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Alley receives Geological Society of America Public Service Award

Grant and Award Announcement

Penn State

Richard Alley, the Evan Pugh professor of geosciences, will receive the Geological Society of America's Public Service Award at its fall meeting in Houston.

Alley regularly responds to many national and international media as well as to inquiries from government offices on a routine basis. He is adept and ingenious at transforming the highly technical elements of global climate change to language that the general public can understand. His major focus of research is on glaciology, ice sheet stability, interpretation of paleoclimatic records from ice cores, abrupt climate change, ice-sheet collapse and sea-level change and erosion and sedimentation by ice sheets. He has provided briefings to senators, representatives, and high White House officials from both parties, and served on the Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Geological Society of America's Public Service Award in honor of Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker, was established in 1998 for contributions that have materially enhanced the public's understanding of the earth sciences, or significantly served decision-makers in the application of scientific and technical information in public affairs and public policy related to the earth sciences.

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