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Dr Tim Smyth

Head of Science - Marine Biogeochemistry and Ocean observations



Contact Details

+44 (0)1752 633100 (switchboard)

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Dr Tim Smyth is the Head of Science for Marine Biogeochemistry and Observations at PML. This involves leading a team of around 20 people ranging from PhD students to experienced senior scientists across a range of disciplines from air-sea exchange, nutrient cycling to molecular science within the broad remit of marine biogeochemistry. His brief also includes oversight of the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) as well as the Western Channel Observatory (WCO: both NERC National Capability) which he has been leading for the past decade.

Since joining PML in 1997 as a data analyst and algorithm developer for the then newly launched SeaWiFS ocean colour satellite, his research interests have broadly encompassed theoretical and experimental atmospheric and in-water optics. He has a strong interest in developing innovative technologies for automated marine measurements including the WCO buoys, ship emissions and atmospheric aerosols.

He has around 280 days of sea-going experience including being Chief Scientist on two Atlantic Meridional Transect (2014, 2015) expeditions between the UK and Falkland Islands.

He has over eighty peer-reviewed ISI papers.

Education:

  • BSc. (Hons) Class I: Physics and Meteorology. University of Reading (1991 – 1994)
  • PhD: “Precipitation measurements in convective storms using multiparameter radar”. University of Reading (1997)

Projects

ALICE

Artificial Light in Coastal Ecosystems (ALICE)

Contact: Dr Tim Smyth

Artificial light at night (ALAN) can now be detected above 22% of the world’s coasts, and will dramatically increase as coastal human...

ACRUISE

Atmospheric Composition and Radiative forcing changes due to UN International Ship Emissions regulations (ACRUISE)

Contact: Dr Ming-Xi Yang

Ship emissions are significant sources of polluting aerosols in coastal regions, causing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths per year...

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Other key projects

NERC National Capability:
  • Western Channel Observatory
  • Atlantic Meridional Transect
  • ORCHESTRA
 
NERC:
  • An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) (NE/P013910/1)
  • Atlantic BiogeoChemical fluxes (ABC) (NE/M005038/1) 
 
Horizons 2020:
  • AtlantOS
 
ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative:
  • Aerosol and SST option

Recent publications

  • Queiros, AM; Stephens, N; Widdicombe, S; Tait, K; McCoy, SJ; Ingels, J; Ruhl, S; Airs, RL; Beesley, A; Carnovale, G; Cazenave, P; Dashfield, SL; Hua, E; Jones, M; Lindeque, PK; McNeill, CL; Nunes, J; Parry, HE; Pascoe, CK; Widdicombe, CE; Smyth, TJ; Atkinson, A; Krause‐Jensen, D; Somerfield, PJ. 2019 Connected macroalgal‐sediment systems: blue carbon and food webs in the deep coastal ocean. Ecological Monographs. e01366. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1366
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  • Yang, M; Bell, TG; Brown, IJ; Fishwick, J; Kitidis, V; Nightingale, PD; Rees, AP; Smyth, TJ. 2019 Insights from year-long measurements of air–water CH4 and CO2 exchange in a coastal environment. Biogeosciences, 16 (5). 961-978. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-961-2019
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  • Skakala, J; Smyth, TJ; Torres, R; Buckingham, CE; Brearley, A; Hyder, P; Coward, AC. 2019 SST dynamics at different scales: evaluating the oceanographic model resolution skill to represent SST processes in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014791
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  • Atkinson, A; Polimene, L; Fileman, ES; Widdicombe, CE; McEvoy, AJ; Smyth, TJ; Djeghri, N; Sailley, SF; Cornwell, LE. 2018 Comment. What drives plankton seasonality in a stratifying shelf sea? Some competing and complementary theories. Limnology and Oceanography, 63 (6). 2877-2884. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11036
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  • Loveday, BR; Smyth, TJ. 2018 A 40-year global data set of visible-channel remote-sensing reflectances and coccolithophore bloom occurrence derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer catalogue. Earth System Science Data, 10 (4). 2043-2054. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-2043-2018
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  • Brewin, RJW; Smale, DA; Moore, PJ; Dall’Olmo, G; Miller, PI; Taylor, BH; Smyth, TJ; Fishwick, J; Yang, M. 2018 Evaluating Operational AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature Data at the Coastline Using Benthic Temperature Loggers. Remote Sensing, 10 (6), 925. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060925
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Other activities

  • Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (since 1998)
  • NERC Peer Review College – panel member and reviewer
  • NERC Expert Scientific Moorings Assessment Group
  • National Centre for Atmospheric Science: Atmospheric Measurement Facility Advisory Group
  • UK Integrated Monitoring and Observing Network – Executive
  • National Centre for Ocean Forecasting (now National Partnership for Ocean Prediction) – executive (until 2015)
  • Chair of PML IT Strategy group