Terry Callaghan

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|birth_place = Stockport

|birth_name = Terence Vincent Callaghan

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|nationality = British

|field = Ecology

|work_institutions = University of Sheffield
Tomsk State University

| education = Burnage Grammar School

|alma_mater = University of Manchester (BSc)
University of Birmingham (PhD)

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| thesis_title = Ecophysiological and taxonic studies on bi-polar Phleum alpinum L.

| thesis_year = 1972

| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/911142098

|known_for = Arctic ecology

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|prizes = Zayed International Prize for the Environment (2007)

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Terence Vincent Callaghan {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (born 1945){{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Callaghan, Prof. Terence Vincent | id = U290267 | year = 2017 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U290267| edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}} is a British biologist specialized in the ecology of the Arctic. Much of his work on arctic plants has taken place in Abisko in northernmost Sweden, based at the Abisko Scientific Research Station where he served as director.{{cite journal |last1=Johansson |first1=Margareta |last2=Christensen |first2=Torben R.|last3=Akerman |first3=H. Jonas|last4=Callaghan |first4=Terry V.|author-link4=Terry Callaghan |date=2006 |title=What Determines the Current Presence or Absence of Permafrost in the Torneträsk Region, a Sub-arctic Landscape in Northern Sweden? |journal=Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=190–197 |doi=10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35[190:WDTCPO]2.0.CO;2 |pmid=16944644 |s2cid=45127318 }}{{cite journal|last1=Potter|first1= Jacqueline A.|first2=Malcolm C. |last2=Press|first3=Terry V.|last3= Callaghan|first4=John A. |last4=Lee|year=1995|title=Growth Responses of Polytrichum commune and Hylocomium splendens to Simulated Environmental Change in the Sub-Arctic|journal=New Phytologist|volume=131 |issue=4|pages=533–41|doi=10.1111/j.1469-8137.1995.tb03089.x|pmid= 33863118|doi-access=free}} He was a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Reports chapter on polar regions.{{Cite journal |pmc = 3535064|year = 2012|last1 = Johansson|first1 = M.|title = The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Professor Terry V. Callaghan and His 3M Concept|journal = Ambio|volume = 41|issue = Suppl 3|pages = 175–177|last2 = Jonasson|first2 = C.|last3 = Sonesson|first3 = M.|last4 = Christensen|first4 = T. R.|pmid = 22864691|doi = 10.1007/s13280-012-0300-7}}{{YouTube|id=Tv6q2fxKNa8|title=Climate research from the couch: Interview with Professor Terry Callaghan}}

Education and early life

Callaghan was born in Stockport and grew up in Levenshulme in Manchester{{cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/from-levy-to-the-nobel-prize-950642|website=manchestereveningnews.co.uk|author=Anon|year=2013|publisher=Manchester Evening News|title=From Levy to the Nobel Prize}} and was educated at Burnage Grammar School. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manchester in 1967 and a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 1972 for ecophysiological and taxonic studies on Phleum alpinum.{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Terence Vincent|last=Callaghan |title=Ecophysiological and taxonic studies on bi-polar Phleum alpinum L. |publisher=University of Birmingham |date=1972 |url=https://birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/vmc2c6/44BIR_ALMA_DS2178390320004871 |website=exlibrisgroup.com |oclc=911142098 |doi= |hdl=}}

Career and research

Callaghan's research has focussed on the arctic and subarctic environment and the ecology of plants,{{cite q|Q30446383}} animals, and ecosystem processes,{{cite q|Q33351730}}{{cite q|Q33501895}} including ecological responses to climate change,{{cite q|Q34089721}}{{cite q|Q59072344}} atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and UV-B radiation. He has held academic positions at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, the University of Sheffield, the University of Manchester, the University of York and Tomsk State University.{{Official URL}}

=Awards and honours=

Callaghan was awarded the Zayed International Prize for the Environment in 2007, the Vega Medal by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2011, the International Arctic Science Committee medal in 2017. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to advancing knowledge and international collaboration in Arctic science.

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