Richard Alley 
EESI Associate
Richard Alley
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987
Penn State Ice and Climate Exploration
EMS Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences
Contact Information:
Department of Geosciences
517 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-1700
email: ralley@essc.psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.geosc.psu.edu/
Center website: http://www.eesi.psu.edu/centers/ice.shtml
Current Research Interests:
Glaciology, ice sheet stability, paleoclimates from ice cores
Interpretation of paleoclimatic records from ice cores
Abrupt climate change
Physical properties of ice cores
Ice-sheet collapse and sea-level change
Erosion and sedimentation by ice sheet
Selected Publications:
Alley, R.B. Paleoclimatic insights into future climate challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , Series A 361(1810), 1831-1849 (2003), 10.1098/rsta.2003.1254.
Alley, R.B. The Younger Dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland . Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 213-226 (2000).
Alley, R.B. and P.U. Clark. The deglaciation of the northern hemisphere: a global perspective. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 27, 149-182 (1999).
Alley, R.B., S. Anandakrishnan and P. Jung. Stochastic resonance in the North Atlantic . Paleoceanography 16(2), 190-198 (2001).
Alley, R.B., E.J. Brook and S. Anandakrishnan, A northern lead in the orbital band:
North-south phasing of ice-age events. Quaternary Science Reviews 21(1-3), 431-441 (2002).