Conference participation
Scientific Conference Organization and Presentations I am an active contributor to the scientific community through speaking at invited, plenary, and parallel conference sessions, as well as contributing to the community by organizing sessions at university, national, and international conferences.
Conference Organization
2020
Co-Organizer, “Flight Free Vacation Practices” session at SCORAI (4th Annual Sustainable Consumption Research & Action Initiative Conference, “Sustainable Consumption Sustainable Consumption & Social Justice in an Urbanizing World.) Boston, USA + virtual hub Stockholm, Sweden. June 10-12, 2020
2019
Co-Organizer, “Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Working together for an environmentally ambitious, evidence-based agricultural policy.” Center for Environment and Climate Research, Lund University. 5 December 2019.
2015
Scientific Advisor, Communications Team, Our Common Future Under Climate Change Conference, Paris, France. Helped develop communications strategy and link scientists with media and communications opportunities throughout the four-day conference with over 2,000 attendees.
2014
Co-chair of “Ecosystem Services: Translating Biophysical Functions to Human Benefits and Values” session at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.
2012
Co-organizer, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) Research Symposium with group research presentations by 25 staff members and interactive sessions with 50 master’s students.
2011
Organizer of one-day colloquium, “Global food security: Biophysical and social limits and opportunities,” sponsored by the Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative. Stockholm. Designed conference theme and materials, solicited and judged abstracts, and selected and arranged presentations from ten international and Swedish researchers for an audience of 80 scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.
2011
Co-chair of “Ecosystem Services: Hydrology and Biogeochemistry in a World of Environmental Change” session at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.
Invited Research Keynotes, Presentations and Seminars
2019
Adopting, implementing, and scaling up an academic flying less policy: Lessons from Lund, Sweden (Wed, Nov 13, 2019). Reducing Flying in Academia. University of Sheffield, UK. Sheffield, England (Virtual).
2019
How to solve climate change (Wed, Nov 13, 2019). Climate Symposium. Universidad de Jaén. Jaén, Spain (Virtual).
2019
The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground (Tue, Nov 5, 2019). Workshop for Swedish researchers on reducing flying. Humanities Lab. Stockholm, Sweden.
2019
Sustainability Science Without Flying (Wed, Oct 30, 2019). Virtual Blue COP 25. (Virtual).
2019
Population, Environment, and Human Development in Science and Popular Media (Wed, Sep 25, 2019). Ethical Perspectives on Population and the Sustainable Development Goals. Institute for Futures Study. Stockholm, Sweden.
2019
Leading by example in decreasing academic flying: LUCSUS Flying Less (Fri, May 10, 2019). Sustainability Science Day, HELSUS; talk with Emily Boyd, Wim Carton. HELSUS, University of Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki, Finland (Virtual).
2019
“Higher education, lower emissions: Academics flying less.” Invited keynote at Spring Campus Conference of the University Alliance for Sustainability. Freie Universität Berlin. (Virtual presentation)
2019
“A vision for a 1.5°C-compatible wine industry by 2035.” Invited talk at “Climate Change Leadership: Solutions for the Wine Industry,” 5-7 March, Porto, Portugal.
2019
“Growing and enjoying wine in a changing climate.” Keynote speaker, Phenology Symposium 2019: Phenological Shifts and their Impact on Society. Uppsala University, Sweden. 4 February.
2018
“Progress in reducing academic flying.” Virtual talk at “Fly right? Tracking and addressing greenhouse gas emissions from air travel at your institution.” Town Hall, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC (virtual presentation), December.
2018
"Facts, Feelings, and Sacred Cows,” Lund University Social Sciences Faculty Retreat, 21 November
2018
“Quantifying the carbon space and time to avoid dangerous climate change.” Institute for Futures Studies, Climate Ethics and Future Generations, international kickoff and first annual meeting. 26-28 September 2018.
2018
"The past, present, and future of climate change and wine." Keynote at VitiNord 2018 Scandinavia. 31 July.
2018
"From Population to A Child: Personalizing Future Generations and Climate Change." Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm. 21 March 2018. Film
2018
“Interdisciplinary Land System Science.” Panel discussion with Sara Brogaard, Lina Eklund, Veiko Lehsten, Ali Mansourian, Kimberly Nicholas, and Jasper van Vliet. 1 February, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University.
2017
“How we solved climate change: A retrospective from 2050.” Voted best keynote of Öredev Software Developers conference by 500 attendees.
2017
“Ten things I wish I’d known ten years ago.” Presentation to Early Career Scholars at Earth Systems Governance Conference, Lund. 8 October 2017.
2017
“Should scientists stop flying? Decoupling carbon from knowledge in an age of climate change.” Panelist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology seminar, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Environmental Humanities Lab. 28 March 2017.
2016
“Climate mitigation, biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate.” BECC Annual Meeting, Varberg, Sweden. October 23.
“Social and behavioral change for transformation.” Universitas21 Informing Climate Action. Washington, DC. May 3.
“Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?” The First Danish Future Earth Summit: SDG Challenges for Nordic Countries. Copenhagen, Denmark. June 3.
2014
Panelist, LUCID Early Career Researchers Conference, “Integrating the social and natural dimensions of sustainability.” Lund, Sweden.
