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Richard Alley is an American geoscientist and professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his research on climate change, ice sheets, and sea level rise. He has written several books on the subject, including The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future.
Alley was born in Springfield, Ohio, and grew up in nearby Yellow Springs. He received his B.S. in geology from Ohio State University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1983.
Alley has been a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University since 1988. He has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was a contributing author to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report. He has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Alley is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received numerous awards, including the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the National Medal of Science, and the Vetlesen Prize.
As of 2021, Richard Alley is 63 years old. He has a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and a weight of 78 kg (172 lbs). His zodiac sign is Leo. He is married to his wife, Mary Jo Alley, and they have two children.
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On 28 April 2014 the National Center for Science Education announced that its first annual Friend of the Planet award had been presented to Alley and Michael E. Mann. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in the same year, his nomination reads:
He won the 2014 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change category for his “pioneering research” into the “mechanics of ice and its implications for abrupt climate change,” in the words of the jury’s citation. He is the 2017 recipient of the Wollaston Medal, which is the highest award given by the Geological Society of London. It is reserved for geologists who have made a significant impact on the field through a substantial body of impactful research.
Alley was educated at Ohio State University and University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was awarded a PhD in 1987.
In 2011, he received the 17th Annual Heinz Award with a special focus on the environment.
In addition to his research, Alley has made several appearances on television. On Sunday, April 10, 2011, PBS debuted a special program on climate change, entitled EARTH: The Operators’ Manual, hosted by Alley. The program's aim was to present an objective, accessible assessment of the Earth’s problems and possible solutions, with the stated intention of leaving viewers informed, energized and optimistic. The series continued through 2012 on PBS and affiliates. The series is accompanied by a book of the same name, also by Richard Alley. It was published on April 18, 2011. He has also appeared in episodes of the History Channel series Mega Disasters.
Alley gave the Bjerknes lecture to the 2009 American Geophysical Union meeting titled "The biggest control knob- Carbon Dioxide in Earth's climate history". A video of the presentation is available (also available on YouTube).
In 2008 Alley was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
Alley's 2007 testimony was due to his role as a lead author of "Chapter 4: Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground" for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has participated in the joint UN/WMO panel since 1992, having been a contributing author to both the second and third IPCC assessment reports.
Alley was awarded the Seligman Crystal in 2005 "for his prodigious contribution to our understanding of the stability of the ice sheets and glaciers of Antarctica and Greenland, and of erosion and sedimentation by this moving ice." Alley is one of several Penn State earth scientists who are contributors to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
In 2005 he was also the first recipient of the Louis Agassiz Medal for his "outstanding and sustained contribution to glaciology and for his effective communication of important scientific issues in the public policy arena". His award citation stated "He is imaginative, sharp and humorous, and remains a thorn in the backside of the Bush administration."
Alley has written several papers in the journals Nature and Science, and chaired the National Research Council on Abrupt Climate Change. In 2000, he published the book The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. He has appeared in numerous climate change-related television documentaries and has given many public presentations and media interviews about the subject.
In 1999, Alley was invited to testify about climate change by Vice President Al Gore, in 2003 by the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and before the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology in 2007 and again in 2010.
Richard Blane Alley (born 18 August 1957) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 240 refereed scientific publications about the relationships between Earth's cryosphere and global climate change, and is recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as a "highly cited researcher."
