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Posted at 2:08 a.m., Monday, March 12, 2007

Climate expert to speak at UH

Advertiser Staff

A leading climate researcher who has spent numerous field seasons in both Antarctica and Greenland studying the waxing and waning of ice sheets will be the featured speaker Tuesday at the University of Hawai'i's Distinguished Lecture Series.

Richard Alley, an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn St. University. Alley, will be presenting "Get Rich and Save the World: Global Warming, Peak Oil, and Our Future," at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the UH Manoa Campus Center Ballroom.

It is free and open to the public.

He will speak at UH again on Thursday from 3 p.m. to 5 .m. in another free presentation "Fraying at the Edges – Sea Level and the Bizarre Behavior of Ice Sheets." That lecture will be held in the Architecture Auditorium on the Manoa campus.

Among Alley's credentials listed in a UH news release:

He chaired a National Research Council study on Abrupt Climate Change

He serves, or has served, on other advisory panels and steering committees related to climate change.

Alley's book The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future (Princeton University Press) provides a first hand account of his own 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.

He is a source of accessible public information about climate change, including appearance on TV (Nova, BBC), radio (NPR, Earth and Sky), and print outlets (New York Times, Time Magazine).

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