Panel Chair, Early Career Scientists, 31st General Assembly of ICSU (International Council for Science), Auckland, New Zealand.
“Climate impacts on winegraps yields, composition, phenology and vineyard management.” Seminar at INRAE Montpellier, 26 June 2014.
“Quantifying and qualifying terroir: Empirical evidence linking climate, vineyards, and people across scales.” European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. 27 April-2 May.
2013
“From global land grabs to urban food forestry: Land use decisions and climate impacts in food systems across scales” Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
Stockholm Environment Institute/Stockholm Resilience Centre. Stockholm, Sweden.
2011
38th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, San Diego, CA.
2010
American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, CA.
2009
6th Annual California Climate Change Conference, Sacramento, CA.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Conference Presentations (presentation given by first author unless marked with *; underline = student or postdoc/researcher under my supervision)
2020
57.
Ullström, Sara, Johannes Stripple, and Kimberly Nicholas. “Aspirational luxury, hypermobility, and staying on the ground: Tracing narratives of holiday air travel in Sweden, 1950-2020.” Presentation in “Flight Free Vacation Practices” session at SCORAI (4th Annual Sustainable Consumption Research & Action Initiative Conference, “Sustainable Consumption Sustainable Consumption & Social Justice in an Urbanizing World.) Boston, USA + virtual hub Stockholm, Sweden. June 10-12, 2020.
2019
56.
KA Nicholas. “A university climate curriculum based on synthesis science.” (Thu, Nov 7, 2019). Teaching and Learning Conference 2019. Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University. Lund, Sweden.
55.
Richard Smart and Kimberly A Nicholas. 2019. “Using grapevine prunings as a renewable energy source to help fight climate change.” 42nd World Congress of Vine and Wine/17th General Assembly of the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV). 15-19 July 2019, Geneva, Switzerland.
54.
Altaaf Mechiche-Alami1, Jihad Yagoubi2, Kimberly Nicholas. “A typology of agricultural land investments and potential impacts on the food security of African countries.” Flash talk, 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme, April 24-26, 2019, Bern, Switzerland
53.
Murray W. Scown, Klara J. Winkler, and Kimberly A. Nicholas. “A tale of two perspectives: aligning land systems research and policy for the Sustainable Development Goals in European agriculture.” Oral presentation, 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme,April 24-26, 2019, Bern, Switzerland
52.
Boyd, E, A Dornellas, W Boonstra, I Delabre, M Denny, V Grim, A Jentsch, L Muhammad, KA Nicholas, M Schroeter, R Seppelt, J Settele, N Shackelford, R Standish, G Tambang Yengoh and T Oliver. Undesirable resilience: a constructive perspective for sustainability and transformation science. Leverage Points: International conference on sustainability research and transformation. Hamburg, 6-8 February 2019.
2018
51.
KA Nicholas. “Making mitigation meaningful.” Institute for Futures Studies, Research Seminar, June 2019.
50.
KA Nicholas. “Who should do what to solve climate change?” LUCID Grand Finale, Lund University, October 15-17.
49.
Murray W Scown, Klara J Winkler, Kimberly A Nicholas. “Seeing the landscape for the farm: Combining conceptual and empirical approaches to understand agricultural systems.” Landscape 2018: Frontiers of Agricultural Research, 12-16 March, Berlin.
48.
KA Nicholas. “A rose by any other name: Stakeholder values and ecosystem services.” Lund University Biodiversity Winter Meeting, March 2018.
47.
“Interdisciplinary Land Sciences.” Panel discussion at Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University. January 2018.
2017
46.
Emma Johansson, Marianela Fader, Jonathan Seaquist, and Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Green and blue water demand from large-scale land acquisitions in Africa.” Resilience 2017. Hydrological surprises in an interconnected world. August 20-23, Stockholm, Sweden.
45.
Klara J. Winkler, Murray Scown, and Kimberly A. Nicholas. “A review of causes and consequences of rural land use in Europe.” European Landscape Ecology Congress, Ghent, 12-15 September 2017.
44.
Stefan Olin, Mark Brady, Kimberly A Nicholas. “Climate-neutralizing managed landscapes in Sweden.” Modeling European Climate Change for Food Security (MACSUR) Science Conference, 22-24 May, Berlin.
43.
Emma Li Johansson, Marianela Fader, Jonathan W. Seaquist, Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Simulating potential water grabbing from large-scale land acquisitions in Africa.” Hydrology, society and environmental change, European Geophysical Union, 8-13 April 2017, Vienna, Austria.
2016
43.
Kimberly A Nicholas, Mark V Brady, Stefan Olin, Johan Ekroos, Marianne Hall, Jonathan W. Seaquist, Veiko Lehsten and Henrik Smith. “Defining, Measuring, and Incentivizing Sustainable Land Use to Meet Human Needs.” Oral presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 12-16 December, 2016.
42.
KA Nicholas, H Schoonover, S Brunner, A Gret-Regamey, A Liski, I Rosário, M Santos-Reis, A Dyankov, R Popova, J Lascurain, A van Teeffelen. “Demand for ecosystem services: Synthesis from seven case studies.” OPERAs UserBoard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 16.
