Nancy B. Grimm

Nancy B. Grimm

  • Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
PO Box 874501
Tempe, AZ 85287

Phone: 480-965-4735   480-965-7643
Fax: 480-965-6899
Email: nbgrimm@asu.edu
Home Page: http://sols.asu.edu/faculty/ngrimm.php



Biography

Dr. Grimm studies how human-environment interactions and climate variability and change influence biogeochemical processes in both riverine and urban ecosystems, collaborating with hydrologists, engineers, geologists, chemists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists. Grimm investigates diverse topics, mostly focused on nitrogen cycling and retention in the context of landscape heterogeneity, including: 1) nitrate transport and retention in urban, agricultural, and natural streams; 2) biogeochemistry and hot spots of N transformation in urban landscapes; 3) effects of urban atmospheric deposition on ecosystem processes in deserts; 4) impacts of long-term climate variability and change on desert stream structure and function (nutrient retention, metabolism, and plant and invertebrate communities). She is a past president of the Ecological Society of America and the North American Benthological Society and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Grimm was a contributing author of the recently released synthesis report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. In that vein, she hopes to contribute to strategies for cities to both mitigate and adapt to environmental changes that are here today and increasing in severity.

Visit her Sycamore Creek research project pages

Selected Publications

See listings on http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/ngrimm.php

Expertise

biogeochemical processes; desertification; ecosystem disturbances; ecosystem ecology; ecosystem restoration; ecosystem services; land use change; riparian ecology; socioecology; terrestrial ecology; urban development; urban ecology; air quality; climate change impacts; future and systems thinking; climate change adaptation; urbanization; landscape studies; modeling and simulation; urban infrastructure; urban social-ecological systems; urbanization effects on weather and climate; water distribution systems; water resource management; watershed hydrology

Courses

  • BIO 426: Limnology
  • BIO 591: Grand Challenge of Climate Change
  • SOS/BIO 498/598: Urban Ecological Systems

Education

  • Ph.D., Zoology, Arizona State University - Tempe, 1985
  • M.S., Zoology, Arizona State University - Tempe, 1980
  • B.A., Natural Science, Hampshire College, 1978

Journal Articles

Beaulieu, J. J., J. L. Tank, S. K. Hamilton, W. M. Wollheim, R. O. Hall Jr., P. J. Mulholland, B. J. Peterson, L. R. Ashkenas, L. W. Cooper, C. N. Dahm, W. K. Dodds, N. B. Grimm, S. L. Johnson, W. H. McDowell, G. C. Poole, H. M. Valett, C. P. Arango, M. J. Bernot, A. J. Burgin, C. L. Crenshaw, A. M. Helton, L. Johnson, J. M. O Brien, J. D. Potter, R. W. Shiebley III, D. J. Sobota and S. M. Thomas. 2010. Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 108:214-219. (link)

Belnap, J., J. Welter, N. B. Grimm, N. Barger and J. Ludwig. 2005. Linkages between microbial and hydrologic processes in arid and semi-arid watersheds. Ecology 86:298-307.

Bernot, M. J., D. J. Sobota, R. O. Hall Jr., P. J. Mulholland, W. K. Dodds, J. R. Webster, J. L. Tank, L. R. Ashkenas, L. W. Cooper, C. N. Dahm, S. V. Gregory, N. B. Grimm, S. K. Hamilton, S. L. Johnson, W. H. McDowell, J. L. Meyer, B. Peterson, G. C. Poole, H. M. Valett, C. Arango, J. J. Beaulieu, A. J. Burgin, C. Crenshaw, A. M. Helton, L. Johnson, J. Merriam, B. R. Niederlehner, J. M. O Brien, J. D. Potter, R. W. Scheibley, S. M. Thomas and K. Wilson. 2010. Inter-regional comparison of land-use effects on stream metabolism. Freshwater Biology 55:1874-1890. (link)

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Books and Book Chapters

Fink, J., F. Steiner, N. B. Grimm and C. L. Redman. 2003. Greater Phoenix 2100: Building a national urban environmental research agenda. Pp. 413-426 In: G. Heiken, R. Fakundiny and J. Sutter. eds., Geosciences in the Cities. Volume 56,

Grimm, N. B., R. J. Arrowsmith, C. Eisinger, J. Heffernan, D. B. Lewis, A. MacLeod, L. Prashad, W. J. Roach, T. Rychener and R. W. Sheibley. 2004. Effects of urbanization on nutrient biogeochemistry of aridland streams. Pp. 129-146 In: R. DeFries, G. Asner and R. Houghton. eds., Ecosystem interactions with land use change. Volume 153, American Geophysical Union.

Grimm, N. B., L. J. Baker and D. Hope. 2003. An ecosystem approach to understanding cities: Familiar foundations and uncharted frontiers.. Pp. 95-114 In: A. Berkowitz R., K. Hollweg and C. H. Nilon. eds., Understanding urban ecosystems: A new frontier for science and education. Springer-Verlag.

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Posters/Presentations

Ahmed, B., K. A. Lohse, R. A. Sponseller and N. B. Grimm. 2007. Food web dynamics in above-ground desert remnant and xeric residential landscapes. Poster presented at the January 10, 2007 CAP LTER Ninth Annual Poster Symposium, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.. (link)

Ahmed, B., R. A. Sponseller, N. B. Grimm and S. J. Hall. 2008. Observed extracellular enzyme activity (EEA) in the Sonoran Desert. Poster presented at 10 January 2008 CAP LTER 10th Annual Poster Symposium, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link)

Allen, J. O., D. A. Gonzales, R. A. Sponseller, S. J. Hall and N. B. Grimm. 2008. Atmospheric dry deposition of gaseous and particulate nitrogen to urban-influenced Sonoran Desert sites in central Arizona. Presentation at the April 2008 18th Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, Orlando, FL.

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