Presidential Forum keynote speaker Richard Alley, renowned glaciologist and climate scientist, at the 98th AMS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.

Eminent geologist and ace science communicator Richard Alley (Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University) addressed a rapt audience of hundreds in Austin, Texas, on Sunday at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society.

Wunderground: Alley is author of The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2011, he hosted the superb PBS series Earth: An Operator’s Manual