41.
Stefan Olin, Jasmine Livingston, Kimberly Nicholas, Anna-Maria
Jönsson, Ullrika Sahlin. A process oriented framework to evaluate quality in evidence relying on simulation models. The First International Conference of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden August 25-27, 2016.
40.
J Gupta and KA Nicholas. “An equity argument for nature-based solutions to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.” European Ecosystem Services Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 19-23 September.
39.
Klara J. Winkler, Joshua H. Viers, Rodd Kelsey, KA Nicholas. “Ecosystem services and vineyards: focus on single services hinders appreciation of multifunctional landscapes.” Oral presentation at European Ecosystem Services Conference, 19 - 23 September 2016, Antwerp, Belgium.
38.
T Krause, AJ Liski, M Metzger, P Ambros, KA Nicholas. “Farming with wading birds and tidal waters – The governance of adaptation to climate change in the Inner Forth estuary in Scotland.” Oral presentation at European Ecosystem Services Conference, 19 - 23 September 2016, Antwerp, Belgium.
37.
H Schoonover, KA Nicholas, et al. “Creating Space, Aligning Motivations, and Building Trust: Key Elements of Stakeholder Engagement in 12 Ecosystem Services Case Studies.” Oral presentation at European Ecosystem Services Conference, 19 - 23 September 2016, Antwerp, Belgium.
36.
KA Nicholas, Pontus Ambros*, Noor Nasir, Ellen Redford, Cherry Tsoi, and Marius S Weshke. “Climate Change Curriculum.” Oral presentation at European Environmental Sciences Student Association. 23-31 July 2016, Belarus.
2015
35.
Seth Wynes and KA Nicholas. “High-Impact Actions for Individuals to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 14-18 December 2015. Link to Abstract.
34.
Elisabeth J Forrestel, Benjamin Cook, IG de Cortazar-Atauri, KA Nicholas, A Parker, C van Leeuwen, EM Wolkovich. “Projections of Suitable Wine Growing Regions and Varieties: Adaptation in Space or Place?” Oral presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 14-18 December 2015. Link to abstract.
33.
KA Nicholas and EL Johansson. “Virtual water exported from Californian agriculture.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 14-18 December 2015. Link to abstract.
KA Nicholas. “Developing Scientific Consensus Statements to Guide Social Transitions: Lessons Learned From ‘Our Common Future Under Climate Change’”. Oral presentation at “Transformations 2015: People and the Planet in the Anthropocene.” October 5-7, Stockholm, Sweden. Link to abstract.
32.
KA Nicholas, Pontus Ambros, Noor Nasir, Ellen Redford, Cherry Tsoi, and Marius S Weschke. “An Open-Source Climate Change Curriculum for University Education Based on IPCC Synthesis Science.” Poster presentation at Our Common Future Under Climate Change, 7-10 July, Paris, France.
31.
Klara J. Winkler, Joshua H. Viers, Rodd Kelsey, Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Vineyards and Ecosystem Services.” Poster presentation at World Congress for Vine and Wine, 6th - 8th July 2015, Mainz, Germany.
30.
Klara J. Winkler, Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Cultural Ecosystem Services in English and Californian Vineyard landscapes.” European Society for Ecological Economics: Transformations, 30 June - 3 July 2015, Leeds, Great Britain
2014
29.
KA Nicholas. “Illustrating human-nature interactions in ecosystem services: The case of terroir in wine.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 15-19 December
28.
KA Nicholas, P Ambros, L Kirkvold, C Moessner, N Nasir, N Pfefferle, E Redford, C Tsoi, and MS Weschke. “A climate change curriculum based on synthesis science.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
27.
KA Nicholas. “Mapping the environmental, economic, and social tradeoffs of European farming systems across scales.” Oral presentation at Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
26.
Clark, Kyle H, and KA Nicholas. “Urban food forestry: Leveraging urban tree diversity for urban food security and social innovation.” Oral presentation at International Conference on Urban Tree Diversity, Alnarp, Sweden. 16-18 June
25.
KA Nicholas. “Farmer decisions on land use and climate adaptation from the local to global scale.” Oral presentation at the Global Land Project Open Science Meeting. 19-21 March, 2014. Berlin, Germany.
24.5
J Seaquist, EL Johansson, KA Nicholas. “The land grab as a network.” Oral presentation at the Global Land Project Open Science Meeting. 19-21 March, 2014. Berlin, Germany.
24.
KA Nicholas. “Making Ecosystem Services Valuable to Stakeholders.” Oral presentation at the Stockholm Workshop on Natural Capital and Resilience: Frontiers in Research, Tools, Policy and Practice. Stockholm, Sweden.
2013
23.
KA Nicholas, G Feola, A Lerner, M Jain, and M Montefrio. “Farmer responses to multiple stresses in the face of global change: Assessing five case studies to enhance adaptation.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. December 9-13
22.
KA Nicholas. “Vineyard phenology and climate.” Oral presentation (via Skype) at Vinecology: The integration of ecological and viticultural practices, Oakville, CA.
21.
