Emily Nicholson Curriculum vitae, May 2012

Emily Nicholson

Centenary Fellow Current address: 40 Melrose Street, School of Botany North Melbourne, VIC 3051, The University of Melbourne tel: +61 (0)404 161771 [email protected] Nationalities: Australian and Irish http://emilynicholson.wordpress.com/

Tertiary Education

2002-2006 PhD, The Ecology Centre, the , Planning for persistence: using the risk of extinction in multispecies approaches to conservation planning, with Professor Hugh P. Possingham (principle supervisor), Bob Pressey and Wayne A. Rochester (associate supervisors). Included eight months as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Environmental research in Leipzig, Germany, working with Karin Frank

2001-2002 Honours research project, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne Setting conservation priorities for native grasslands: combining irreplaceability, vulnerability, condition and distinctiveness, supervised by Professor Mark A. Burgman, Dr Robert L. Pressey & Dr Graeme Coulson.

1995-2001 Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne (Majors in French and Zoology), including one semester (1999) of Maîtrise in ecotoxicology at the University of Bordeaux, France.

Positions held May 2012–2014 Centenary Fellow (part-time, total of 24 months FTE), The University of Melbourne, ARC Centre of Excellence in Environmental Decisions, Department of Botany, Theory for assessing the threat status of ecosystems.

Oct 2009–Apr 2012 Marie Curie Fellow (part-time, total of 24 months FTE), Imperial College Conservation Science group, Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Optimal monitoring of socio-economic and ecological systems for robust natural resource management, with E.J. Milner-Gulland (Imperial College), and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

March-Oct 2011 Maternity leave

Feb-Oct 2009 Maternity leave

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Aug 2008-Feb 2009 Marie Curie Fellow, Imperial College Conservation Science group, Division of Biology, Imperial College London

Oct 2007-July 2008 Research Associate, Imperial College Conservation Science group, Division of Biology, Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus, The role of monitoring in wildlife conservation, with Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland (Imperial College London), Dr Julia Jones (Bangor University), and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

Sept 2006-Sept 2007 Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs (Science, Technology & Environmental Policy Program), Princeton University, Conservation planning in Florida, with Prof. David Wilcove, The Nature Conservancy of Florida, and Florida Natural Areas Inventory

June-August 2006 Research Assistant, the Ecology Centre, University of Queensland,

2001-2006 Environmental Consultant. Projects include: Decision support and risk assessment for urban grassland conservation and storm-water management

Current research interests and collaborations

Broadly, I am interested in decision-making for environmental management and conservation. I use modelling approaches to understand system dynamics and explore management options in conservation and social-ecological systems. My key research interests are social-ecological modelling, conservation planning and making decisions in the face of uncertainty in data and models.

Current projects include: • A framework for integrating human behaviour and socio-economic dynamics into conservation planning (with Andrea Wallace and EJ Milner Gulland, Imperial College) • Uncertainty in social-ecological models (with Maja Schlueter, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin, and Nils Bunnefeld, Imperial College) • Bioeconomic models of social-ecological systems, focussing on a floodplain model of fisheries and rice agriculture in Madagascar (with EJ Milner-Gulland, Imperial College) • Red List criteria for ecosystems (with IUCN CEM working group, Jon Paul Rodriguez, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela, and David Keith, NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change) • The role of global indicators in monitoring trends in biodiversity (with Ben Collen, Institute of Zoology London, and Julia Jones, Bangor University) • Focal species approach to conservation planning (with David Lindenmayer, Australian National University, Karin Frank UFZ-Hemholz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig Germany, and Hugh Possingham, University of Queensland)

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Peer reviewed publications 1. Schlüter M., McAllister R.R.J., Arlinghaus R., Bunnefeld N., Eisenack K., Hölker F., Milner-Gulland E.J., Müller B., Nicholson E., Quaas M. & Stöven M. (2012). New horizons for managing the environment: A review of coupled social-ecological systems modeling. Natural Resource Modeling, 25, 219-272.

2. Gibbons J.M., Nicholson E., Milner-Gulland E.J. & Jones J.P.G. (2011). Should payments for biodiversity conservation be based on action or results? Journal of Applied Ecology, 48, 1218-1226.

3. De Ornellas P., Milner-Gulland E.J. & Nicholson E. (2011). The impact of data realities on conservation planning. Biological Conservation, 144, 1980–1988.

