Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
Research activity per year
After obtaining a PhD in 1991, Pete Smith worked as a Higher- then Senior-Scientific Officer at the MAFF Central Science Laboratory until 1994. He then worked as a Band 6 and Band 5 Senior Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research before joining the University of Aberdeen as a Senior Lecturer in 2001.
He became a Reader in 2003, and Professor of Soils & Global Change in 2005. His main areas of expertise are in modelling greenhouse gas / carbon mitigation, bioenergy, biological carbon sequestration, global food systems modelling and greenhouse gas removal technologies.
He is co-leader with Prof Jo Smith of the Environmental Modelling Group (2 Academic staff, 2 Senior Reseatch Fellows, 18 Post-docs, 19 PhDs). He is also Science Director of Scotland's Climate Change Centre of Expertise (www.climatexchange.org.uk), and was Director of Food Systems of the Scottish Food Security Alliance-Crops (www.sfsa-crops.org), and Theme Leader of the University-wide theme, Environment and Food Security (www.abdn.ac.uk/environment-food-security/), until 2015. He is editor for Global Change Biology and Global Change Biology Bioenergy.
He was a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award holder (2008-2013), Royal Society Research Fellow (2008-2013), and is a Fellow of the Society of Biology (FSB; elected 2008), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE; elected 2009), a Rothamsted Research Fellow (2010-2015) and Fellow of the Royal Society (London; elected 2017).
Global change impacts on ecosystems, soils, agricultural and land based options to mitigate climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental and agricultural sustainability, global carbon cycle, ecosystem modelling, food security, ecosystem services, bioenergy (including BECCS)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Molotoks, A. V. (Creator), Henry, R. (Creator), Stehfest, E. (Creator), Doelman, J. (Creator), Havlík, P. (Creator), Krisztin, T. (Creator), Alexander, P. (Creator), Dawson, T. P. (Creator) & Smith, P. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 3 Dec 2019
Dataset
Smith, P. (Contributor), Powlson, D. (Contributor), Glendining, M. (Contributor), Smith, J. (Contributor) & Paton, G. (Data Manager), DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Repository, 1 Jan 2003
DOI: 10.3334/cdiac/tcm.004, https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1389521/ and one more link, https://doi.org/10.3334%2Fcdiac%2Ftcm.004 (show fewer)
Dataset
Robertson, G. P. (Contributor), Hamilton, S. (Contributor), Paustian, K. (Contributor) & Smith, P. (Contributor), DRYAD, 1 Jan 2022
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ghx3ffbr1, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.ghx3ffbr1
Dataset
Verhagen, J. (Creator), Arias-Navarro, C. (Creator), Keesstra, S. (Creator), Kuikman, P. (Creator), Smith, P. (Creator) & Soussana, J. (Creator), Portail Data INRAE, 2019
DOI: 10.15454/fupob8, https://doi.org/10.15454%2Ffupob8
Dataset
Molotoks, A. (Contributor), Henry, R. (Contributor), Stehfest, E. (Contributor), Doelman, J. (Contributor), Havlík, P. (Contributor), Krisztin, T. (Contributor), Alexander, P. (Contributor), Dawson, T. P. (Contributor) & Smith, P. (Contributor), DRYAD, 1 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.sj3tx961p, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.sj3tx961p
Dataset
Junyi Wang (Speaker), Pete Smith (Author), Matthias Kuhnert (Author) & Mohamed Abdalla (Author)
Activity: Disseminating Research › Presentation
Junyi Wang (Speaker), Pete Smith (Author), Mohamed Abdalla (Author) & Matthias Kuhnert (Author)
Activity: Disseminating Research › Presentation
Junyi Wang (Speaker), Pete Smith (Author), Mohamed Abdalla (Author), Matthias Kuhnert (Author), Longlong Xia (Author) & Jianwen Zou (Author)
Activity: Disseminating Research › Presentation
Anita Shepherd (Panel participant), Astley Hastings (Speaker) & Pete Smith (Speaker)
Activity: Other External Responsibilities › Other
Pete Smith (Organiser), Pete Smith (Chair) & Pete Smith (Invited speaker)
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising Workshop, seminar, or course
Duncan, Sylvia (Recipient), Flint, Harry (Recipient), Francis, Jill (Recipient), Johnston, Marie (Recipient), Louis, Petra (Recipient), Prosser, James (Recipient), Scott, Karen (Recipient), Smith, Pete (Recipient) & Walker, Alan (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Other distinction
Smith, Pete (Recipient), 25 Apr 2017
Prize: Awards, Distinctions, Medals, and Prizes
Joanne Smith (Coordinator), Pete Smith (Coordinator) & Dali Nayak (Coordinator)
Impact: Quality of life Impacts
Pete Smith (Coordinator), Joanne Smith (Coordinator), Jonathan George Hillier (Participant), Euan Phimister (Participant) & Paul Hallett (Participant)
Impact
Pete Smith (Coordinator), Jon Hillier (Coordinator) & Joanne Smith (Coordinator)
Impact: Quality of life Impacts
Jennie Macdiarmid (Coordinator), Heine Richard De Ruiter (Participant) & Pete Smith (Participant)
Impact: Public policy Impacts