KA Nicholas, J Seaquist, E. Johansson, and L. McElvenney. “Global land grabs: Patterns, processes, and potential contributions to food security.” Poster presentation at Food Futures: Young Scientists Networking Conference on Integrated Science, International Council for Science/International Social Science Council, Villa Vigonni, Lake Como, Italy. 14-19 April
20.
KA Nicholas. “Two new frameworks for acceptable, generalizable climate adaptation: Case studies from agriculture.” Oral presentation at the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Hamburg, Germany.
2012
19.
Clark, K, and KA Nicholas. “Urban food forestry: A multifunctional strategy for enhancing landscape sustainability.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
18.
KA Nicholas, J Seaquist, E. Johansson, and L. McElvenney. “Global land grabs: Patterns, processes, and potential contributions to food security.” Poster presentation at Worlds Within Reach: From Science to Policy, IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference. 24-26 October, 2012. Vienna, Austria.
17.
KA Nicholas, T Twine, CU Ummenhofer, E Girvetz, N Chhetri, H McCarthy, and H Xu. “Modeling Biophysical and Human Responses to Climate Change for Food Security.” Poster presentation at Planet Under Pressure, London, England. March 26-29
16.
KA Nicholas, W Dripps, and D O’Byrne. “Assessing Higher Education Curricula in Sustainability Science: Theory vs. Practice.” Oral presentation at Leuphana Sustainability Summit, Lüneburg, Germany. 29 February- 2 March.
2011
15.
KA Nicholas, T Twine, CU Ummenhofer, E Girvetz, N Chhetri, Heather R McCarthy, and H Xu. “Cross-Continental Comparisons of Grain Yields Under Climate Change: Potential for Agricultural Adaptation to Offset Losses.” Oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 05-09 December
14.
Nicholas, KA, EM Wolkovich, and LB Webb. “Trends in Climate and Phenological Changes in Winegrapes in California and Australia.” Oral presentation at the American Society for Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA, USA. June 20-24
13.
Nicholas, KA. “Embedding Adaptiveness in Space and Time to Enhance Resilience: A Case Study from California’s Wine Industry.” Oral presentation at the Earth Systems Governance Conference, Fort Collins, CO, USA. 17-20 May
2010
12.
Nicholas, KA, N Chhetri, E Girvetz, H McCarthy, T Twine, and CC Ummenhofer. “The Future of Food: Regional Adaptation Strategies for Optimizing Grain Yields Under Climate Change.” Poster at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
11.
Nicholas Cahill, K, S Iacobellis, D Cayan, M Greenspan, and M Bobbitt. “Using cloud imagery and distance to water to improve spatial climate estimates for coastal winegrowing sites in California.” Oral presentation at the American Society for Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.
10.
Nicholas Cahill, K. “Winegrower Responses to Environmental Stresses: An Analysis of Potential Farm-Scale Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change.” Oral presentation at the 7th International Symposium on Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology, Seattle, WA, USA.
2009
9.
Nicholas Cahill, K, DA Cayan, and MD Dettinger. “Building a Rich Community-Contributed Phenology Dataset: Lessons Learned from Winegrapes in California’s Napa Valley.” Poster at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
8.
Nicholas Cahill, K, MA Matthews, CB Field, and DB Lobell. “Vineyard-scale climate variability, vine light intensity, and Pinot noir phenolic composition.” Oral presentation at the American Society for Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting, Napa, CA, USA. (news story)
2008
8.
Nicholas Cahill, K. “Improving speed and accuracy in the Harbertson-Adams phenolics assay.” Oakville Research Station, Oakville, CA, USA. (27 March 2008)
7.
Nicholas Cahill, K, and MA Matthews. “Grape preparation methods for fast, accurate results with the Harbertson-Adams phenolic assay.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture, Portland, OR, USA.
2007
6.
Nicholas Cahill, K, DB Lobell, CB Field, and C Bonfils. “Modeling climate and climate change impacts on wine grape yields in California.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture, Reno, NV, USA. Best Student Poster Award (Viticulture).
5.
Nicholas Cahill, K, DB Lobell, CB Field, C Bonfils, and K Hayhoe. “Modeling climate change impacts on wine grape yields and quality in California.” Talk given at UNESCO Chair of Wine and Culture Colloquium “Global warming: Which potential impacts in the vineyards?”, Dijon, France.
4.
Nicholas Cahill, K, CA Reisman, K Hayhoe, J Van Dorn, EP Maurer, MA Matthews, and DE Block. “Climate and climate change impacts on California Cabernet Sauvignon wine quality.” Talk given at UNESCO Chair of Wine and Culture Colloquium, Dijon, France.
2004
3.
Nicholas Cahill, K, CB Field, and K Hayhoe. “Emissions pathways, climate change, and future wine grape quality in California.” Poster presented at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A53B-0897.
2003
2.
Nicholas Cahill, K, JA Foley, and CJ Kucharik. “Large uncertainties in estimating grassland carbon fluxes: Can net ecosystem production be inferred?” Poster at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B51D-0986.
2002
1.
Nicholas Cahill, K, JA Foley, CJ Kucharik, and TC Balser. “Carbon cycling in restored Wisconsin grasslands: examining linkages between plant diversity, microbial communities, and ecosystem processes.” Poster at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. Eos Trans. AGU, 83 (47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A12A-0138.
