T. Scott Rupp
Interim IARC Director, Professor of Forestry
Faculty
Phone: 907-474-7535
Areas of Expertise:
Climate change
Climate modeling
Ecology
Wildfire
IARC projects I'm involved with:
Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning
Dr. Scott Rupp has been a faculty member at UAF since 2001 and is a proud UAF alumni (PhD, 1998). Dr. Rupp served as the Deputy Director of IARC for 9 years (2015-2024). He is a cofounder of the Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning and served as the director for 19 years. Dr. Rupp also served for 15 years as the University Director for the Department of Interior’s Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center.
Dr. Rupp has more than 30 years of experience in ecosystem modeling and climate change/climate impacts science. His work has focused on modeling the response of subarctic and arctic ecosystems to changes in global climate and disturbance regimes.
Dr. Rupp will serve IARC as Interim Director starting mid-March, 2026.