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.