Conference Organization
2020
Co-Organizer, “Flight Free Vacation Practices” session at SCORAI (4th Annual Sustainable Consumption Research & Action Initiative Conference, “Sustainable Consumption Sustainable Consumption & Social Justice in an Urbanizing World.) Boston, USA + virtual hub Stockholm, Sweden. June 10-12, 2020
2019
Co-Organizer, “Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Working together for an environmentally ambitious, evidence-based agricultural policy.” Center for Environment and Climate Research, Lund University. 5 December 2019.
2015
Scientific Advisor, Communications Team, Our Common Future Under Climate Change Conference, Paris, France. Helped develop communications strategy and link scientists with media and communications opportunities throughout the four-day conference with over 2,000 attendees.
2014
Co-chair of “Ecosystem Services: Translating Biophysical Functions to Human Benefits and Values” session at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.
2012
Co-organizer, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) Research Symposium with group research presentations by 25 staff members and interactive sessions with 50 master’s students.
2011
Organizer of one-day colloquium, “Global food security: Biophysical and social limits and opportunities,” sponsored by the Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative. Stockholm. Designed conference theme and materials, solicited and judged abstracts, and selected and arranged presentations from ten international and Swedish researchers for an audience of 80 scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.
2011
Co-chair of “Ecosystem Services: Hydrology and Biogeochemistry in a World of Environmental Change” session at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.
Invited Research Keynotes, Presentations and Seminars
2019
Adopting, implementing, and scaling up an academic flying less policy: Lessons from Lund, Sweden (Wed, Nov 13, 2019). Reducing Flying in Academia. University of Sheffield, UK. Sheffield, England (Virtual).
2019
How to solve climate change (Wed, Nov 13, 2019). Climate Symposium. Universidad de Jaén. Jaén, Spain (Virtual).
2019
The Takeoff of Staying on the Ground (Tue, Nov 5, 2019). Workshop for Swedish researchers on reducing flying. Humanities Lab. Stockholm, Sweden.
2019
Sustainability Science Without Flying (Wed, Oct 30, 2019). Virtual Blue COP 25. (Virtual).
2019
Population, Environment, and Human Development in Science and Popular Media (Wed, Sep 25, 2019). Ethical Perspectives on Population and the Sustainable Development Goals. Institute for Futures Study. Stockholm, Sweden.
2019
Leading by example in decreasing academic flying: LUCSUS Flying Less (Fri, May 10, 2019). Sustainability Science Day, HELSUS; talk with Emily Boyd, Wim Carton. HELSUS, University of Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki, Finland (Virtual).
2019
“Higher education, lower emissions: Academics flying less.” Invited keynote at Spring Campus Conference of the University Alliance for Sustainability. Freie Universität Berlin. (Virtual presentation)
2019
“A vision for a 1.5°C-compatible wine industry by 2035.” Invited talk at “Climate Change Leadership: Solutions for the Wine Industry,” 5-7 March, Porto, Portugal.
2019
“Growing and enjoying wine in a changing climate.” Keynote speaker, Phenology Symposium 2019: Phenological Shifts and their Impact on Society. Uppsala University, Sweden. 4 February.
2018
“Progress in reducing academic flying.” Virtual talk at “Fly right? Tracking and addressing greenhouse gas emissions from air travel at your institution.” Town Hall, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC (virtual presentation), December.
2018
"Facts, Feelings, and Sacred Cows,” Lund University Social Sciences Faculty Retreat, 21 November
2018
“Quantifying the carbon space and time to avoid dangerous climate change.” Institute for Futures Studies, Climate Ethics and Future Generations, international kickoff and first annual meeting. 26-28 September 2018.
2018
"The past, present, and future of climate change and wine." Keynote at VitiNord 2018 Scandinavia. 31 July.
2018
"From Population to A Child: Personalizing Future Generations and Climate Change." Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm. 21 March 2018. Film
2018
“Interdisciplinary Land System Science.” Panel discussion with Sara Brogaard, Lina Eklund, Veiko Lehsten, Ali Mansourian, Kimberly Nicholas, and Jasper van Vliet. 1 February, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University.
2017
“How we solved climate change: A retrospective from 2050.” Voted best keynote of Öredev Software Developers conference by 500 attendees.
2017
“Ten things I wish I’d known ten years ago.” Presentation to Early Career Scholars at Earth Systems Governance Conference, Lund. 8 October 2017.
2017
“Should scientists stop flying? Decoupling carbon from knowledge in an age of climate change.” Panelist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology seminar, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Environmental Humanities Lab. 28 March 2017.
2016
“Climate mitigation, biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climate.” BECC Annual Meeting, Varberg, Sweden. October 23.
“Social and behavioral change for transformation.” Universitas21 Informing Climate Action. Washington, DC. May 3.
“Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?” The First Danish Future Earth Summit: SDG Challenges for Nordic Countries. Copenhagen, Denmark. June 3.
2014
Panelist, LUCID Early Career Researchers Conference, “Integrating the social and natural dimensions of sustainability.” Lund, Sweden.
