![Professor Astley Hastings Professor Astley Hastings](/img/200x200/staffpages/assets/images/default-profile-picture.jpg)
BSc, MSc, PhD, MIMechE, CEng.
Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- astley.hastings@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
G43 23 St Machar Drive Aberdeen AB24 3UU UK
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
1968-1971 Graduate Apprenticeship with English Electric/Lanchester Polytechnic. Gained a BSc in Mechanical engineering. CEng in 1974.
1971-1972 Postgraduate research (wet steam turbines) at Lanchester Polytechnic.
1972-1973 Schlumberger, Field engineer, Burgos and St Carlos, Spain
1974-1975 Schlumberger, Lead engineer, Siracusa,Crotone & Pescara, Italy.
1975-1977 Schlumberger, Training Center Manager, Livingstone, Scotland
1977-1980 Schlumberger, District Manager Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
1980-1981 Schlumberger, Product Development Engineer, Paris, France.
1981-1985 Schlumberger, South American Interpretation Manager. Caracas, Venezuela.
1986-1989 Schlumberger, Principle Scientist, Schlumberger DRC, Ridgefield, Ct, USA.
1989-1993 Schlumberger, Marketing Director United Kingdom. Aberdeen.
1993-1995 Schlumberger, Marketing Manager Europe & FSU. Hannover, Germany
1995-1998 Schlumberger, Corporate New Technology Manager, Paris, France.
1999-2003 Schlumberger, Evaluation Services Manager - North Africa, Algeria
2003-2004 Schlumberger, Operations Manager-N Africa. Hassi-Messaoud, Algeria.
2004-2005 MSc. Environmental Science – University of Aberdeen.
2004-2008 PhD in Systems Biology –University of Aberdeen
2008-2014 Research Fellow –University of Aberdeen
2014-2017 Senior Research Fellow –University of Aberdeen
2017-present Reader –University of Aberdeen
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Line Manager.
Co-Champion of CCUS and Nature Based Solutions Theme.
- External Memberships
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Member of the Academic Assessment Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Memeber of the Advanced Apprenticeship Committe of IMechE
Program committee Memeber for the EUROPEC meeting a collaboration of the EAGE and SPE.
Paper selection Committee for Offshore Europe SPE technical meeting.
Reviewer for Biomass and Bioenergy, GCB, GCB-B, AgForMEt, AGEE, JPT, JCPT, SPE-FE, Sustainable agriculture, Bioenergy Research, European Journal of Forest Research, Environmental Science and Technology, Soil and Tillage research.
Project Reviewer for Ireland EPA, DECC-UK, Croatian Science Foundation, FAO, University of Hong Kong.
Yachtmaster
- Research
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Research Overview
Currently a reader in environmental science in the Institute of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Aberdeen conducting research into the GHG emissions and environmental impact and its mitigation from land use, low carbon energy and transport infrastructure and also on greenhouse gas removal using afforestation and bioenergy carbon capture and storage. Decomissioning and reuse of offshore energy assets and the impact on the environment.
Current Research
UKERC - 4 – Theme 3.
NERC-ADVENT – Impact of low carbon electricity generation on ecosystem services and natural Capital.
NERC-ADVANCES – Landscapes decisions. - Impact of temporal and spatial scale on land use simulations
NERC-FAB-GGR – GHG removal using BECCS and afforestation.
EU-GRACE - Developing Miscanthus and Hemp as a Bioenergy Feedstock for the bio-economy
EU-EcoWinery - Building a tool to calculate GHG emissions from Wine production
NDC - Estimating GHG emissions from Decomissioning
NDC - Decomissioning bundles
DDC - Curtin - The environmental impact of decomissioning subsea structures with residual NORM and Hg on the marine environment.
EU-VERIFY - Building a methodology to quantify European GHG emissions
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Collaborations
Jatropha growth and soil carbon modelling with Prof. Meenu Saraf University of Gujarat, India.
Miscanthus biomass growth and use Aberystwyth - Hoenheim, Zagreb - Piacenza - INTA - Braunscheig
GGR with Exeter, UEA, CRU, Leeds and Aston.
Low carbon infrastructure impact on the environment - UEA - UCL - Imperial - Leeds - Lancaster - CEH - Southampton - Davis - Sydney.
Decomissioning - Curtin
GHG emissions quantification - The EU GHG group.
Funding and Grants
UKERC - 4 – Theme 3.
NERC-ADVENT – Impact of low carbon electricity generation on ecosystem services and natural Capital.
NERC-ADVANCES – Landscapes decisions. - Impact of temporal and spatial scale on land use simulations
NERC-FAB-GGR – GHG removal using BECCS and afforestation.
EU-GRACE - Developing Miscanthus and Hemp as a Bioenergy Feedstock for the bio-economy
EU-EcoWinery - Building a tool to calculate GHG emissions from Wine production
NDC - Estimating GHG emissions from Decomissioning
NDC - Decomissioning bundles
DDC - Curtin - The environmental impact of decomissioning subsea structures with residual NORM and Hg on the marine environment.
EU-VERIFY - Building a methodology to quantify European GHG emissions
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Course co-ordinator Marine EIA masters course
Lecture on GHG emissions and mitigation
Environmental modelling
- Publications
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Harvest time optimisation for combustion quality of different miscanthus genotypes across Europe
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, 727Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExtending Miscanthus cultivation with novel germplasm at six contrasting sites
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, 563Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHigh-resolution spatial modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change to energy crops in the United Kingdom
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 627–644Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12360
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6063/1/gcbb12360.pdf
Environmental costs and benefits of growing Miscanthus for bioenergy in the UK
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 489-507Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDevelopment of Miscanthus as a Bioenergy Crop
Biofuels and Bioenergy. Love, J., Bryant, J. A. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 119-131, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118350553.ch7
Environmental sustainability aspects of second generation ethanol production from sugarcane
Advances of Basic Science for Second Generation Bioethanol from Sugarcane. Buckeridge, M. S., De Souza, A. P. (eds.). Springer International Publishing AG, pp. 177-195, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49826-3_10
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Progress in upscaling Miscanthus biomass production for the European bio-economy with seed-based hybrids
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 6-17Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe impact of soil salinity on the yield, composition and physiology of the bioenergy grass Miscanthus × giganteus
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 92–104Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12351
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6058/1/Stavridou_et_al_2016_GCB_Bioenergy.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Progress on optimizing miscanthus biomass production for the European bioeconomy: Results of the EU FP7 project OPTIMISC
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 7, pp. 1-23Contributions to Journals: ArticlesELUM: a spatial modelling tool to predict soil greenhouse gas changes from land conversion to bioenergy in the UK
Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 84, pp. 458-466Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEmissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and implications for future management options
Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 19, pp. 7080–7102Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2469
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7577/1/Abdalla_et_al_2016_Ecology_and_Evolution.pdf
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Global change synergies and trade-offs between renewable energy and biodiversity
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 941-951Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSimulation of biomass yield of regular and chilling tolerant Miscanthus cultivars and reed canary grass in different climates of Europe
Industrial Crops and Products, vol. 86, pp. 329-333Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2016.04.007
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The potential for land sparing to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
Nature Climate Change, vol. 6, pp. 488-492Contributions to Journals: LettersPotential impacts on ecosystem services of land use transitions to second-generation bioenergy crops in GB
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 317-333Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEmissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and future implications
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsMathematical Modeling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture for Different End Users
Synthesis and modelling of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage in agricultural and forest systems to guide mitigation and adaptation. Del Grosso, S., Parton, W., Ahuja, L. (eds.). American Society of Agronomy, pp. 197-227, 31 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSoil CO2–C flux and carbon storage in the dry tropics: Impact of land-use change involving bioenergy crop plantation
Biomass & Bioenergy, vol. 83, pp. 123-130Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.09.009
History of the development of Miscanthus as a bioenergy crop: From small beginnings to potential realisation
Biology and Environment, vol. 115B, no. 1, pp. 45-57Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3318/BIOE.2015.05
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Simulation of CO2 and Attribution Analysis at Six European Peatland Sites Using the ECOSSE Model
Water, Air and Soil Pollution, vol. 225, 2182Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-014-2182-8
Sustainable Energy Crop Production
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 9-10, pp. 20-25Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2014.07.007
Assessing the impact of within crop heterogeneity (“patchiness”) in young Miscanthus x giganteus fields on economic feasibility and soil carbon sequestration
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 566-576Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12084
Life-cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from unconventional gas in Scotland
ClimateXChange. 87 pages.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [ONLINE] http://www.climatexchange.org.uk/files/7814/0853/5471/Life-cycle_Assessment_of_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_from_Unconventional_Gas_in_Scotland_Full_Report.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11194/1/Life_cycle_Assessment_of_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_from_Unconventional_Gas_in_Scotland_Full_Report_Updated_8.Dec.14.pdf
Land use change from C3 grassland to C4 Miscanthus: effects on soil carbon content and estimated mitigation benefit after six years
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 360-370Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12054
Assessing the combined use of reduced tillage and cover crops for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from arable ecosystem
Geoderma, vol. 223-225, pp. 9-20Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.01.030