Penn State, Glaciologist: Richard Alley - Richard Alley is a Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. He earned Bachelor's (1980) and Master's (1983) degrees in Geology from Ohio State University, and earned his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1987). Richard studies ice cores -- samples of ice that record Earth's past climate. His research focuses on abrupt climate change, glaciers, ice sheet collapse and sea level change. He has participated in ice core drilling projects in Antarctica and Greenland and has won many awards for teaching and research.

Published Articles: Big Weather, Three Views on Global Warming , The Two-Mile Time Machine , Joho the Blog ,U.S. senate commission on commerce, Science & Transportation, Richard Alley to Discuss the Good Side of Global Warming at Osgood Lecture, "Earth System Dynamics: A Bumpy Ride"

University of Oxford, Principal Investigator Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics: Myles Allen is a University Lecturer in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford. He leads the Climate Dynamics group and is Principal Investigator of the climateprediction.net project, using distributed computing resources donated by the general public to perform the world's largest climate simulation experiment. After graduating in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford in 1987, he worked for two years in Nairobi, Kenya, including a stint at the Energy Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme where he became interested in the problem of climate change. He returned to Oxford to undertake a Doctorate in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, researcing internal climate variability. He then moved to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire to work on satellite missions for monitoring global change, and thence to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a NOAA Global Change Fellowship to work with Professor Richard Lindzen on the problem of quantifying uncertainty in climate analysis and prediction, which he has focussed on ever since. He contributed to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a Lead Author of the Chapter on detection of change and attribution of causes, and is a Review Editor for the chapter on predictions of global climate change for the IPCC Fourth Assessment. He is married with two children

Published Articles: What is climateprediction.net, How much carbon can we afford to emit?, The World Health Organisation estimates that 150,000 deaths each year,

University of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit, Dr. Nathan Gillett,

I read physics at Oxford, followed by a DPhil in atmospheric physics, supervised by Myles Allen, John Mitchell and Peter Read. My thesis was concerned with links between the atmospheric circulation and climate change, using observational analysis and modelling. I subsequently worked as a research associate at the University of Victoria, (Canada) for three years, working mainly on detection and attribution of anthropogenic influence on climate with Andrew Weaver and Francis Zwiers. I joined ENV as a lecturer in January 2005, where I have continued to pursue research on changes in atmospheric circulation, and detection and attribution of climate change. I am a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and an author of the WMO Stratospheric Ozone Assessment.

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