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Profile summary
Professor of Chemistry
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Teaching interests
I am a strong advocate of using a context-based approach in my teaching and I have received several awards from funding bodies to develop this further.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 14 Life Below Water
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
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Analytical inconsistencies in the measurement and reporting of IP25, IPSO25 and related biomarkers for paleo sea ice reconstruction
Belt, S. T. & Smik, L., Jun 2025, In: Organic Geochemistry. 204, 104989.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A potential new sea surface temperature proxy based on isomeric highly branched isoprenoid lipid biomarkers: EZ25
Belt, S. T., Smik, L., Husum, K. & Knies, J., 18 Aug 2025, In: Organic Geochemistry. 208, 105056.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Arctic fjord ecosystem adaptation to cryosphere meltdown over the past 14,000 years
Knies, J., Ahn, Y., Ebner, B., Smik, L., Jang, K., Nam, S. I., Belt, S. T. & Schubert, C. J., Dec 2025, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 6, 1, 298.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Past intrusion of Circumpolar Deep Water in the Ross Sea: Impacts on the ancient Ross Ice Shelf
Capotondi, L., Mollenhauer, G., Tesi, T., Muschitiello, F., Nogarotto, A., Hefter, J., Pambianco, C., Belt, S., Sabino, M., Battaglia, F., Giglio, F., Roberto, A. D., Pochini, E., Geniram, A., Colizza, E., Torricella, F. & Giorgetti, G., 27 Jun 2025, In: Science advances. 11, 26, eadt7075.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Productivity History of the Central Okhotsk Sea and Northeast Russia During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Lo, L., Chen, W. Z., Lattaud, J., Tsai, Y. H., Belt, S. T., Smik, L. & Wan, Y. T. K., Dec 2025, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 40, 12, e2024PA005092.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Fatty acid composition of 32 cold-water algal strains cultured under different conditions to support the interpretation of in situ algal FA data from the MOSAiC expedition 2019/2020
Schmidt, K. (Creator), Graeve, M. (Creator), Hoppe, C. (Creator), Rokitta, S. (Creator), Welteke, N. (Creator), Menendez, C. R. (Creator), Probert, I. (Creator), Brenneis, T. (Creator), Belt, S. T. (Creator), Atkinson, A. (Creator), Schmidt, K. (Contributor), Schmidt, K. (Contributor), Graeve, M. (Contributor), Hoppe, C. (Contributor), Rokitta, S. (Contributor), Welteke, N. (Contributor), Menendez, C. (Contributor), Probert, I. (Contributor), Brenneis, T. (Contributor), Belt, S. T. (Contributor), Atkinson, A. (Contributor), Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor) & Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre, 14 Dec 2023
DOI: 10.5285/bb4b1e74-d5af-4a73-9174-62a01807c641, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01808
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Fatty acid composition of particulate organic matter (POM) collected from surface waters and bottom sea-ice of the Central Arctic Ocean during the MOSAiC expedition in 2019/2020
Schmidt, K. (Creator), Graeve, M. (Creator), Welteke, N. (Creator), Hoppe, C. J. M. (Creator), Fong, A. A. (Creator), Hildebrandt, N. (Creator), Castellani, G. (Creator), Vortkamp, M. (Creator), Belt, S. T. (Creator), Atkinson, A. (Creator), Schmidt, K. (Contributor), Schmidt, K. (Contributor), Graeve, M. (Contributor), Welteke, N. (Contributor), Hoppe, C. J. M. (Contributor), Fong, A. A. (Contributor), Hildebrandt, N. (Contributor), Castellani, G. (Contributor), Vortkamp, M. (Contributor), Belt, S. T. (Contributor), Atkinson, A. (Contributor), Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor) & Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre, 13 Jul 2023
DOI: 10.5285/d7708d08-4bd4-439a-99e2-307a175977ea, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01751
Dataset
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The Arctic sea ice proxy, IP25, in particulate organic matter (POM) from surface waters and bottom sea-ice of the Central Arctic Ocean during the MOSAiC expedition in 2019/2020
Schmidt, K. (Creator), Belt, S. T. (Creator), Graeve, M. (Creator), Hildebrandt, N. (Creator), Fong, A. A. (Creator), Castellani, G. (Creator), Hoppe, C. J. M. (Creator), Atkinson, A. (Creator), Vortkamp, M. (Creator), Schmidt, K. (Contributor), Schmidt, K. (Contributor), Belt, S. T. (Contributor), Graeve, M. (Contributor), Hildebrandt, N. (Contributor), Fong, A. A. (Contributor), Castellani, G. (Contributor), Hoppe, C. J. M. (Contributor), Atkinson, A. (Contributor), Vortkamp, M. (Contributor), Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor) & Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre, 17 Jan 2024
DOI: 10.5285/8bd08e69-7839-4096-85fd-9adfcaa85e5a, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01783
Dataset
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Data from the Arctic biomarker IP25 and associated open water and marginal ice biomarkers brassicasterol and HBI III from the eastern Bering Sea during the Pleistocene
Detlef, H. (Creator), Detlef, H. (Contributor), Belt, S. T. (Contributor), Cabedo-Sanz, P. (Contributor), Hall, I. R. (Contributor), Husum, K. (Contributor), Kender, S. (Contributor), Lear, C. H. (Contributor), Smik, L. (Contributor), Sosdian, S. M. (Contributor), Centre, P. D. (Contributor), Centre, P. D. (Contributor) & Centre, P. D. (Contributor), Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK, 2018
DOI: 10.5285/9caf74c4-7054-4539-81b8-d4f942afc358, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01048
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Excess 210Pb, 137C, total organic carbon content, HBI biomarkers (IPSO25, HBI III) and biogenic silica of marine deposits from sediment core 2018_R2_2F from Sheldon Cove, Antarctic Peninsula
Pienkowski, A. J. (Creator), Romel, P. (Creator), Szczuciński, W. (Creator), Belt, S. T. (Creator) & Smik, L. (Creator), ZENODO, 20 May 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11221041, https://zenodo.org/records/11221041
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