4. Jones J.P.G., Collen B., Atkinson G., Baxter P., Bubb P., Illian J., Katzner T., Keane A., Loh J., Macdonald-Madden E., Nicholson E., Pereira H., Possingham H.P., Pullin A., Rodrigues A.S.L., Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez V., Sommerville M. & Milner-Gulland E.J. (2010). The why, what and how of global biodiversity indicators beyond the 2010 Target. , 25, 450–457.

5. Rodríguez J.P., Rodríguez-Clark K.M., Baillie J.E.M., Ash N., Benson J., Boucher T., Brown C., Burgess N., Collen B., Jennings M., Keith D.A., Nicholson E., Revenga C., Reyers B., Rouget M., Smith T., Spalding M., Taber A., Walpole M., Zager I. & Zamin T. (2011). Establishing IUCN Red List Criteria for threatened ecosystems. Conservation Biology, 25, 21–29.

6. Guillera-Arroita, G., Lahoz-Monfort, J. J., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Young, R. P. & Nicholson, E. (2010) Monitoring and conservation of the critically endangered Alaotran gentle lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis. Madagascar Conservation and Development, 5, 29-35.

7. Guillera-Arroita, G., Lahoz-Monfort, J.J., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Young, R.P. & Nicholson, E. (2010) Evaluating occupancy for monitoring the Critically Endangered Alaotran gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis). Endangered Species Research, 11:157-166.

8. Lahoz-Monfort J.J., Guillera-Arroita G., Milner-Gulland E.J., Young R.P. & Nicholson E. (2010). Satellite imagery as a single source of predictor variables for habitat suitability modelling: how Landsat can inform the conservation of a critically endangered lemur. Journal of Applied Ecology, 47, 1094–1102.

9. Nicholson E., Mace G.M., Armsworth P.R., Atkinson G., Buckle S., Clements T., Ewers R.M., Fa J.E., Gardner T.A., Gibbons J., Grenyer R., Metcalfe R., Mourato S., Muûls M., Osborn D., Reuman D.C., Watson C. & Milner-Gulland E.J. (2009) A research agenda for ecosystem services in a changing world. Journal of Applied Ecology, 46:1139-1144

10. Nicholson E., Keith D.A. & Wilcove D.S. (2009) Assessing the threat status of ecological communities. Conservation Biology, 23, 259-274

11. Nicholson E. & Ovaskainen O. (2009) Conservation prioritization using metapopulation models. In: Spatial conservation prioritisation: quantitative methods and computational tools (eds. Moilanen A, Possingham HP & Wilson KA), pp. 110-121. Oxford University Press, Oxford

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12. Beissinger S., Nicholson E. & Possingham H.P. (2008) Application of population viability analysis to landscape conservation planning. In: Models For Planning Wildlife Conservation In Large Landscapes (eds. Millspaugh JJ & Thompson FR). Elsevier Science

13. Nicholson E. & Possingham H.P. (2007) Making conservation decisions under uncertainty for the persistence of multiple species. Ecological Applications, 17, 251-265

14. Possingham, H. P. & E. Nicholson (2007) Principles of landscape design that emerge from a formal problem-solving approach. Pages 520-535 in: Managing and designing landscapes for conservation: moving from perspectives to principles (eds) R. J. Hobbs and D. B. Lindenmayer, Blackwell, Malden, MA

15. Nicholson E. & Possingham H.P. (2006) Objectives for multiple-species conservation planning. Conservation Biology, 20, 871-881

16. Nicholson E., Westphal M.I., Frank K., Rochester W.A., Pressey R.L., Lindenmayer D.B. & Possingham H.P. (2006) A new method for conservation planning for the persistence of multiple species. Ecology Letters, 9, 1049-1060

17. Nicholson, E., J. F. Ryan, D. Hodgkins (2002) Community data – where does the value lie? Assessing confidence limits of community collected water quality data. Water Science & Technology 45, 193-200.

Submitted manuscripts Nicholson, E., Collen, B., Barausse, A., Blanchard, J. L., Costelloe, B. T., Sullivan, K. M. E., Underwood, F. M., Burn, R. W., Fritz, S., Jones, J. P. G., McRae, L., Possingham, H. P. & Milner-Gulland, E. J. (2012) Robust policy decisions with global biodiversity indicators. PLoS One, in review.

Ponce-Reyes R., Nicholson E., Baxter P., Fuller R.A. & Possingham H.P. (2012). Extinction risk in cloud forest fragments under climate change and habitat loss. Diversity & Distributions, in review.