Panel Chair, Early Career Scientists, 31st General Assembly of ICSU (International Council for Science), Auckland, New Zealand.
“Climate impacts on winegraps yields, composition, phenology and vineyard management.” Seminar at INRAE Montpellier, 26 June 2014.
“Quantifying and qualifying terroir: Empirical evidence linking climate, vineyards, and people across scales.” European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. 27 April-2 May.
2013
“From global land grabs to urban food forestry: Land use decisions and climate impacts in food systems across scales” Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
Stockholm Environment Institute/Stockholm Resilience Centre. Stockholm, Sweden.
2011
38th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, San Diego, CA.
2010
American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, CA.
2009
6th Annual California Climate Change Conference, Sacramento, CA.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Conference Presentations (presentation given by first author unless marked with *; underline = student or postdoc/researcher under my supervision)
2020
57.
Ullström, Sara, Johannes Stripple, and Kimberly Nicholas. “Aspirational luxury, hypermobility, and staying on the ground: Tracing narratives of holiday air travel in Sweden, 1950-2020.” Presentation in “Flight Free Vacation Practices” session at SCORAI (4th Annual Sustainable Consumption Research & Action Initiative Conference, “Sustainable Consumption Sustainable Consumption & Social Justice in an Urbanizing World.) Boston, USA + virtual hub Stockholm, Sweden. June 10-12, 2020.
2019
56.
KA Nicholas. “A university climate curriculum based on synthesis science.” (Thu, Nov 7, 2019). Teaching and Learning Conference 2019. Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University. Lund, Sweden.
55.
Richard Smart and Kimberly A Nicholas. 2019. “Using grapevine prunings as a renewable energy source to help fight climate change.” 42nd World Congress of Vine and Wine/17th General Assembly of the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV). 15-19 July 2019, Geneva, Switzerland.
54.
Altaaf Mechiche-Alami1, Jihad Yagoubi2, Kimberly Nicholas. “A typology of agricultural land investments and potential impacts on the food security of African countries.” Flash talk, 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme, April 24-26, 2019, Bern, Switzerland
53.
Murray W. Scown, Klara J. Winkler, and Kimberly A. Nicholas. “A tale of two perspectives: aligning land systems research and policy for the Sustainable Development Goals in European agriculture.” Oral presentation, 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme,April 24-26, 2019, Bern, Switzerland
52.
Boyd, E, A Dornellas, W Boonstra, I Delabre, M Denny, V Grim, A Jentsch, L Muhammad, KA Nicholas, M Schroeter, R Seppelt, J Settele, N Shackelford, R Standish, G Tambang Yengoh and T Oliver. Undesirable resilience: a constructive perspective for sustainability and transformation science. Leverage Points: International conference on sustainability research and transformation. Hamburg, 6-8 February 2019.
2018
51.
KA Nicholas. “Making mitigation meaningful.” Institute for Futures Studies, Research Seminar, June 2019.
50.
KA Nicholas. “Who should do what to solve climate change?” LUCID Grand Finale, Lund University, October 15-17.
49.
Murray W Scown, Klara J Winkler, Kimberly A Nicholas. “Seeing the landscape for the farm: Combining conceptual and empirical approaches to understand agricultural systems.” Landscape 2018: Frontiers of Agricultural Research, 12-16 March, Berlin.
48.
KA Nicholas. “A rose by any other name: Stakeholder values and ecosystem services.” Lund University Biodiversity Winter Meeting, March 2018.
47.
“Interdisciplinary Land Sciences.” Panel discussion at Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University. January 2018.
2017
46.
Emma Johansson, Marianela Fader, Jonathan Seaquist, and Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Green and blue water demand from large-scale land acquisitions in Africa.” Resilience 2017. Hydrological surprises in an interconnected world. August 20-23, Stockholm, Sweden.
45.
Klara J. Winkler, Murray Scown, and Kimberly A. Nicholas. “A review of causes and consequences of rural land use in Europe.” European Landscape Ecology Congress, Ghent, 12-15 September 2017.
44.
Stefan Olin, Mark Brady, Kimberly A Nicholas. “Climate-neutralizing managed landscapes in Sweden.” Modeling European Climate Change for Food Security (MACSUR) Science Conference, 22-24 May, Berlin.
43.
Emma Li Johansson, Marianela Fader, Jonathan W. Seaquist, Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Simulating potential water grabbing from large-scale land acquisitions in Africa.” Hydrology, society and environmental change, European Geophysical Union, 8-13 April 2017, Vienna, Austria.
2016
43.
Kimberly A Nicholas, Mark V Brady, Stefan Olin, Johan Ekroos, Marianne Hall, Jonathan W. Seaquist, Veiko Lehsten and Henrik Smith. “Defining, Measuring, and Incentivizing Sustainable Land Use to Meet Human Needs.” Oral presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 12-16 December, 2016.
42.
KA Nicholas, H Schoonover, S Brunner, A Gret-Regamey, A Liski, I Rosário, M Santos-Reis, A Dyankov, R Popova, J Lascurain, A van Teeffelen. “Demand for ecosystem services: Synthesis from seven case studies.” OPERAs UserBoard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 16.
41.
