EESI Associate Receives Environmental Award

Penn State Professor and EESI Associate, Richard B. Alley, one of the members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, is being awarded the 2009 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

He will share the award with Veerabhadran Ramanathan, distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, with the University of California, San Diego.

Alley, Evan Pugh professor of geosciences, is being honored for his work on the relationships between the cryosphere and global warming, the vulnerability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and for creating awareness about the possibility for abrupt climate change and its possible impacts on society.

The prize committee recognized Alley andRamanathan “for their scientific contributions that advanced understanding of how human activities influence global climate, and alter oceanic, glacial and atmos pheric phenomena in ways that adversely affect plant Earth.”

The two will split the $200,000 award, which will be presented April 24 at a ceremony in Beverly Hills.