Nicholson E., Lindenmayer D.B., Frank K. & Possingham H.P. (2012). Testing the focal species approach to conservation planning for species persistence. Diversity & Distributions, in review.

Rodríguez J.P., Rodríguez-Clark K.M., Keith D.A., Barrow E.G., Benson J., Nicholson E. & Wit P. (2012). The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems. Sapiens, in review.

Reports Nicholson E., Mace G.M., Armsworth P.R., Atkinson G., Buckle S., Clements T., Ewers R.M., Fa J.E., Gardner T.A., Gibbons J., Grenyer R., Metcalfe R., Mourato S., Muûls M., Osborn D., Reuman D.C., Watson C. & Milner-Gulland E.J. (2008) Quantifying the value of ecosystem services in a changing world, Policy submission for the LWEC Partner Board

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Nicholson, E., Knight, A. & Wilcove, D.S. (2007) Assessing portfolio effectiveness and predicting outcomes in ecoregional conservation planning. The Nature Conservancy, Gainesville

Grants and awards over $2000 2012-2014 Centenary Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Theory for assessing the threat status of ecosystems (total value, approx. $196,000) 2008-2011 ESRC-CASE studentship grant for a PhD student (Andrea Wallace), co-written with EJ Milner-Gulland, Julia Jones (Bangor University) and Richard Young (Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) (total value approx. £75,000) 2008-2012 Marie Curie Fellowship (International Incoming Fellow), Optimal monitoring of socio- economic and ecological systems for robust natural resource management (total value €170,709) 2003-2004 Marie Curie Training Site Fellowship, at the Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ – Centre for Environmental Research, in Leipzig, Germany 2003 The University of Queensland Graduate School Research Travel Award 2003 AW Howard Memorial Trust Grant 2003 Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences Postgraduate Travel Award 2003 Jean Gilmore Grant, Australian Federation of University Women – SA 2002-2005 Australian Postgraduate Award, with a top-up scholarship from Forestry Tasmania 1995-2001 Wyselaskie Scholarship in Classical and Comparative Philology and Logic, University of Melbourne

Supervision of students

2008-2011 Andrea Wallace, PhD student at Imperial College London: Participatory monitoring of fishers’ spatial behaviour: Estimating social costs in local conservation planning 2010 Brendan Costelloe, MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Testing the predictive powers of global biodiversity indicators (Distinction) 2010 Kathryn Sullivan, MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Testing the predictive powers of global biodiversity indicators 2010 Soizic Le Courtois, MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Household decision-making in Lac Alaotra, Madagascar (Distinction) 2009 Olena Tarasova, MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Systematic conservation planning in Ukraine under uncertainty 2008 Paul De Ornellas, MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: How uncertainty affects conservation planning – a Florida case study (Distinction)

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2008 José J. Lahoz-Monfort, MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Habitat suitability modelling for the Alaotran gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis) (Distinction, Gerald Durrell Award for best thesis) 2008 Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Occupancy and detectability of Hapalemur alaotrensis: recommendations for monitoring (Distinction)

Teaching 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London, including • Lecture, practical and reading groups on decision making in conservation • Lecture, practical and reading groups on conservation planning • Assessing theses • Marking exams 2009 Universidad Politecnica de Madrid: lecture on threat assessment for ecological communities 2008 University of Bath, undergraduate Conservation Biology module: Lecture on conservation planning 2003 Short course at the World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, “Conservation planning with software and expert judgement: targets, gaps and priorities” lead by Dr. Bob Pressey • Co-organisation • Two lectures on conservation planning • Tutorial on Marxan (software)

Selected conference presentations Dec 2011 Symposium organiser and convener, Society for Conservation Biology Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand Sept 2008 British Ecological Society Annual meeting July 2007 Society for Conservation Biology Meeting, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Dec 2005 Ecological Society of Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, invited presentation in Symposium ‘Ecological Modelling’ August 2005 IUFRO World Congress, Dec 2004 Ecological Society of Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, invited presentation in Symposium ‘The Conservation Challenge of Dispersive Fauna’ August 2004 Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, USA July 2004 Society for Conservation Biology, New York, USA Dec 2003 Biodiversity Symposium: Sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity, Berlin, Germany

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Sept 2003 World Parks Congress, IUCN, 8-17, Durban, South Africa, invited presentation in workshop ‘Building comprehensive protected area systems: Decision Support Tools’ July 2003 IALE International Association of Landscape Ecology, Darwin

