council, and the College of Fellows chair-elect were elected. Here the AGU Leadership Development/Governance Committee looks back at the … Read more
The AGU Leadership Development/Governance Committee and Section and College of Fellows officers are pleased to announce the proposed slate of candidates for the 2022 AGU election. Every two years, per its bylaws, AGU elects leaders for the Board and Council, Sections and the College of Fellows who will move the organization forward and will be instrumental … Read more
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AGU has started to divest its portfolio to strengthen our commitment to mission-related investments and to better align with our strategic plan, which places a strong focus on a sustainable future. This divestment started in October 2021 and will take up to 18 months to complete. As a sign of further alignment with our vision of a sustainable future, AGU Board of Directors has also asked its Finance and Investment Committee to chart a path toward carbon neutrality for all AGU’s investments.
2020 was an unforgettable year – from the global pandemic causing a worldwide shutdown to the racial reckoning around the world. Throughout the year, when people wanted to engage on Earth and space science issues, AGU was here to support us…I encourage you to read the Annual Report for more details on our projects and programs. On behalf of the Earth and space sciences community, thank you for your continued support.
On behalf of the Leadership Development / Governance Committee and the AGU Board, I am pleased to announce that David Shaw has agreed to serve as General Secretary through 2022.
As AGU’s president, I have the opportunity to award Presidential Citations. This year, we are honored to announce the recipients are the teams who created “Call for a Robust Anti-Racism Plan for the Geosciences” and “No Time for Silence.”