Robin Elizabeth Bell is Palisades Geophysical Institute (PGI) Lamont Research Professor at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and a past President of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019–2021. Dr. Bell was influential in co-ordinating the 2007 International Polar Year and was the first woman to chair the National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board. She has made numerous important discoveries with regard to subglacial lakes and ice sheet dynamics, and has a ridge, called Bell Buttress, in Antarctica named after her.
Robin Bell (scientist)
Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
The Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) is the Earth Science research center of Columbia University. It focuses on climate and earth sciences and is located on a 189-acre campus in Palisades, New York, 18 miles (29 km) north of Manhattan on the Hudson River.
Entrance to Columbia University's Lamont Campus on Rt. 9W in Palisades, N.Y.
The Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Laboratory Building, home of the Geochemistry Division at the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
R/V Marcus G. Langseth, operated by the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
LDEO scientist Robin Bell at her computer showing a mountain range found under the Antarctic ice.
