Biography:
Alan Betts completed his PhD at the age of 25 years from Imperial College, London. He is the director of Atmospheric Research and a climate advisor to Vermont. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the Royal Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of more than 175 reviewed papers in the scientific literature. He was the the AMS Jule Charney Award winner in 2007. In 2016, Alan Betts was the first recipient of the Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award from the American Geophysical Union. Atmospheric Research was established in Vermont in 1979 to understand the Earth’s weather and climate, and to help society understand the existential challenge of global climate change and how to deal with it.
