User:Willyhamfunk/Kimberly Nicholas

Kimberly Nicholas is a professor at Lund University and her research focuses on issues of sustainability, examining the connections between land, people and climate, in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Early Life & Education
Kimberly Nicholas was raised on a Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard in Sonoma County, California, where she developed an early interest in viticulture. Nicholas earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Systems at Stanford University in 1999. After graduating from Stanford University with honors, she joined with the Clear Air Council in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a policy analyst until 2001. In 2003, Nicholas began her PhD studies with Stanford University in Environment and Resources, earning her PhD in 2009. She sought out additional training in viticulture, completing a Master of Science at the University of California, Davis in 2009.

Research and Career
Nicholas researches and writes about a range of environmental issues, often surrounding agriculture and associated greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, Nicholas has examined the impacts of warming temperatures on viticulture, on both the quality and quantity of grape yields. Nicholas is currently an Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University.

She was awarded the "Best Paper of 2017" for an article in Environmental Research Letters titled, "The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions". This paper was also named by Carbon Brief as one of the "Top 10 Climate Papers.

In a live BBC interview in 2017, she discussed climate change and the impact of President Trump taking the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Kimberly In 2019, Nicholas was awarded the Innovation in Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America, invited to be a reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their sixth climate assessment and awarded a 1 million SEK grant from Lund Municipality to address the city's greenhouse gas emissions.

Nicholas' wide interdisciplinary scope of study is reflected in the variety of scholarly articles she's received publications for since 2004.

Sustainable Viticulture
In one article from 2020 titled, "Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses", and published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Kimberly Nicholas and her team of scientists demonstrate how increasing grape diversity, by growing wine grapes in the same plots as their natural relatives, might cut the predicted yield losses due to climate change by half during a two-degree celsius temperature increase scenario.

Climate Education
In an article co-authored by Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas titled, "The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions", and published in IOPScience, the most effective strategies for individual climate change mitigation are highlighted in a way that teaches consumers how citizens of Western nations can live more sustainably.

Climate Activism
Outside of academics and research, Nicholas contributes to raising awareness for climate change by writing op-ed articles and attending climate strikes around Europe, like the 2019 school climate strike in Lund, Sweden, where she spoke to a crowd of climate protesters.

Career Timeline

 * 1996-1999 Bachelors of Science (Honors), Earth Systems, at Stanford University.
 * 1999-2001 Policy Analyst, Clean Air Council.
 * 2001-2003 Master of Science, Land Resources, at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
 * 2003-2009 PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University.
 * 2008-2013 Senior Scientist, Fruit Fly Wine Sciences.
 * 2009 Master of Science, Horticulture and Agronomy, University of California, Davis.
 * 2019 Director of PhD Studies, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies.