Phi Beta Kappa is pleased to announce that Dr. Richard Alley, the Carl F. Cranor Visiting Scholar of Phi Beta Kappa and Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences at Penn State, will be visiting UC Irvine on March 9-10th.  Dr. Alley has been honored for research (including election to the US National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Membership in the Royal Society), teaching, and service. Dr. Alley participated in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), and has provided requested advice to numerous government officials in multiple administrations. He has authored or coauthored over 300 refereed scientific papers. He was presenter for the PBS TV miniseries on climate and energy Earth: The Operators’ Manual, and author of the book. His popular account of climate change and ice cores, The Two-Mile Time Machine, won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. 

Dr. Alley before his public talk, “Finding the Good News on Energy and Environment,” at 6:00-7:30pm in the Crystal Cove auditorium that same day, the culminating event of his two-day visit, March 9-10th, to the UCI campus as the 2020 Carl F. Cranor PBK Visiting Scholar.  To view Dr. Alley’s bio and RSVP for his public talk, please click here.

Graduate students are invited to an informal luncheon with Dr. Alley, sponsored by the Department of Earth System Science, 12:30-2:00pm, Tuesday, March 10th, in Jenkins Room, Croul Hall 3101. Lunch will be provided, so we ask that you RSVP here to assist us with the catering order. 

Additionally, you are also invited to attend a Student Panel, 3:00-5:00pm, Tuesday, March 10th in SBSG 1517.  At this panel, undergraduates and graduate students will present their research and receive feedback from Dr. Alley.