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Pete Smith
FRS FRSB FRSE
Smith in 2017
Born
Peter Smith
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2008)
Philippe Duchaufour Medal (2017)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Aberdeen
MAFF Central Science Laboratory
Rothamsted Research
Websitewww.abdn.ac.uk/ibes/profiles/pete.smith

Pete Smith is a Scottish climate change scientist who is Professor of Soils and Global change at the University of Aberdeen where he directs the Scottish Climate Change Centre of Expertise, ClimateXChange.[2][3][4][5]

Research and career

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Smith's research investigates global change, soils, carbon sequestration, climate change and climate change mitigation.[6][1][7] Since 1996, he has served as convening lead author, lead author and author for part of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,[8] which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.[9] He is a global ecosystem modeller with interests in agriculture, food security, bioenergy, greenhouse gases and greenhouse gas removal technologies.[9]

His research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), European Union, the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD), the Cruickshank Trust Fund, the World Bank, the Met Office, the International Fertilizer Industry Association, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Unilever, the Hewlett Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Greenpeace International, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Scottish Government, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), the James Hutton Institute and the Welsh Government.[10][11]

Awards and honours

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Smith held a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award from 2008 to 2013[9] and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology since 2008 and a Fellow of the Institute of Soil Scientists since 2015. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2009,[9] awarded the British Ecological Society Marsh Award for Climate Change Research in 2014 and the Philippe Duchaufour Medal from the European Geosciences Union for ‘distinguished contributions to soil science’ in 2017.[9] He was also a research fellow at Rothamsted Research from 2010 to 2015 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b Peter Smith publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "ClimateXChange". climatexchange.org.uk.
  3. ^ Peter Smith, University of Aberdeen: All countries must be on board, in emission reduction targets on YouTube, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  4. ^ Janssens, Ivan A.; Freibauer, Annette; Ciais, Philippe; Smith, Pete; Nabuurs, Gert-Jan; Folberth, Gerd; Schlamadinger, Bernhard; Hutjes, Ronald W. A.; Ceulemans, Reinhart (2003). "Europe's terrestrial biosphere absorbs 7 to 12% of European anthropogenic CO₂ emissions". Science. 300 (5625): 1538–1542. Bibcode:2003Sci...300.1538J. doi:10.1126/science.1083592. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 12764201. S2CID 45159989.
  5. ^ Schröter, Dagmar; Cramer, Wolfgang; Leemans, Rik; Prentice, I. Colin; Araújo, Miguel B.; Arnell, Nigel W.; Bondeau, Alberte; Bugmann, Harald; Carter, Timothy R. (2005). "Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe". Science. 310 (5752): 1333–1337. Bibcode:2005Sci...310.1333S. doi:10.1126/science.1115233. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 16254151. S2CID 7969786.
  6. ^ Smith, Pete; Martino, Daniel; Cai, Zucong; Gwary, Daniel; Janzen, Henry; Kumar, Pushpam; McCarl, Bruce; Ogle, Stephen; O'Mara, Frank (2008). "Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 363 (1492): 789–813. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2184. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 2610110. PMID 17827109. Open access icon
  7. ^ 57201748498 Peter Smith publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ^ Metz, Bert; Davidson, Ogunlade; Bosch, Peter; Dave, Rutu; Meyer, Leo, eds. (2007). Climate change 2007 : mitigation of climate change : contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521705981. OCLC 166626221.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Anon (2017). "Professor Peter Smith FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ^ Smith, Pete (2017). "Professor Peter Smith FRS, FRSE, FRSB, F I Soil Sci". Archived from the original on 29 March 2017.
  11. ^ Anon (2017). "UK government research grants awarded to Pete Smith". rcuk.ac.uk. Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017.
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