Updated at 9:07 a.m., Saturday, March 10, 2007
Global-warming lecture offered free at UH-Manoa
Advertiser Staff
Richard Alley, described as one of the world's leading climate researchers, will talk about global warming and other issues during a lecture Tuesday night at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Campus Center Ballroom.The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m.
Alley's presentation is part of the UH-Manoa Distinguished Lecture Series centennial year program.
Alley, the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn St. University, has spent numerous field seasons in both Antarctica and Greenland studying the waxing and waning of ice sheets. His lecture presentation is titled, "Get Rich and Save the World: Global Warming, Peak Oil, and Our Future."
Alley has chaired a National Research Council study on Abrupt Climate Change, and serves, or has served, on other advisory panels and steering committees related to climate change.
In addition to publishing numerous scholarly articles on climate change and Earth's recent climate history, Alley's popular book 'The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future' (Princeton University Press) provides a firsthand account of his work drilling the Greenland ice sheet, and places the results of his own work in the context of global climate change research. The book received the 2001 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science.
In addition to being recognized as an exceptional scholar, he is well known as a source of accessible public information about climate change. He has been featured on TV (Nova, BBC), radio (NPR, Earth and Sky), and print outlets (New York Times, Time Magazine).
Alley will also lead a seminar — also open to the public at no charge — on the topic, "Fraying at the Edges — Sea Level and the Bizarre Behavior of Ice Sheets," from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday in the Architecture Auditorium on the Manoa campus.
