Nicolas Kamenos

RESEARCH PROFILE

My research investigates the relationships between climate change and marine biogeochemistry with particular focus on carbon burial as a nature-based solution to climate change.

CURRENT POSTIONS

• 2022 to date    Professor of Marine Ecosystem Science, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Sweden.
• 2022 to date    Director, Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Umeå University, Sweden.

EDUCATION & RELEVANT POSITIONS

• 2017 to 2022 Reader in Climate-Organism Dynamics, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• 2014 to 2017 Senior/Lecturer in Organism-Climate Dynamics, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• 2009 to 2014 Scottish Government / Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• 2006 to 2009 NERC Independent Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, Scotland 2001 to 2004 PhD, Marine Biology, University of London, UK
• 1997 to 2000 BSc Marine Biology, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales (1^st Class with Honours)

RELEVANT GRANT INCOME IN LAST 10 YEARS (Total to date SEK 160M)

Strategic Infrastructure Grants

• Canario, A., et al. (inc. Kamenos, N.A.). 2024. AQUASERV – Research infrastructure for sustainable aquaculture, fisheries and the blue economy. Horizon Europe (14.1M Euro, 250K Euro to Umeå, grant num: 101131121)
• Rinne, J., et al. (inc. Kamenos, N.A.). 2024. Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change risks (IRISCC). Horizon Europe (14.5M Euro, 250K Euro to Umeå, grant num: 101131261)
• Newman L. et al. (inc. Kamenos, N.A.) 2023. Swedish Research Vessel Infrastructure for Marine Research (SWERVE) (SEK131M, Euro11M, Grant num: 2023-00159)
• Wainwright. J, Kamenos, N.A., Fernandes, T. Stead, S., Zerkle, A., Tinsley, M., Hodgson, D., Naden, J., Jenkins, A. 2018. IAPETUS: Delivering excellence in PhD training across the spectrum of environmental science. Natural Environmental Research Council UK (£7.3M., Euro 8.5M NE/S007431/1)
• Padget, M. et al (inc. Kamenos, N.A.) 2012. Upgrading the small-scale equipment base for early career researchers in the engineering and physical sciences Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK (£559,906, Euro 652K, grant num: EP/K031732/1)

Kamenos Research Grants

• Burdett, H.L, Andersson, M., Maccaferri, N., Kamenos, N.A. 2024. Understanding light-matter interactions in coralline algae systems from the macroscale down to the single cell level. Kempe Foundation (SEK 950K, Euro 82K)
• Burdett, H.L., Kamenos, N.A., Sandström, C., Ha, H.T., Hour, I., Nguyen, C., Vu, K.C. 2023. Socio- political potential of blue carbon economies in SE Asia. Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) (SEK 5,938,694, Euro 514117, Grant num: 2023-05759).
• Linders, T. et al., including Kamenos, N.A. 2023 Co-creating better blue. MISTRA (50M SEK total, 4.3M SEK to Kamenos, C2B2).
• Kamenos, N.A., Ohloson, F., Libby, E. 2023. Expulsion events as drivers of evolution in endosymbiotic systems. The Kempe Foundation / IceLab (700K SEK)
• Kamenos, N.A, Karlsson, J., Gudasz, C. 2022. ORGANIC: Long-term storage of organic carbon in marine sediments. Carl Tryggers Foundation (600K SEK, CT22 2139).
• Kamenos, N.A. (PI), Juul-Pedersen, T., Cameron, K., Hamilton, L., Burdett, H.L. 2021. Arctic fjords as carbon burial hotspots. Natural Environment Research Council UK Studentship (£89K (SEK 1M))
• Kamenos, N.A. (PI) and Anderson, C.D. 2021. High latitude blue carbon in a changing world. (visiting position for Kamenos). Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (Norway) (£45K (SEK 527K))
• Kamenos, N.A. (PI) 2020. Blue carbon under global change. Marine Scotland (£134K (SEK 1.6M), Grant code: MaerlBlueCarb)
• Kamenos, N.A. (PI) (for Johnson, M.) 2018. VARIO: The influence of natural pH VARIability on ecosystem response to ocean acidification. Horizon 2020 (£294K (SEK 3.5M); Project number: 798514)
• Kamenos, N.A. (PI) (for Olive, I.) 2017. SEAMET: Multi-driver climate change effects on Seagrass Metabolism: ecosystem implications. Horizon 2020 (£290K (SEK 3.4M); Project number: 752250)
• Burdett, H.L., Kamenos, N.A. (Co-PI) 2017. Blue coral: the ocean acidification winners. Science and Technology Facilities Council UK (£81K (SEK 942K), Grant num: 19564)
• Kamenos, N.A., Rae, J., Foster, G. 2017. NERC DTP. Oceans on Acid: using historic ocean acidification to understand marine ecosystem function under global change (£77,854 (SEK 965K)).
• Mair, D. Kamenos, N.A., Rea, B. and Schofield, E. 2014. Leverhulme. Calving Glaciers: Long term validation and evidence (£263,331 (SEK 3.3M)).

