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 the next century, our species will face a multitude of challenges. A diverse and inclusive community of researchers ready to lead the way is essential to solving these global-scale challenges. While Earth and space science has made many positive contributions to society over the past century, our community has suffered from a lack of … Read more
This year, I decided to watch my carbon footprint so instead of driving to our off-the grid cabin for a long weekend, I took a bus. Bus connections are not perfect. So, the next thing I knew, I was standing in a museum looking at portraits of suffragettes and anti-suffragettes. The white dressed suffragettes stared … Read more
We are experimenting with the introduction of scientific “neighborhoods” – Earth Interior, Earth Covering, Beyond Earth, and Scientific Nexis – in New Orleans at the Fall Meeting. The convention center is very long and spread out, and so to make more time for conversation between disciplines and reduce travel time, the Poster Hall and Session … Read more
On 21 August, 2017, a solar eclipse swept across North America. Many AGU members were observing this wonder of our universe using everything from cutting-edge instruments to cardboard glasses ordered online. How different the faces studying the geophysics are now than they were in 1878 when Maria Mitchell of Vassar College was explicitly not invited … Read more
Editor’s Note: This week, we’ll be sharing reflections on the March for Science from AGU leaders. This is part two of three. Click here for part one and part three. As I stepped onto the train to Washington, D.C., I immediately sensed a palpable science vibe throughout the train. In the café car, the tables were … Read more
— By Robin Bell, President-elect, AGU I am honored to have been elected to serve as AGU’s president-elect in what is emerging as a challenging time for science. It is my hope that by working together through AGU we will meet this challenge and emerge stronger having conveyed a broader understanding of the importance and … Read more