Ted Schuur

Dr. Ted Schuur is a Regents’ Professor in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University. He is an ecologist who has studied links between ecosystems and climate in locations across Alaska and the Arctic and is a leader in scientific research on the risk of Arctic carbon emissions to global climate. His work has helped to define an emerging body of literature connecting the influence of individual ecosystems and biomes to Earth system function. His work on this topic has included more than two decades of field research and, in this time, has resulted in almost 250 peer-reviewed publications including in high-impact journals such as Science, Nature, and the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences as well as numerous book chapter, reports, and published abstracts in the proceedings of scientific meetings. These publications have garnered over 50,000 citations; he is a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher ranking in the top 1% for the past eight years and was named in the upper 5% of the 2021 Reuters List of Top 1000 Climate Scientists. He participates in multiple national and international science meetings, workshops, panels, and steering committees on the topic of ecology and the environment, including as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. He is the also the lead investigator for the Permafrost Carbon Network, an international consortium of researchers aimed at synthesizing new knowledge on permafrost carbon and climate. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS from the University of Michigan, and he received a PhD from the University of California-Berkeley. In 2019, he was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.