ESTEEM INDICATORS

• Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment, Scientific Steering Committee (2023 to date)
• Natural Environment UK (senior), Portuguese and The Carnegie Trust Peer Review Colleges (2017 to date)
• The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Review College (2015 - 2022).
• Macquire University (Australia): Grant review panel as international expert (2016 - 2022)
• External Examiner for University of Essex and University of the Highlands and Islands, UK (2016-2022)
• Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland (MASTS): Elected Convenor of the Marine Biogeochemistry Forum (MASTS is an £80M pooling initiative) (2014 to 2022)
• Royal Society of Edinburgh / Scottish Government Personal Research Fellowship (2008)
• NERC Independent Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2006)

SELECTED RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS / BOOK SECTIONS: (>70 on marine ecosystems –see appended full publication list)

• Langley, B, Burdett, H.L., Cameron, K., Rouillard, A., Slaymark, C., Kamenos, N.A. (2024). Arctic and sub-Arctic marine sediments have disproportionately large role in hosting the global organic carbon stock. Nature, in review.
• Mao, J., Burdett, H. L., & Kamenos, N. A. (2024). Efficient carbon recycling between calcification and photosynthesis in red coralline algae. Biology Letters, 20(6), 20230598. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2023.0598
• James, K., Macreadie, P. I., Burdett, H. L., Davies, I., & Kamenos, N. A. (2024). It's time to broaden what we consider a ‘blue carbon ecosystem’. Global Change Biology, 30(5), e17261. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17261
• Burdett, H. L., Albright, R., Foster, G. L., Mass, T., Page, T. M., Rinkevich, B., Schoepf, V., Silverman, J., & Kamenos, N. A. (2024). Including environmental and climatic considerations for sustainable coral reef restoration. PLoS biology, 22(3), e3002542. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002542
• MacDonald, E., Foster, G.L., Standish, C.D., Trend, J., Page, T.M., Kamenos, N.A. (2024) Historic ocean acidification of Loch Sween revealed by correlative geochemical imaging and high- resolution boron isotope analysis of Boreolithothamniom cf. soriferum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in press.
• Kamenos, N.A. & Hennige S.J, 2024. A Historic perspective to thermal and heatwave induced bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. In: Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs. Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef, edited by E. Wolanski and M. Kingsford Routledge 2024 2 edn.
• Tuya, F., Schubert, N., Aguirre, J., Basso, D., Bastos, E. O., Berchez, F., Bernardino, A. F., Bosch,
  N. E., Burdett, H. L., Espino, F., Fernández-Gárcia, C., Francini-Filho, R. B., Gagnon, P., Hall- Spencer, J. M., Haroun, R., Hofmann, L. C., Horta, P. A., Kamenos, N. A., Le Gall, L., Magris,
  R. A., Martin, S., Nelson, W. A., Neves, P., Olivé, I., Otero-Ferrer, F., Peña, V., Pereira-Filho, G. H., Ragazzola, F., Rebelo, A. C., Ribeiro, C., Rinde, E., Schoenrock, K., Silva, J., Sissini, M. N., & Tâmega, F. T. S. (2023). Levelling-up rhodolith-bed science to address global-scale conservation challenges. Science of the Total Environment, 892, 164818. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164818
• Hofmann, L.C., Schoenrock, K.M, Kamenos, N.A., Aguirre, J., Silva, J., Schubert, N. 2022 Coralline algae: Past, present, and future perspectives. Frontiers in Marine Science 2022 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.109727
• Olivé, I., García-Robledo, E., Silva, J., Pintado-Herrera, M.G., Santos, R., Kamenos, N.A., Cuet, P., Frouin, P. 2022. Contribution of the seagrass Syringodium isoetifolium to the metabolic functioning of a tropical reef lagoon. Frontiers in Marine Science 2022 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.867986
• Hennige, S.J., Larsson, A.I., Orejas, C., Gori, A., De Clippele, L.H., Lee, Y.C., Jimeno, G., Georgoulas, K., Kamenos, N.A. and Roberts, J. M. 2021. Using the Goldilocks Principle to model coral ecosystem engineering. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1956), 20211260. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1260
• Mao, J., Burdett, H. L., McGill, R. A. R., Newton, J., Gulliver, P., & Kamenos, N. A. 2020. Carbon burial over the last four millennia is regulated by both climatic and land use change. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15021
• Rasher, D.B., Steneck, R.S., Halfar, J., Kroeker, K.J., Ries, J.B., Tinker, M.T., Chan, P.T.W.,
• Fietzke, J., Kamenos, N.A., Konar, B.H., Lefcheck, J.S., Norley, C.J.D., Weitzman, B.P., Westfield, I.T., and Estes, J.A. 2020. Keystone predators govern the pathway and pace of climate impacts in a subarctic marine ecosystem. Science 369, 1351-1354. doi: 10.1126/science.aav7515
• Schoenrock, K.M., Vad, J., Muth, A., Pearce, D.M., Rea, B.R., Schofield, J.E., and Kamenos, N.A. Biodiversity of kelp forests and coralline algae habitats in southwestern Greenland. Diversity 10, 117. doi: 10.3390/d10040117

