Jonathan Louis Bamber is a British physicist known for his work on satellite remote sensing of the polar regions and especially the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. He has authored more than 180 refereed scientific publications about the cryosphere and its interaction with the rest of the Earth System, and is recognised by the Institute for Scientific Information as a "highly cited researcher”. In 2019 he was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union "For pioneering satellite remote sensing in glaciology and building bridges to other disciplines of the geoscience community." He is the first non-US scientist in the Cryosphere division to receive this honour.