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Joseph M. Smoak is affiliated with the University of South Florida St. Petersburg in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions across these fields.

Their work covers various subfields including ecology, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, global and planetary change, and soil science. The main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Coastal and marine dynamics
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Smoak has published frequently in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Geoderma
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Oceanologia

Recent papers by Smoak include:

  • Increasing Rates of Carbon Burial in Southwest Florida Coastal Wetlands (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)
  • Spatiotemporal pattern of degradation in arid mangrove forests of the Northern Persian Gulf (2020, Oceanologia)
  • Hypersaline tidal flats as important "blue carbon" systems: a case study from three ecosystems (2021, Biogeosciences)
  • Carbon and nutrient accumulation in mangrove sediments affected by multiple environmental changes (2020, Journal of Soils and Sediments)
  • Florida's urban stormwater ponds are net sources of carbon to the atmosphere despite increased carbon burial over time (2022, Communications Earth & Environment)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Smoak comprise:

  • Joshua L. Breithaupt
  • Ryan P. Moyer
  • Kara R. Radabaugh
  • B. E. Rosenheim
  • Lisa G. Chambers

Best Publications

  • Organic carbon burial rates in mangrove sediments: strengthening the global budget

    Joshua L. Breithaupt;Joseph M. Smoak;Thomas J. Smith;Christian J. Sanders

  • Organic carbon burial in a mangrove forest, margin and intertidal mud flat.

    Christian J. Sanders;Joseph M. Smoak;A. Sathy Naidu;Luciana M. Sanders

  • Sediment accretion and organic carbon burial relative to sea-level rise and storm events in two mangrove forests in Everglades National Park

    Joseph M. Smoak;Joshua L. Breithaupt;Thomas J. Smith;Christian J. Sanders

  • Role of carbonate burial in Blue Carbon budgets

    Vincent Saderne;Nathan R. Geraldi;Peter I. Macreadie;D. T. Maher

  • Elevated rates of organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus accumulation in a highly impacted mangrove wetland

    Christian J. Sanders;Bradley D. Eyre;Isaac R. Santos;Wilson Machado

  • Temporal variability of carbon and nutrient burial, sediment accretion, and mass accumulation over the past century in a carbonate platform mangrove forest of the Florida Everglades

    Joshua L. Breithaupt;Joseph M. Smoak;Thomas J. Smith;Christian J. Sanders

  • Accuracy and Precision of Tidal Wetland Soil Carbon Mapping in the Conterminous United States.

    James R. Holmquist;Lisamarie Windham-Myers;Norman Bliss;Stephen Crooks

  • Environmental controls on soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks in the high‐altitude arid western Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau permafrost region.

    Xiaodong Wu;Lin Zhao;Hongbing Fang;Yuguo Zhao

  • Sediment mixing and accumulation in a mangrove ecosystem: evidence from 210Pb, 234Th and 7Be

    Joseph M. Smoak;Sambasiva R. Patchineelam

  • A conceptual model of the controlling factors of soil organic carbon and nitrogen densities in a permafrost‐affected region on the eastern Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

    Xiaodong Wu;Hongbing Fang;Yonghua Zhao;Joseph M. Smoak

  • Effects of fish introduction and eutrophication on the cladoceran community in Lake Fuxian, a deep oligotrophic lake in southwest China

    Guimin Liu;Zhengwen Liu;Zhengwen Liu;Yanling Li;Feizhou Chen

  • Land use change assessment in coastal mangrove forests of Iran utilizing satellite imagery and CA–Markov algorithms to monitor and predict future change

    Hana Etemadi;Joseph M. Smoak;Jalal Karami

  • Radionuclide tracers of sediment-water interactions on the Amazon shelf

    Willard S. Moore;David J. DeMaster;Joseph M. Smoak;Joseph M. Smoak;Brent A. McKee

  • The behavior of U- and Th-series nuclides in the estuarine environment

    Peter W. Swarzenski;Donald Porcelli;Per S. Andersson;Joseph M. Smoak

  • Avoiding timescale bias in assessments of coastal wetland vertical change

    Joshua L. Breithaupt;Joseph M. Smoak;Robert H. Byrne;Matthew N. Waters

  • Examining 239+240Pu, 210Pb and historical events to determine carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus burial in mangrove sediments of Moreton Bay, Australia

    Christian J. Sanders;Isaac R. Santos;Damien T. Maher;Joshua L. Breithaupt

  • 234Th and 21Pb evidence for rapid ingestion of settling particles by mobile epibenthic megafauna in the abyssal NE Pacific

    Lynn M. Lauerman;Joseph M. Smoak;Timothy J. Shaw;Willard S. Moore

  • Organic matter content and particle size modifications in mangrove sediments as responses to sea level rise

    Christian J. Sanders;Joseph M. Smoak;Matthew N. Waters;Luciana M. Sanders

  • The behavior of particle-reactive tracers in a high turbidity environment: 234Th and 210Pb on the Amazon continental shelf

    Joseph M. Smoak;David J. DeMaster;Steven A. Kuehl;Robert H. Pope

  • Increasing Rates of Carbon Burial in Southwest Florida Coastal Wetlands

    Joshua L. Breithaupt;Joseph M. Smoak;Thomas S. Bianchi;Derrick R. Vaughn;Derrick R. Vaughn

  • Changes in organic carbon accumulation driven by mangrove expansion and deforestation in a New Zealand estuary

    Alexander Pérez;Wilson Machado;Dimitri Gutierrez;Debra J Stokes

  • Accuracy and Precision of Tidal Wetland Soil Carbon Mapping in the Conterminous United States: Public Soil Carbon Data Release

    James R. Holmquist;Lisamarie Windham-Myers;Norman Bliss;Stephen Crooks

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian J. Sanders
Christian J. Sanders Southern Cross University
Tiffany G. Troxler
Tiffany G. Troxler Florida International University
Isaac R. Santos
Isaac R. Santos University of Gothenburg
Zhengwen Liu
Zhengwen Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaodong Wu
Xiaodong Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Thomas S. Bianchi
Thomas S. Bianchi University of New Hampshire
Willard S. Moore
Willard S. Moore University of South Carolina
Peter W. Swarzenski
Peter W. Swarzenski International Atomic Energy Agency
Mark Brenner
Mark Brenner University of Florida
Donald E. Weller
Donald E. Weller Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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