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Dr Jon McCalmont

Dr Jon McCalmont
Dr Jon McCalmont
Dr Jon McCalmont

BSc, PhD

Research Fellow

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Email Address
jon.mccalmont@abdn.ac.uk
School/Department
School of Biological Sciences
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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 Biology 
    2014 - Aberystwyth University 

    Understanding greenhouse gas exchange and carbon dynamics following land-use change from grassland to perennial energy crops

  • BSc Countryside Management 
    2011 - Aberystwyth University 

    BSc (1st Class Hons) in conservation and land management

Research

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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  • 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

  • The Impact of Biomass Feedstock Composition and Pre-treatments on Tar Formation during Biomass Gasification

    Corton, J., Paula, B., Khan, Z., McCalmont, J., Yu, X., Fletcher, G., Croxton, S., Sharp, J., Paul, M., Watson I., I., Donnison, I.
    Advances in Biofeedstocks and Biofuels: Biofeedstocks and Their Processing, I. Singh, L. K., Chaudhary, G. (eds.). Wiley
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • An interyear comparison of CO2 flux and carbon budget at a commercial-scale land-use transition from semi-improved grassland to Miscanthus x giganteus

    McCalmont, J., McNamara, N., Donnison, I., Farrar, K., Clifton-Brown, J.
    GCB Bioenergy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 229-245
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 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

  • Heavy Metal Uptake by Novel Miscanthus Seed-Based Hybrids Cultivated in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil

    Krzyzak, J., Pogrzeba, M., Rusinowski, S., Clifton-Brown, J. C., McCalmont, J., Kiesel, A., Mangold, A., Mos, M.
    Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 121-132
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Simulation of greenhouse gases following land-use change to bioenergy crops using the ECOSSE model: a comparison between site measurements and model predictions

    Dondini, M., Richards, M. I. A., Pogson, M., McCalmont, J., Drewer, J., Marshall, R., Morrison, R., Yamulki, S., Harris, Z. M., Alberti, G., Siebicke, L., Taylor, G., Perks, M., Finch, J., McNamara, N. P., Smith, J. U., Smith, P.
    Global Change Biology. Bioenergy, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 925-940
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Appraising the capability of a land biosphere model as a tool in modelling land surface interactions: results from its validation at selected European ecosystems

    North, M. R., Petropoulos, G. P., McCalmont, J., Ireland, G.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
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