# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-b-alley
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:06:52.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-b-alley"
name: "Richard B. Alley"
slug: "richard-b-alley"
description: "Richard Blane Alley is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 240 refereed scientific publications about the relationships between Earth's cryosphere and global climate change, and is recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as a Highly Cited Researcher."
tagline: "American geologist, author, and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Richard_Alley_ForMemRS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.410728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Alley"
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    title: "Richard Alley"
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    title: "Richard Alley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump