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Professor Astley Hastings

Professor Astley Hastings
Professor Astley Hastings
Professor Astley Hastings

BSc, MSc, PhD, MIMechE, CEng.

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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

Line Manager.

Co-Champion of CCUS and Nature Based Solutions Theme. 

External Memberships

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

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

Teaching Responsibilities

Course co-ordinator Marine EIA masters course

Lecture on GHG emissions and mitigation

Environmental modelling

Publications

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  • Novel miscanthus germplasm-based value chains: A Life Cycle Assessment

    Wagner, M., Kiesel, A., Hastings, A., Iqbal, Y., Lewandowski, I.
    Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, pp. 1-18
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Equilibrium and Model Initialisation Methods: an Application to the Rothamsted Carbon (RothC) Model

    Nemo, , Klumpp, K., Coleman, K., Dondini, M., Goulding, K., Hastings, A., Jones, M. B., Leifeld, J., Osborne, B., Saunders, M., Scott, T., Teh, Y. A., Smith, P.
    Environmental Modeling & Assessment, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 215-229
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Environmental influences on the growing season duration and ripening of diverse Miscanthus germplasm grown in six countries

    Nunn, C., Hastings, A. F. S. J., Kalinina, O., Özgüven, M., Schüle, H., Tarakanov, I. G., Van Der Weijde, T., Anisimov, A. A., Iqbal, Y., Kiesel, A., Khokhlov, N. F., McCalmont, J. P., Meyer, H., Mos, M., Trindade, L. M., Lewandowski, I., Clifton-Brown, J. C., Mastrorilli, M. (ed.)
    Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, pp. 1-14
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Harvest time optimisation for combustion quality of different miscanthus genotypes across Europe

    Iqbal, Y., Kiesel, A., Wagner, M., Nunn, C., Kalinina, O., Hastings, A. F. S. J., Clifton-Brown, J. C., Lewandowski, I.
    Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, 727
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Extending Miscanthus cultivation with novel germplasm at six contrasting sites

    Kalinina, O., Nunn, C., Sanderson, R., Hastings, A., Van Der Weijde, T., Özgüven, M., Tarakanov, I., Schüle, H., Trindade, L., Dolstra, O., Schwarz, K., Iqbal, Y., Kiesel, A., Mos, M., Lewandowski, I., Clifton-Brown, J.
    Frontiers in plant science, vol. 8, 563
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • High-resolution spatial modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change to energy crops in the United Kingdom

    Richards, M., Pogson, M., Dondini, M., Jones, E. O., Hastings, A., Henner, D. N., Tallis, M. J., Casella, E., Matthews, R. W., Henshall, P. A., Milner, S., Taylor, G., McNamara, N. P., Smith, J. U., Smith, P.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 627–644
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Environmental costs and benefits of growing Miscanthus for bioenergy in the UK

    McCalmont, J., Hastings, A., McNamara, N. P., Richter, G. M., Robson, P., Donnison, I. S., Clifton-Brown, J.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 489-507
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Development of Miscanthus as a Bioenergy Crop

    Clifton-Brown, J., McCalmont, J., Hastings, A.
    Biofuels and Bioenergy. Love, J., Bryant, J. A. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 119-131, 13 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Environmental sustainability aspects of second generation ethanol production from sugarcane

    Galdos, M. V., Cantarella, H., Hastings, A., Hillier, J., Smith, P.
    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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Progress in upscaling Miscanthus biomass production for the European bio-economy with seed-based hybrids 

    Clifton-Brown, J., Hastings, A. F. S. J., Mos, M., McCalmont, J. P., Ashman, C., Awty-Carroll, D., Cerazy, J., Chiang, Y., Cosentino, S., Cracroft-Eley, W., Scurlock, J., Donnison, I. S., Glover, C., Gołąb, I., Greef, J. M., Gwyn, J., Harding, G., Hayes, C., Helios, W., Hsu, T., Huang, L. S., Jeżowski, S., Kim, D., Kiesel, A., Kotecki, A., Krzyzak, J., Lewandowski, I., Lim, S. H., Liu, J., Loosely, M., Meyer, H., Murphy-Bokern, D., Nelson, W., Pogrzeba, M., Robinson, G., Robson, P., Rogers, C., Scalici, G., Schuele, H., Shafiei, R., Shevchuk, O., Schwarz, K., Squance, M., Swaller, T., Thornton, J., Truckses, T., Botnari, V., Vizir, I., Wagner, M., Warren, R., Webster, R., Yamada, T., Youell, S., Xi, Q., Zong, J., Flavell, R.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 6-17
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The impact of soil salinity on the yield, composition and physiology of the bioenergy grass Miscanthus × giganteus

