Courses:
NRM 340 - Natural Resource Measurements and Inventory 
NRM 694 - Regional Sustainability 

Research Interests: Ecosystem and landscape ecology emphasizing secondary succession, regeneration, and disturbance dynamics in subarctic and boreal forest.

Current Research Programs:
1) Modeling boreal forest dynamics,
2) Fuel loading,
3) Developing custom fuel models,
4) Fire risk analysis,
5) Fire-climate interactions,
6) Long-term ecological research (LTER)

Examples of Research Support:
"Assessing the Vulnerability of Human Populations to Wildfire in the Lake States", US Forest Service, $85,000, 2001-present.

"Development of a Computer Model for Management of Fuels, Human-Fire Interactions, and Wildland Fires in the Boreal Forest of Alaska", USDI/USDA Joint Fire Science Program, $442,000, 2001-present.

"An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Role of Climate-Vegetation-Fire Interactions in Boreal Forests Responses to Climatic Change", National Science Foundation, $160,000, 2001-present.

Examples of Publications:
Turner, M.G., S.L. Collins, A.L. Lugo, J.J. Magnuson, T.S. Rupp, and F.J. Swanson. 2003. Disturbance Dynamics and Ecological Response: The Contribution of Long-term Ecological Research. BioScience 53(1):46-56.

Rupp, T.S., A.M. Starfield, F.S. Chapin III, and P. Duffy. 2002. Modeling the impact of black spruce on the fire regime of Alaskan boreal forest. Climatic Change 55: 213-233.

Rupp, T.S., F.S. Chapin III, and A.M. Starfield. 2001. Modeling the influence of topographic barriers on treeline advance of the forest-tundra ecotone in northwestern Alaska. Climatic Change 48: 399-416.

Rupp, T.S., A.M. Starfield, and F.S. Chapin III. 2000. A frame-based spatially explicit model of subarctic vegetation response to climatic change: comparison with a point model. Landscape Ecology 15: 383-400..

Rupp, T.S., F.S. Chapin III, and A.M. Starfield. 2000. Response of subarctic vegetation to transient climatic change on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska. Global Change Biology 6: 451-455.