• Schoenrock, K.M., Bacquet, M., Pearce, D., Rea, B.R., Schofield, J.E., Lea, J., Mair, D., and Kamenos, N.A. 2018. Influences of salinity on the physiology and distribution of the Arctic coralline algae, Lithothamnion glaciale (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 54, 690-702. doi: 10.1111/jpy.12774
• Kamenos, N.A., Hennige, S.J. 2018. Reconstructing four centuries of temperature-induced bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. Front. Mar. Sciences doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00283
• Burdett, H.L., Perna, G., McKay, L., Broomhead, G., Kamenos, N.A. 2018. Community-level sensitivity of a calcifying ecosystem to acute in situ CO2 enrichment. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 587:73-80 doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12421
• Kamenos N.A., Perna G, Gambi M.C., Micheli F, Kroeker K.J. 2016. Coralline algae in a naturally acidified ecosystem persist by maintaining control of skeletal mineralogy and size. Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. 283:20161159. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1159
• van der Heijden, L. H., & Kamenos, N. A. 2015. Calculating the global contribution of coralline algae to total carbon burial. Biogeosciences, 12:6429-6441. doi:10.5194/bg-12-6429-2015
• McCoy, S. & Kamenos, N.A. 2015. Coralline algae in a changing world: Integrating ecological, physiological and geochemical responses to global change (review article). J. Phycol. 51:6-24 doi: 10.1111/jpy.12262
• Attard, K., Stahl, H., Kamenos, N.A., Turner, G., Burdett, H.L., Glud, N.R. 2015. Benthic oxygen exchange in a live coralline algal bed and an adjacent sandy habitat: an eddy covariance study. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 535: 99-115 doi: 10.3354/meps11413
• Kamenos, N.A. 2010. North Atlantic summers have warmed more than winters since 1351 and the response of marine zooplankton. PNAS. 107, 22442-22447