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Member Since 1986
Richard B. Alley
Professor, Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
Professional Experience
Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
Professor, Geosciences
1988 - Present
Education
University of Wisconsin Madison
Doctorate
1987
Honors & Awards
Publications
Regional CO2 Inversion Through Ensemble‐Based Simultaneous State and Parameter Estimation: TRACE Fra...
Atmospheric inversions provide estimates of carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes between the surface and atmosphere based on atmospheric CO2 concentration o...
February 25, 2023
Bedforms of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: Character and...
November 25, 2021
Application of Constitutive Friction Laws to Glacier Seismic...
October 26, 2020
Temperature-Driven Bubble Migration as Proxy for Internal Bu...
September 11, 2019
AGU Abstracts
Characterization of Ice Shelf Fracture Vertical Morphology Across Antarctica
ONLINE POSTER SESSION FOR CRYOSPHERE SCIENCES IV
cryosphere | 23 january 2024
Shujie Wang, Zhengrui Huang, Richard B. Alley, Pat...
Fractures are critical structural features on glaciers and ice shelves, significantly impacting calving behavior and flow dynamics. Understanding the ...
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Chessboard Subgrain Boundaries May Serve as Preferred Pathways for Ice-Fracture Propagation and Explain the Development of Brittle-Ice
ICE CORE RECORDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IV POSTER
cryosphere | 13 december 2023
Samantha Barnett, John M. Fegyveresi, Richard B. A...
Ice cores provide highly valuable paleoenvironmental data, but records can be degraded by the occurrence of fractured brittle ice. Following bubble cl...
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Temperature reconstruction from measured bubble number-density evolution in the South Pole Ice Core since the Late Glacial (18.5 ka)
ICE CORE RECORDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IV POSTER
cryosphere | 13 december 2023
John M. Fegyveresi, Richard B. Alley, Joan J. Fitz...
Using samples from the South Pole Ice Core (SPC14), we reconstruct the temperature history back to ~18.5 ka based on updated bubble number-density mea...
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Volunteer Experience
2021 - 2023
Member
College of Fellows New Frontiers Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Art+Science
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