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Dr. Richard Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of the Department of Geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He is one of the world’s leading climate scientists who studies how climate has changed in the past and how likely an abrupt change would be in the future. Dr. Alley examines ice sheets and glaciers in Antarctica, Greenland, and Alaska in order to build a record of the Earth’s climate over the past hundreds of thousands of years.

Dr. Alley has been honored with numerous awards for teaching and research, including the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement [1], the Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship, and election to the US National Academy of Sciences [2]. He was one of the lead authors for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (click here for AR4 and more reports by IPCC). The IPCC and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize 2007.

He has significant contributions to the study of ice and its link to climate. Dr. Alley has been very active in getting the word out to the general public and to policy makers. He has been featured in “Earth: The Operators’ Manual”, a PBS documentary on climate change and sustainable energy solutions that debuted in 2011. Dr. Alley was invited to testify about climate change by Former Vice President Al Gore in 1999, by the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in 2003, and by the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology in 2007 and 2010. [3]

Dr. Alley is happily married with two daughters, two cats, a bicycle, and a pair of soccer cleats. [4]

[1] The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an “international award to recognize those individuals who have contributed in an outstanding manner to the scientific knowledge and public leadership to preserve and enhance the environment of the world.”  (Source: http://tylerprize.usc.edu/about.html)

[2] “Election to NAS membership in the NAS is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.” (Source: http://www.nasonline.org/)

[3] National Council for Science and the Environment. “Keynote Speakers.” http://www.buildingclimatesolutions.org/topics/view/527931ee0cf2cad8a99b5bb1/

[4] “National Academy of Sciences Day Prize Lecture Series” http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/day-prize-lecture-series.html

阿利博士致力于研究巨大冰层来预测气候和海平面的变化，并且在南极洲，格陵兰岛和阿拉斯加都进行过实地考察。他在研究上取得过许多荣誉，包括美国国家科学院奖和Tylor环境成就奖，并且曾担任政府间气候变化专门委员会 (IPCC) 第四次报告的主要作者。在2007年，阿利博士作为在政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）第四次报告中做出杰出贡献的科学家之一，与艾伯特·阿诺·戈尔（Al Gore）[2] 一同获得了诺贝尔奖。

阿利博士在研究冰层与气候变化的领域中做出了杰出贡献。同时，他投身于将自己的研究成果普及给大众与政策制定者。他在PBS 上主持过气候与能源的节目。在1999年，2013年和2017年先后被美国副总统艾伯特·阿诺·戈尔、美国参议院商务、科学，运输委员会，美国众议院科学与科技委员会等机构邀请去资政佐证气候变化事宜。

[1] Evan Pugh 是PennState的第一任校长，为纪念他，并表彰有杰出贡献的教授，1960年，PennState设立Evan pugh 荣誉教授称号；至今仅有68位教授获此殊荣。

[2] Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr.，1993年至2001年间担任美国副总统。