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appleton medal and prize -lrb- 2010 -rrb- climate change united massachusetts institute of technology nations environment programme , rutherford appleton laboratory , climateprediction.net myles allen
 myles allen
myles allen

myles r. allen is head of the climate dynamics group at the university of oxford 's atmospheric , oceanic and planetary physics department .
he is the principal investigator of the distributed computing project climateprediction.net -lrb- which makes use of computing resources provided voluntarily by the general public -rrb- , and was principally responsible for starting this project .
he is professor of geosystem science in the school of geography and the environment , and a fellow of linacre college , oxford .
he has worked at the energy unit of the united nations environment programme , the rutherford appleton laboratory in oxfordshire , and the massachusetts institute of technology .
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 was a review editor for the chapter on predictions of global climate change for the ipcc fourth assessment report .
his research focuses on the attribution of recent climate change and assessing what these changes mean for global climate simulations of the future .
in 2010 , allen was awarded the appleton medal and prize by the institute of physics for `` his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions '' .
allen also provided the technical expertise for the game fate of the world , which is `` a pc strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years . ''
