Solutions Series
Alan Betts
Rules for Managing the Earth System
University of Vermont
March 16, 2010

Dr. Alan Betts of Atmospheric Research in Pittsford is Vermont's leading climate researcher. He is a frequent speaker on climate change issues around the state and served on two working groups of the Governor's Climate Change Commission. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the Royal Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a past-president of the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering. He is the author or co-author of more than 140 reviewed papers in the scientific literature. He was the AMS Robert E. Horton Lecturer in Hydrology, 2004; and the AMS Jule G. Charney Award winner in 2007. He is a commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a columnist for the Sunday Environment section of the Rutland Herald/Montpelier Times-Argus. Atmospheric Research was established in Vermont in 1979. Its mission is to understand the earth's climate, to develop improved earth system models, and to help society understand the deep challenge that global climate change presents to humanity.

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