Pete Smith

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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., 17 Jun 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Ecological Indicators.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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

1 Citation (Scopus)

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., 15 May 2020, In : Global Change Biology. 26, 7, p. 4158-4168 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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Characterising the biophysical, economic and social impacts of soil carbon sequestration as a greenhouse gas removal technology

Sykes, A. J., MacLeod, M., Eory, V., Rees, R. M., Payen, F., Myrgiotis, V., Williams, M., Sohi, S., Hillier, J., Moran, D., Manning, D. A. C., Goglio, P., Seghetta, M., Williams, A., Harris, J., Dondini, M., Walton, J., House, J. & Smith, P., Mar 2020, In : Global Change Biology. 26, 3, p. 1085-1108 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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Civil disobedience movements such as School Strike for the Climate are raising public awareness of the climate change emergency

Thackeray, S. J., Robinson, S. A., Smith, P., Bruno, R., Kirschbaum, M. U. F., Bernacchi, C., Byrne, M., Cheung, W., Cotrufo, M. F., Gienapp, P., Hartley, S., Janssens, I., Hefin Jones, T., Kobayashi, K., Luo, Y., Penuelas, J., Sage, R., Suggett, D. J., Way, D. & Long, S., Mar 2020, In : Global Change Biology. 26, 3, p. 1042-1044 3 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

Open Access

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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