Joyce Bell

Joyce Elaine Rockenbach Bell (born c. 1927) is an American nursing teacher and entomologist.

She worked on insect taxonomy at the University of Vermont, together with her husband Ross Bell (1929–2019).

Their work built the UVM Entomological Collection into a significant resource for Northern New England.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Ross and Joyce extended the boundaries for their entomological work beyond Vermont, stretching as far as New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

[3] The Coleopterists Society offers an annual Ross Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant for "an outstanding proposal for beetle research whose work would otherwise not be funded", favouring taxonomy or systematics.