Rate My Professor Nancy Grimm

An ecosystem ecologist and interdisciplinary sustainability scientist, Grimm investigates interactions of climate variation and change, human activities, and ecosystem processes in dryland streams and cities, emphasizing disturbances such as floods and droughts, resilience, biogeochemical cycles, and effects of stormwater infrastructure and extreme events on urban social-ecological-technological systems. Her pioneering interdisciplinary collaborations have shaped urban ecology as a subdiscipline and influenced sustainability and resilience research globally. Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2019, she is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008), Ecological Society of America (2012), Society for Freshwater Science (2019), and American Geophysical Union (2017). Honors include the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award (Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, 2023), Award of Excellence (Society for Freshwater Science, 2023), Sustainability Science Award (Ecological Society of America, 2019), and Arizona State University Regents Professor (2019). Key publications feature 'Global change and the ecology of cities' (Science, 2008), 'Biogeochemical hot spots and hot moments at the interface of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems' (Ecosystems, 2003), 'Integrated approaches to long-term studies of urban ecological systems' (BioScience, 2000), and edited books Ecohydrological Interfaces (2024) and Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (2009). She served as President of the Ecological Society of America (2005–2006) and Society for Freshwater Science (1999–2000), and editor for Earth’s Future, Ecohydrology, and Ecosystems.