Emily Nicholson Curriculum vitae, May 2012 Emily Nicholson Centenary Fellow Current address: 40 Melrose Street, School of Botany North Melbourne, VIC 3051, Australia 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 University of Queensland, 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 1 Emily Nicholson Curriculum vitae, May 2012 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) 2 Emily Nicholson Curriculum vitae, May 2012 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. Conservation Biology, 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 3 Emily Nicholson Curriculum vitae, May 2012 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.