Stefan Olin, Jasmine Livingston, Kimberly Nicholas, Anna-Maria
Jönsson, Ullrika Sahlin. A process oriented framework to evaluate quality in evidence relying on simulation models. The First International Conference of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden August 25-27, 2016.
40.
J Gupta and KA Nicholas. “An equity argument for nature-based solutions to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.” European Ecosystem Services Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 19-23 September.
39.
Klara J. Winkler, Joshua H. Viers, Rodd Kelsey, KA Nicholas. “Ecosystem services and vineyards: focus on single services hinders appreciation of multifunctional landscapes.” Oral presentation at European Ecosystem Services Conference, 19 - 23 September 2016, Antwerp, Belgium.
38.
T Krause, AJ Liski, M Metzger, P Ambros, KA Nicholas. “Farming with wading birds and tidal waters – The governance of adaptation to climate change in the Inner Forth estuary in Scotland.” Oral presentation at European Ecosystem Services Conference, 19 - 23 September 2016, Antwerp, Belgium.
37.
H Schoonover, KA Nicholas, et al. “Creating Space, Aligning Motivations, and Building Trust: Key Elements of Stakeholder Engagement in 12 Ecosystem Services Case Studies.” Oral presentation at European Ecosystem Services Conference, 19 - 23 September 2016, Antwerp, Belgium.
36.
KA Nicholas, Pontus Ambros*, Noor Nasir, Ellen Redford, Cherry Tsoi, and Marius S Weshke. “Climate Change Curriculum.” Oral presentation at European Environmental Sciences Student Association. 23-31 July 2016, Belarus.
2015
35.
Seth Wynes and KA Nicholas. “High-Impact Actions for Individuals to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 14-18 December 2015. Link to Abstract.
34.
Elisabeth J Forrestel, Benjamin Cook, IG de Cortazar-Atauri, KA Nicholas, A Parker, C van Leeuwen, EM Wolkovich. “Projections of Suitable Wine Growing Regions and Varieties: Adaptation in Space or Place?” Oral presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 14-18 December 2015. Link to abstract.
33.
KA Nicholas and EL Johansson. “Virtual water exported from Californian agriculture.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 14-18 December 2015. Link to abstract.
KA Nicholas. “Developing Scientific Consensus Statements to Guide Social Transitions: Lessons Learned From ‘Our Common Future Under Climate Change’”. Oral presentation at “Transformations 2015: People and the Planet in the Anthropocene.” October 5-7, Stockholm, Sweden. Link to abstract.
32.
KA Nicholas, Pontus Ambros, Noor Nasir, Ellen Redford, Cherry Tsoi, and Marius S Weschke. “An Open-Source Climate Change Curriculum for University Education Based on IPCC Synthesis Science.” Poster presentation at Our Common Future Under Climate Change, 7-10 July, Paris, France.
31.
Klara J. Winkler, Joshua H. Viers, Rodd Kelsey, Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Vineyards and Ecosystem Services.” Poster presentation at World Congress for Vine and Wine, 6th - 8th July 2015, Mainz, Germany.
30.
Klara J. Winkler, Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Cultural Ecosystem Services in English and Californian Vineyard landscapes.” European Society for Ecological Economics: Transformations, 30 June - 3 July 2015, Leeds, Great Britain
2014
29.
KA Nicholas. “Illustrating human-nature interactions in ecosystem services: The case of terroir in wine.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 15-19 December
28.
KA Nicholas, P Ambros, L Kirkvold, C Moessner, N Nasir, N Pfefferle, E Redford, C Tsoi, and MS Weschke. “A climate change curriculum based on synthesis science.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
27.
KA Nicholas. “Mapping the environmental, economic, and social tradeoffs of European farming systems across scales.” Oral presentation at Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
26.
Clark, Kyle H, and KA Nicholas. “Urban food forestry: Leveraging urban tree diversity for urban food security and social innovation.” Oral presentation at International Conference on Urban Tree Diversity, Alnarp, Sweden. 16-18 June
25.
KA Nicholas. “Farmer decisions on land use and climate adaptation from the local to global scale.” Oral presentation at the Global Land Project Open Science Meeting. 19-21 March, 2014. Berlin, Germany.
24.5
J Seaquist, EL Johansson, KA Nicholas. “The land grab as a network.” Oral presentation at the Global Land Project Open Science Meeting. 19-21 March, 2014. Berlin, Germany.
24.
KA Nicholas. “Making Ecosystem Services Valuable to Stakeholders.” Oral presentation at the Stockholm Workshop on Natural Capital and Resilience: Frontiers in Research, Tools, Policy and Practice. Stockholm, Sweden.
2013
23.
KA Nicholas, G Feola, A Lerner, M Jain, and M Montefrio. “Farmer responses to multiple stresses in the face of global change: Assessing five case studies to enhance adaptation.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. December 9-13
22.
KA Nicholas. “Vineyard phenology and climate.” Oral presentation (via Skype) at Vinecology: The integration of ecological and viticultural practices, Oakville, CA.
21.
KA Nicholas, J Seaquist, E. Johansson, and L. McElvenney. “Global land grabs: Patterns, processes, and potential contributions to food security.” Poster presentation at Food Futures: Young Scientists Networking Conference on Integrated Science, International Council for Science/International Social Science Council, Villa Vigonni, Lake Como, Italy. 14-19 April
20.
