Catalyzing Conversations Series

Nancy Grimm

Nancy Grimm.

Arizona State University Regents Professor; Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Ecology; Distinguished Sustainability Scientist; Special Advisor to the Director for Faculty Mentoring and Development, School of Life Sciences.

Nancy B. Gimm is an ecosystem ecologist who studies the interactions of climate change, human activities, resilience, and biogeochemical processes in urban and stream ecosystems. In the urban realm, Grimm was founding director of the Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research program and co-directed the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network from 2015–2022. She now co-directs the international network of networks, NATURA (NATure-based solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene) and the graduate scholars network, Earth Systems Science for the Anthropocene (ESSA).

Professor Grimm’s collaborative research in urban social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) centers on nature-based, technological, and governance solutions that can build resilience to a future with increased frequency and magnitude of extreme events. In streams, Grimm and her students and colleagues study how hydrologic and climatic variability influence ecosystem processes such as stream metabolism and nutrient dynamics, and more recently, the impacts of a novel desert disturbance (wildfire) on stream processes through hydrologic connectivity of upland to stream-riparian corridor. Along with her colleagues and students, Grimm has made >230 contributions to the scientific literature.

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Event Details

  • Host Department:  Environment & Sustainability
  • Date:
    Thursday, April 10, 2025
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