BSc, PhD
Research Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- jon.mccalmont@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
After a career in forestry I studied Conservation and Land Management for a BSc as a mature student at Aberystwyth University. Following this, I completed a PhD in 2014 studying the greenhouse gas impacts of land-use change from grassland agriculture to 2nd generation perennial biomass cropping (Miscanthus). I remained at Aberystwyth as a PDRA for a further 4 years, working across several EU wide collaborative projects based around the commercial roll-out of sustainable energy crops. My research interests primarily focus on the environmental impacts of land-use change and in 2018 I expanded my research experience into South-East Asia, with a PDRF position at Exeter University measuring the carbon impacts of tropical peat forest conversion to oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo. I am currently working within the Environmental Modelling Group at Aberdeen University as part of the Netzero+ project, administered by Exeter University, which considers the potential for expansion of UK woodland to remove atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change.
Qualifications
- PhD Biology2014 - Aberystwyth University
Understanding greenhouse gas exchange and carbon dynamics following land-use change from grassland to perennial energy crops
- BSc Countryside Management2011 - Aberystwyth University
BSc (1st Class Hons) in conservation and land management
- Research
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Research Specialisms
- Atmospheric Physics
- Environmental Biology
- Environmental Sciences
- Land Management
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Publications
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Yield performance of 14 novel inter- and intra-species Miscanthus hybrids across Europe
Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 399-423Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation on tropical peatland in South East Asia: photosynthetic response to soil drainage level for mitigation of soil carbon emissions
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 858, no. Part 1, 159356Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCO2 fluxes from three different temperate grazed pastures using Eddy covariance measurements
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 831, 154819Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDesign, instrumentation, and operation of a standard downdraft, laboratory-scale gasification testbed utilising novel seed-propagated hybrid Miscanthus pellets
Applied Energy, vol. 315, 118864Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStable gap-filling for longer eddy covariance data gaps: A globally validated machine-learning approach for carbon dioxide, water, and energy fluxes
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol. 314, 108777Contributions to Journals: ArticlesShort‐ and long‐term carbon emissions from oil palm plantations converted from logged tropical peat swamp forest
Global Change Biology, vol. 27, pp. 2361-2376Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA new carbohydrate retaining variety of Miscanthus increases biogas methane yields compared to M x giganteus and narrows the yield advantage of maize
Food and Energy Security, vol. 9, no. 3, 224Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn assessment of oil palm plantation aboveground biomass stocks on tropical peat using destructive and non-destructive methods
Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2230Contributions to Journals: ArticlesConsequential life cycle assessment of miscanthus livestock bedding, diverting straw to bioelectricity generation
GCB Bioenergy, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 39-53Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDactylis glomerata L. cultivation on mercury contaminated soil and its physiological response to granular sulphur aided phytostabilization
Environmental Pollution, vol. 255, no. Part 2, 113271Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113271
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