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Personal profile
Biography
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).
Research Interests:
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)
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Research Output
Abundance changes of marsh plant species over 40 years are better explained by niche position water level than functional traits
Lou, Y., Kapfer, J., Smith, P., Liu, Y., Jiang, M., Lu, X. & Ashcrof, M., 3 Jul 2020, In : Ecological Indicators. 117, 7 p., 106639.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Achieving Net Zero emissions: The oil and gas industry is a major component of the solution
Hastings, A. & Smith, P., 12 May 2020, p. 1-7. 7 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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A deep dive into the modelling assumptions for biomass with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): A transparency exercise
Butnar, I., Li, P. H., Strachan, N., Portugal Pereira, J., Gambhir, A. & Smith, P., Aug 2020, In : Environmental Research Letters. 15, 8, 16 p., 084008.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Calibration and validation of the DNDC model to estimate nitrous oxide emissions and crop productivity for a summer maize-winter wheat double cropping system in Hebei, China
Abdalla, M., Song, X., Ju, X., Topp, C. F. E. & Smith, P., 25 Feb 2020, In : Environmental Pollution. 262, 114199.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops
Ledo, A., Smith, P., Zerihun, A., Whitaker, J., Vicente-Vicente, J. L., Qin, Z., McNamara, N. P., Zinn, Y. L., Llorente, M., Liebig, M., Kuhnert, M., Dondini, M., Don, A., Diaz-Pines, E., Datta, A., Bakka, H., Aguilera, E. & Hillier, J., Jul 2020, In : Global Change Biology. 26, 7, p. 4158-4168 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Datasets
The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region
Ding, J. (Creator), Wang, T. (Creator), Piao, S. (Creator), Smith, P. (Creator), Zhang, G. (Creator), Yan, Z. (Creator), Ren, S. (Creator), Liu, D. (Creator), Wang, S. (Creator), Chen, S. (Creator), Dai, F. (Creator), He, J. (Creator), Liu, Y. (Creator), Mao, J. (Creator), Arain, A. (Creator), Tian, H. (Creator), Shi, X. (Creator), Yang, Y. (Creator), Zeng, N. (Creator) & Zhao, L. (Creator), Figshare, 16 Aug 2019
https://figshare.com/s/4374f28d880f366eff6d
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Press / Media
Top climate scientist: I put myself through hell as an IPCC convening lead author, but it was worth it
15/08/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Articles in 'The Conversation'
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere won’t save us: we have to cut emissions now
7/12/15
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Articles in 'The Conversation'
Prizes
Philippe Duchaufour Medal of European GeoSciences Union (EGU)
Smith, Pete (Recipient), 25 Apr 2017
Prize: Awards, Distinctions, Medals, and Prizes
Impacts
Carbon-calculating: the development of Scottish Windfarms
Joanne Smith (Coordinator), Pete Smith (Coordinator) & Dali Nayak (Coordinator)
Impact: Quality of life Impacts
Inorganic arsenic in rice bran and its products are an order of magnitude
Pete Smith (Coordinator), Jon Hillier (Coordinator) & Joanne Smith (Coordinator)
Impact: Quality of life Impacts