Public Invited To Nobel Prize Winner’s Climate Change Address Oct. 26 In Harrisburg

The departments of Environmental Protection and Conservation and Natural Resources are hosting Nobel Prize winner Dr. Richard Alley in an upcoming public appearance where he will address the effects of climate change on Pennsylvania.

Dr. Alley will speak at 12:30 p.m. October 26, in the auditorium of the Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market St., Harrisburg.

The Evan Pugh professor of geosciences at the Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Alley was awarded the Seligman Crystal and was one of several Penn State earth scientists contributing to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore.

He was the first recipient of the Louis Agassiz Medal and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

For more information on climate change and Pennsylvania, visit DEP’s Climate Change webpage.