We are delighted to announce the return of the Polar Seminar series starting next Thursday (4/16) at 2:00 pm! Our speaker will be Dr. Richard Alley, the Evan Pugh University Professor of Geoscience at Penn State Univ. He will be presenting a talk entitled "Collapsing ice sheets and the climate conversation". The seminar will be held remotely through Zoom with a meeting link to be sent out.

For over 40 years, Dr. Alley has studied ice sheets to help predict future changes in climate and sea level. He has authored or coauthored more than 300 refereed scientific papers and has been honored with election to the US National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Membership in the Royal Society. Dr. Alley has testified before Congress, 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 is also a renowned science communicator, as the presenter for the PBS TV miniseries on climate and energy Earth: The Operators’ Manual, and author of the book.