Nancy
Grimm

PROJECT

During her stay, Nancy Grimm will be working on SFNs for resilient cities, in collaboration with the Riverly research unit and the Anthares living lab.

BIOGRAPHY

Nancy Grimm is Regents Professor and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Ecology in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, where she currently leads a transdisciplinary graduate education initiative called Earth Systems Science for the Anthropocene. Her B.A. (1978) is from Hampshire College, and she earned her M.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1985) from ASU. She is an affiliate of the School of Sustainability and adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico. She was founding co-director of the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER and the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network and now directs the NATURA network of international networks. She was President and is fellow of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Freshwater Science and is fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

She has served as an NSF program director, a staff scientist and lead author for the third National Climate Assessment and is currently an editor of PNAS and AGU’s Perspectives in Earth and Space Sciences. She is a member of numerous national and international scientific advisory boards, and an author for United By Nature, the former 6th National Climate Assessment, and the Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment for North America. She recently held a distinguished visiting lectureship at Yale School of the Environment and was awarded the Alfred C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award from ASLO and the Award of Excellence from the Society for Freshwater Science.