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About
Dr. Smoak's research focuses on wetland carbon sequestration and the role wetlands play in climate change. He examines freshwater wetlands and mangrove systems (coastal wetlands) to assess the wetlands current contribution to the global carbon budget, and how the contribution may change as the climate warms. These investigations are being conducted at several sites in Brazil and in the Florida Everglades. Specific research interests and projects are: Uranium and thorium series radionuclides as tracers of geological processes; organic carbon burial in wetlands; mangrove ecosystem response to sea-level change.
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Education/Academic qualification
Chemical Oceanography, M.S., North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Geology, Ph.D., University of South Carolina - Columbia
Marine Science, B.S., University of South Carolina - Columbia
Disciplines
- Earth Sciences
- Biogeochemistry
- Geochemistry
- Geology
- Environmental Sciences
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Carbon and hydrogen isotopes of taraxerol in mangrove leaves and sediment cores: Implications for paleo-reconstructions
He, D., Ladd, S. N., Park, J., Sachs, J. P., Simoneit, B. R. T., Smoak, J. M. & Jaffe, R., Jan 1 2022, In: Default journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Florida’s urban stormwater ponds are net sources of carbon to the atmosphere despite increased carbon burial over time
Goeckner, A. H., Lusk, M. G., Reisinger, A. J., Hosen, J. D. & Smoak, J. M., Jan 1 2022, In: Default journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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REE Anomalies Changes in Bottom Sediments Applied in the Western Equatorial Atlantic Since the Last Interglacial
Sousa, T. A., Venancio, I. M., Marques, E. D., Figueiredo, T. S., Nascimento, R. A., Smoak, J. M., Albuquerque, A. L. S., Valeriano, C. M. & Silva-Filho, E. V., Jan 1 2022, In: Default journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changes in sedimentary provenance and climate off the coast of Northeast Brazil since the Last Interglacial
de Sousa, T. A., Venancio, I. M., Valeriano, C. D. M., Heilbron, M., Weitzel Dias Carneiro, M. T., Mane, M. A., Horta de Almeida, J. C., Smoak, J. M., Albuquerque, A. L. S. & Silva-Filho, E. V., May 1 2021, In: Default journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Coastal riverine wetland biogeochemistry follows soil organic matter distribution along a marsh-to-mangrove gradient (Florida, USA)
Harttung, S. A., Radabaugh, K. R., Moyer, R. P., Smoak, J. M. & Chambers, L. G., Nov 25 2021, In: Default journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review