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| Born | Peter Smith |
| Awards | Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2008) Philippe Duchaufour Medal (2017) |
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| Institutions | University of Aberdeen MAFF Central Science Laboratory Rothamsted Research |
| Website | www |
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]
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]
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]
Keith Peter Shine FRS is the Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at the University of Reading. He is the first holder of this post, which was awarded to the university by Queen Elizabeth II to mark her Diamond Jubilee.
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Lorna Anne Dawson CBE FRSE is professor and head of soil forensics at the James Hutton Institute, Scotland, who is an Expert witness, Chartered Scientist, and registered expert with the National Crime Agency. She won the award of Soil Forensic Expert Witness of the Year in the Corporate INTL 2021 Global Awards for her forensic research solving major criminal cases, including the World's End pub murders. She had won a special Pride of Britain Award by The Daily Mirror in 2017, for her role in solving long standing criminal cases, and her science communications. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, with international academic recognition.
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