Dr Craig Smeaton

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

cs244@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research focuses on carbon in coastal and near-shore systems over multiple timescales (Holocene to present day). Through the investigation of the sediments we can better understand the rates at which carbon is buried and the magnitude of the carbon the stores within these environments. An area of particular interest is understanding the role of the terrestrial environment in the development of these coastal carbon stores.  I explore this topic by bringing together methodologies from sedimentology, marine geophysics and geochemistry.

Selected publications

• Blue carbon audit of Orkney waters

  Porter, J., Austin, W., Burrows, M., Clarke, D., Davies, G., Kamenos, N., Riegel, S., Smeaton, C., Page, C. & Want, A., 13 Jan 2020, Marine Scotland. 96 p. (Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Reports; vol. 11, no. 3)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Commissioned report

• Coring and compaction: best practice in blue carbon stock and burial estimations

  Smeaton, C., Barlow, N. & Austin, W., 1 Apr 2020, In : Geoderma. 364, C, 114180.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Falkland Island peatland development processes and the pervasive presence of fire

  Mauquoy, D., Payne, R., Babeshko, K., Bartlett, R., Boomer, I., Bowey, H., Evans, C., Ring-Hrubesh, F., Muirhead, D., O'Callaghan, M., Piotrowska, N., Rush, G., Sloan, T., Smeaton, C., Tsyganov, A. & Mazei, Y., 14 Jun 2020, In : Quaternary Science Reviews. 240, 11 p., 106391.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Fjords as Aquatic Critical Zones (ACZs)

  Bianchi, T., Arndt, S., Austin, W., Benn, D. I., Bertrand, S., Cui, X., Faust, J., Koziorowska-Makuch, K., Moy, C., Savage, C., Smeaton, C., Smith, R. & Syvitski, J., Apr 2020, In : Earth Science Reviews. 203, 103145.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Impacts of climate change on coastal habitats, relevant to the coastal and marine environment around the UK

  Burden, A., Smeaton, C., Angus, S., Garbutt, A., Jones, L., Lewis, H. & Rees, S., 15 Jan 2020, In : MCCIP Science Review 2020. p. 228-255 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Quantifying Marine Sedimentary Carbon: a new spatial analysis approach using seafloor acoustics, imagery, and ground-truthing data in Scotland

  Hunt, C. A., Demsar, U., Dove, D., Smeaton, C., Cooper, R. & Austin, W., 25 Jun 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Frontiers in Marine Science.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Re-evaluating Scotland?s sedimentary carbon stocks

  Smeaton, C., Austin, W. & Turrell, W., 24 Feb 2020, 2 ed. Marine Scotland. 20 p. (Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science; vol. 11, no. 2)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Commissioned report

• An assessment of the tea bag index method as a proxy for organic matter decomposition in intertidal environments

  Marley, A., Smeaton, C. & Austin, W. E. N., 16 Oct 2019, In : Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. Early View, 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Organic carbon rich sediments: benthic foraminifera as bio-indicators of depositional environments

  Lo Giudice Cappelli, E., Clarke, J., Smeaton, C., Davidson, K. & Austin, W. E. N., 6 Nov 2019, In : Biogeosciences. 16, p. 4183-4199 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Where's the carbon: exploring the spatial heterogeneity of sedimentary carbon in mid-latitude fjords

  Smeaton, C. & Austin, W. E. N., 24 Oct 2019, In : Frontiers in Earth Sciences. 7, 16 p., 00269.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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