Selected invited seminars April 2011 Royal Society discussion meeting Predictive ecology: systems approaches Dec 2008 University of Queensland and University of Melbourne, Australia Dec 2008 RMIT, Melbourne, Australia July 2008 Centre for Population Biology seminar, Imperial College Nov. 2006 Theoretical Ecology Seminar, Levin & Pacala Research group, Princeton, USA Sept 2004 Departmental seminar to the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Melbourne April 2006 Forestry Tasmania, Hobart, Australia June 2004 Seminar at Alterra, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands April 2004 Seminar at The University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy Feb 2004 Departmental seminar to the Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

Workshops Jan 2012 Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) work programme workshop, SESYNC, Annapolis, Maryland, USA Dec 2011 Workshop on Biodiversity Offsets, ARC Centre of Excellence in Environmental Decisions (CEED), RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Sept 2011 IUCN Red List for wetland ecosystems: scientific guidelines and case studies, Tour du Valat, France Dec 2010 Modelling Social-ecological Systems, organized by the Young Investigator Group “Besatzfisch”, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, June 2010 Co-organiser for Population Under Pressure, graduate symposium at Silwood Park, Imperial College London, funded by the Centre for Population Biology Nov 2009 Co-organiser of A framework for linking ecological and economic systems, Silwood Park, Imperial College, funded by the Centre for Population Biology and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College June 2009 & March 2010 Co-organiser of Scaling biodiversity monitoring from the local to the global, Silwood Park, Imperial College, funded by the Centre for Population Biology March 2008 Methods for Quantifying the Level of Threat of Ecosystems, Zoological Society of London 7 Emily Nicholson Curriculum vitae, May 2012

June 2008 Population Under Pressure, graduate symposium at Silwood Park, Imperial College London, funded by the Centre for Population Biology, presenter and session convener May 2007 Co-organiser and convenor, Assessing portfolio effectiveness and predicting outcomes in ecoregional conservation planning: results and peer review, Archbold Station, Florida, with The Nature Conservancy, Princeton University, and Florida Natural Areas Inventory October 2006 Co-organiser and convenor, Assessing portfolio effectiveness and predicting outcomes in ecoregional conservation, Gainesville, Florida, with The Nature Conservancy, Princeton University, and Florida Natural Areas Inventory Sept 2006 International Workshop on Info-Gap Applications in the Life Sciences, University of Houston College of Technology and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute January 2005 Co-organiser for an international workshop on conservation planning, Heron Island, Australia, funded by the Ecology Centre, University of Queensland Sept 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, invited presentation in Workshop Building comprehensive protected area systems: decision support tools.

Skills • Computing: Programming skills in Delphi 5 (Pascal) and R; Experienced with Adobe suite (including website development with Dreamweaver), Microsoft Office Suite, ArcGIS • Extensive experience in organising and convening workshops, including applying for funding • Experience liaising with government policy-makers, the non-government sector (e.g. The Nature Conservancy, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and Florida Natural Areas Inventory) and community stakeholders • Excellent written and verbal communications skills, analytical and research skills • Strong background in decision theory and decision making for conservation biology, ecology and applied statistics • Fluent in French

Personal and professional development • Regular reviewer for International journals, including: Ecology Letters, Conservation Biology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Ecological Applications, Biological Conservation, Conservation Letters, Ecological Modelling, Ecological Research, Animal Conservation • Participant in IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management working group to develop Red List criteria for ecosystems • Member of the Society for Conservation Biology, the British Ecological Society and the Ecological Society of Australia

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• Member of the organising committee for the 2005 Meeting for the Ecological Society of Australia • Co-organiser of a two day short course at the World Parks Congress 2003, Durban, South Africa • Conducted interviews with applicants for PhD and post-doctoral positions (Imperial) and administrative positions (University of Queensland) • Website developer and webmaster for the Imperial College Conservation Science group (2007- 2008) and Spatial Ecology Lab (2004-2006) • Post-graduate representative, School of Life Sciences, University of Queensland, 2002-03 • Regular participant and reporter in a marine programme on Community Radio, 1998-2002

References Professor Hugh Possingham Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland The Ecology Centre Imperial College London, The University of Queensland Division of Biology, Silwood Park Campus, St Lucia, Queensland 4072 Buckhurst Road, Australia Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY Tel: +61 7 3365 9766 United Kingdom Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 2509 Email: [email protected]

Dr David A. Keith NSW Department of Environment and Heritage, PO Box 1967, Hurstville, NSW 2220 Australia Tel: +61 (0) 427 856 498 Email: [email protected]

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