Nancy B. Grimm is an ecosystem ecologist/biogeochemist and professor at Arizona State University, where she is Lead Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER project. Grimm’s research asks how landscape heterogeneity and climate variability influence retention, cycling, and transport of nitrogen, both in desert and urban landscapes. Grimm has published ~110 scholarly works and has received over $25M in collaborative research and training awards. She has mentored 42 graduate scholars, 29 post-doctoral scholars, and 41 undergraduate research scholars. She currently is an assigning editor for Ecological Applications and an editor for Ecohydrology. She is Past President of the North American Benthological Society and of the Ecological Society of America.