KA Nicholas. “Two new frameworks for acceptable, generalizable climate adaptation: Case studies from agriculture.” Oral presentation at the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Hamburg, Germany.
2012
19.
Clark, K, and KA Nicholas. “Urban food forestry: A multifunctional strategy for enhancing landscape sustainability.” Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
18.
KA Nicholas, J Seaquist, E. Johansson, and L. McElvenney. “Global land grabs: Patterns, processes, and potential contributions to food security.” Poster presentation at Worlds Within Reach: From Science to Policy, IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference. 24-26 October, 2012. Vienna, Austria.
17.
KA Nicholas, T Twine, CU Ummenhofer, E Girvetz, N Chhetri, H McCarthy, and H Xu. “Modeling Biophysical and Human Responses to Climate Change for Food Security.” Poster presentation at Planet Under Pressure, London, England. March 26-29
16.
KA Nicholas, W Dripps, and D O’Byrne. “Assessing Higher Education Curricula in Sustainability Science: Theory vs. Practice.” Oral presentation at Leuphana Sustainability Summit, Lüneburg, Germany. 29 February- 2 March.
2011
15.
KA Nicholas, T Twine, CU Ummenhofer, E Girvetz, N Chhetri, Heather R McCarthy, and H Xu. “Cross-Continental Comparisons of Grain Yields Under Climate Change: Potential for Agricultural Adaptation to Offset Losses.” Oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. 05-09 December
14.
Nicholas, KA, EM Wolkovich, and LB Webb. “Trends in Climate and Phenological Changes in Winegrapes in California and Australia.” Oral presentation at the American Society for Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA, USA. June 20-24
13.
Nicholas, KA. “Embedding Adaptiveness in Space and Time to Enhance Resilience: A Case Study from California’s Wine Industry.” Oral presentation at the Earth Systems Governance Conference, Fort Collins, CO, USA. 17-20 May
2010
12.
Nicholas, KA, N Chhetri, E Girvetz, H McCarthy, T Twine, and CC Ummenhofer. “The Future of Food: Regional Adaptation Strategies for Optimizing Grain Yields Under Climate Change.” Poster at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
11.
Nicholas Cahill, K, S Iacobellis, D Cayan, M Greenspan, and M Bobbitt. “Using cloud imagery and distance to water to improve spatial climate estimates for coastal winegrowing sites in California.” Oral presentation at the American Society for Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.
10.
Nicholas Cahill, K. “Winegrower Responses to Environmental Stresses: An Analysis of Potential Farm-Scale Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change.” Oral presentation at the 7th International Symposium on Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology, Seattle, WA, USA.
2009
9.
Nicholas Cahill, K, DA Cayan, and MD Dettinger. “Building a Rich Community-Contributed Phenology Dataset: Lessons Learned from Winegrapes in California’s Napa Valley.” Poster at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA.
8.
Nicholas Cahill, K, MA Matthews, CB Field, and DB Lobell. “Vineyard-scale climate variability, vine light intensity, and Pinot noir phenolic composition.” Oral presentation at the American Society for Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting, Napa, CA, USA. (news story)
2008
8.
Nicholas Cahill, K. “Improving speed and accuracy in the Harbertson-Adams phenolics assay.” Oakville Research Station, Oakville, CA, USA. (27 March 2008)
7.
Nicholas Cahill, K, and MA Matthews. “Grape preparation methods for fast, accurate results with the Harbertson-Adams phenolic assay.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture, Portland, OR, USA.
2007
6.
Nicholas Cahill, K, DB Lobell, CB Field, and C Bonfils. “Modeling climate and climate change impacts on wine grape yields in California.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture, Reno, NV, USA. Best Student Poster Award (Viticulture).
5.
Nicholas Cahill, K, DB Lobell, CB Field, C Bonfils, and K Hayhoe. “Modeling climate change impacts on wine grape yields and quality in California.” Talk given at UNESCO Chair of Wine and Culture Colloquium “Global warming: Which potential impacts in the vineyards?”, Dijon, France.
4.
Nicholas Cahill, K, CA Reisman, K Hayhoe, J Van Dorn, EP Maurer, MA Matthews, and DE Block. “Climate and climate change impacts on California Cabernet Sauvignon wine quality.” Talk given at UNESCO Chair of Wine and Culture Colloquium, Dijon, France.
2004
3.
Nicholas Cahill, K, CB Field, and K Hayhoe. “Emissions pathways, climate change, and future wine grape quality in California.” Poster presented at American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A53B-0897.
2003
2.
Nicholas Cahill, K, JA Foley, and CJ Kucharik. “Large uncertainties in estimating grassland carbon fluxes: Can net ecosystem production be inferred?” Poster at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B51D-0986.
2002
1.
Nicholas Cahill, K, JA Foley, CJ Kucharik, and TC Balser. “Carbon cycling in restored Wisconsin grasslands: examining linkages between plant diversity, microbial communities, and ecosystem processes.” Poster at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. Eos Trans. AGU, 83 (47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A12A-0138.
