Richard Alley

Richard B. Alley ( born 1957 ) is an American geologist and professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications on the relationship between the cryosphere and global climate change events. At the Institute for Scientific Information, he is considered often cited author.

Professional career

Richard Alley received his BSc and Master of Sciences of the Geological Faculty of the Ohio State University. His Ph.D. he made in 1987 at the Geological Faculty of the University of Wisconsin- Madison. After a brief period as a post- graduate student, he was appointed to the Pennsylvania State University where he was Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences in 2000.

Work

Alley has published many scientific papers including in the journals Nature and Science. He gave evidence to the fact that in Earth have been large and abrupt climate change and contributed to the understanding of the mechanisms that have caused this. He chaired the National Research Council before about abrupt climate change, the book entitled " Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises " in 2002 ( " Abrupt climate change, inevitable surprises " German ) gave out.

Richard Alley belongs since 1992 to the authors of the IPCC. He has worked on the second and third progress report and was one of the main authors of the fourth chapter of the fourth assessment report entitled "Observations: . Changes in snow and ice and the frozen soil "

Richard B. Alley is or was the following bodies:

  • Abrupt Climate Change Panel of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Polar Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences;
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Panel of the American Geophysical Union
  • International Commission on Snow and Ice Working Group on the physics of ice cores
  • Earth System History Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation;
  • The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Project Executive Committee
  • WAISCORES West Antarctic Ice Sheet Coring Executive Committee
  • Ice Core Working Group
  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet and West Antarctic Ice Cores Projects
  • NOAA Abrupt Climate Change Panel
  • Polar Research Board

In addition, he is one of the editors of the jounals Quaternary Research and Geology.

Awards

Richard Alley was presented in 1996, the Hydrologic Sciences Award of the American Geophysical Union. In 2005 he was honored with the Seligman Crystal of the International Glaciological Society for his valuable contributions to the understanding of the stability of ice sheets and glaciers of Antarctica and Greenland and the erosion and sedimentation by this moving ice. He was in 2005 next to the first recipient of the Louis Agassiz Medal of the European Geosciences Union for his "outstanding and lasting contributions to glaciology and for its effective communication of important scientific problems in public ." In 2007 he was awarded the Roger Revelle - - Medal of the American Geophysical Union, in 2009, he was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and the 2012 Heinz Award. In 2014 he was awarded the Arthur L. Day Prize from the National Academy of Sciences.

Works

  • Richard Alley: EARTH: The Operators' Manual. WW Norton & Company, April 18, 2011, ISBN 978-0-393-08109-1.
  • Richard Alley: The Two - Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. Princeton University Press, July 1, 2002, ISBN 978-0-691-10296-2.
  • Richard Alley: Robert Bindschadler (eds.): The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Behavior and Environment ( Antarctic Research Series). American Geophysical Union, September 2000, ISBN 978-0-87590-957-8.
  • Richard Alley: Rocking the parks: Geological stories of the national parks. Kendall / Hunt Pub. Co, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7872-5706-4.
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