F. Stuart Chapin III (or Terry Chapin) (born February 2, 1944) is a professor of

Ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...

at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska. He was President of the

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(ESA) from August 2010 until 2011. The grandson of sociologist F. Stuart Chapin, Chapin III is better known to students and colleagues as 'Terry'. Chapin also serves as principal investigator of the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, and has a background in plant physiological ecology and

ecosystem ecology Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of living ( biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem framework. This science examines how ecosystems work and relates this to their components s ...

. His current research interests focus on the resilience of social-ecological systems. As director of the graduate educational program in Resilience and Adaptation at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Chapin studies human-fire interactions in the

boreal forest Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruc ...

. As President of ESA, he plans to address the "critical issue" of planetary stewardship. With Mary Power and Steward Pickett, Chapin is leading a Planetary Stewardship initiative “whose goal is to reorient society toward a more sustainable relationship with the

biosphere The biosphere (from Greek βίος ''bíos'' "life" and σφαῖρα ''sphaira'' "sphere"), also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος ''oîkos'' "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also ...

.”ESA Urban Ecology Section newsletter June 2010, retrieved January 26, 2011.
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Retrieved 27 September 2016.) In 2019 Terry Chapin won the

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. The jury citation states: "Professor Terry Chapin is not only a world-leading ecologist, he is also one of the world’s most profound thinkers and actors on stewardship of the Earth System. ..His work will have a long-lasting impact on the ways we seek to build a sustainable future, with the concept of Earth Stewardship supporting the deep institutional and structural change required to meet the challenges ahead."

Academic career

Awards, grants, and honors

* Guggenheim Fellowship, 1979–1980 * Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists, 1996 * Hill Professor, 1995 (Univ. of Minnesota) * Member Ecology Institute (Germany) 1986- * Usibelli Award (top researcher in all fields; Univ. of Alaska) 2000 * Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2000 * Member

Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry ( sv, Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien), formerly the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture (''Kungl. Lantbruksakademien''), founded in 1813 at the initiative of Crown Prince Charles, is on ...

2000 * Outstanding faculty member, University of Alaska (selected by students) 2002 * Fellow of

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2002 * Member National Academy of Sciences 2004 * Oosting lecture, Duke University 2004. US Forest Service Wilderness Research Award on behalf of the Resilience and Adaptation Program. * Sustainability Science Award, 2008 (F. Stuart Chapin, III and Colleagues).

2019

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Personal website
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Academic career

Awards, grants, and honors

Notable publications

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