    Stavridou, E., Hastings, A., Webster, R. J., Robson, P. R. H.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 92–104
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Progress on optimizing miscanthus biomass production for the European bioeconomy: Results of the EU FP7 project OPTIMISC

    Lewandowski, I., Clifton-Brown, J., Trindade, L. M., Van Der Linden, G., Schwarz, K., Anisimov, A., Chen, C. L., Dolstra, O., Donnison, I. S., Farrar, K., Fonteyne, S., Harding, G., Hastings, A., Huxley, L. M., Iqbal, Y., Khokhlov, N., Kiesel, A., Lootens, P., Meyer, H., Mos, M., Muylle, H., Nunn, C., Özgüven, M., Roldán-Ruiz, I., Schüle, H., Tarakanov, I., Van Der Weijde, T., Wagner, M., Xi, Q., Kalinina, O.
    Frontiers in plant science, vol. 7, pp. 1-23
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • ELUM: a spatial modelling tool to predict soil greenhouse gas changes from land conversion to bioenergy in the UK

    Pogson, M., Richards, M., Dondini, M., Jones, E. O., Hastings, A., Smith, P.
    Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 84, pp. 458-466
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Emissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and implications for future management options

    Abdalla, M., Hastings, A., Truu, J., Espenberg, M., Mander, ?., Smith, P.
    Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 19, pp. 7080–7102
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Global change synergies and trade-offs between renewable energy and biodiversity

    Santangeli, A., Toivonen, T., Pouzols, F. M., Pogson, M., Hastings, A., Smith, P., Ilanen, A. M.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 941-951
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Simulation of biomass yield of regular and chilling tolerant Miscanthus cultivars and reed canary grass in different climates of Europe

    Kandel, T. P., Hastings, A., Jørgensen, U., Olesen, J. E.
    Industrial Crops and Products, vol. 86, pp. 329-333
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The potential for land sparing to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

    Lamb, A., Green, R., Bateman, I., Broadmeadow, M., Bruce, T., Burney, J., Carey, P., Chadwick, D., Crane, E., Field, R., Goulding, K., Griffiths, H., Hastings, A., Kasoar, T., Kindred, D., Phalan, B., Pickett, J., Smith, P., Wall, E., zu Ermgassen, E. K. H. J., Balmford, A.
    Nature Climate Change, vol. 6, pp. 488-492
    Contributions to Journals: Letters

  • Potential impacts on ecosystem services of land use transitions to second-generation bioenergy crops in GB

    Milner, S., Holland, R. A., Lovett, A., Sunnenberg, G., Hastings, A., Smith, P., Wang, S., Taylor, G.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 317-333
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Emissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and future implications

    Abdalla, M., Hastings, A. F. S. J., Mander, U., Smith, P.
    European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Mathematical Modeling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture for Different End Users

    Hillier, J., Abdalla, M., Bellarby, J., Albanito, F., Datta, A., Dondini, M., Fitton, N., Hallett, P., Hastings, A., Jones, E., Kuhnert, M., Nayak, D., Pogson, M., Richards, M., Smith, J., Vetter, S., Yeluripati, J., Smith, P.
    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 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Soil CO2–C flux and carbon storage in the dry tropics: Impact of land-use change involving bioenergy crop plantation

    Kumar Singh, M., Hastings, A. F. S. J., Smith, P., Ghoshal, N.
    Biomass & Bioenergy, vol. 83, pp. 123-130
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • History of the development of Miscanthus as a bioenergy crop: From small beginnings to potential realisation

    Clifton-Brown, J., Schwarz, K. U., Hastings, A.
    Biology and Environment, vol. 115B, no. 1, pp. 45-57
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Simulation of CO2 and Attribution Analysis at Six European Peatland Sites Using the ECOSSE Model

    Abdalla, M., Hastings, A. F. S. J., Bell, M. J., Smith, J. U., Richards, M., Nilsson, M. B., Peichl, M., Lofvenius, M. O., Lund, M., Helfter, C., Nemitz, E., Sutton, M. A., Aurela, M., Lohila, A., Laurila, T., Dolman, A. J., Belelli-Marchesini, L., Pogson, M., Jones, E., Drewer, J., Drosler, M., Smith, P.
    Water, Air and Soil Pollution, vol. 225, 2182
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Sustainable Energy Crop Production

    Del Grosso, S., Smith, P., Galdos, M., Hastings, A., Parton, W.
    Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 9-10, pp. 20-25
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Assessing the impact of within crop heterogeneity (“patchiness”) in young Miscanthus x giganteus fields on economic feasibility and soil carbon sequestration

    Zimmermann, J., Styles, D., Hastings, A., Dauber, J., Jones, M. B.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 566-576
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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