• BS, Science of Earth Systems, Cornell University, 2007
• MS, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2013
• Ph D, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2016

Journal Articles

Alexander H. Brown, Margaret Hoffman and Lauren McPhillips, 2024, "Impacts of Deicer Salt on Water Quality Performance of Stormwater Bioretention Systems with Varied Vegetation and Hydrology", ACS ES & T Water, 4, (7), pp. 2882-2893

Rouhangiz Yavari Bajehbaj, Raj Cibin, Jonathan M Duncan and Lauren McPhillips, 2024, "Quantifying soil moisture and evapotranspiration heterogeneity within a solar farm: Implications for stormwater management", Journal of Hydrology, 638

Rahaf Hasan, Lauren McPhillips, Gordon P Warn and Melissa Bilec, 2024, "Life cycle assessment of green-grey coastal flood protection infrastructure: a case study from New Orleans", Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 4, (2)

J. M. Hathaway, E. Z. Bean, J. T. Bernagros, D. P. Christian, H. Davani, A. Ebrahimian, C. M. Fairbaugh, J. S. Gulliver, Lauren McPhillips, G. Palino, E. W. Strecker, R. A. Tirpak, B. Van Duin, N. Weinstein and R. J. Winston, 2024, "A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Stormwater Management Systems: Designing for Resiliency and Future Challenges", Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 10, (2)

Gregory H. LeFevre, Marccus D. Hendricks, Maya E. Carrasquillo, Lauren McPhillips, Brandon K. Winfrey and James R. Mihelcic, 2023, "The Greatest Opportunity for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Is to Advance Environmental Justice", Environmental Science and Technology, 57, (48), pp. 19088-19093

Rouhangiz Yavari Bajehbaj, Hong Wu, Caitlin Grady, Daniel Brent, Shirley E Clark, Raj Cibin, Jonathan M Duncan, Anil Kumar Chaudhary and Lauren McPhillips, 2023, "Identifying Sweet Spots for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Implementation: A Case Study in Lancaster, Pennsylvania", Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 9, (3)

Selena Hinojos, Lauren McPhillips, Peter Stempel and Caitlin Grady, 2023, "Social and environmental vulnerability to flooding: Investigating cross-scale hypotheses", Applied Geography, 157

Benjamin Choat, Amber Pulido, Aditi S. Bhaskar, Rebecca L. Hale, Harry X. Zhang, Thomas Meixner, Lauren McPhillips, Kristina Hopkins, Jennifer Cherrier and Chingwen Cheng, 2023, "Assessing stormwater control measure inventories from 23 cities in the United States", Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 3, (2)

Bishwodeep Adhikari, Rachel Perlman, Angela Rigden, M. Todd Walter, Shirley E Clark and Lauren McPhillips, 2023, "Field assessment of metal and base cation accumulation in green stormwater infrastructure soils", Science of the Total Environment, 875

Lauren McPhillips, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Rebecca Hale, Tamara K. Harms, Vanya Bisht, Liliana Caughman, Sandra M. Clinton, Elizabeth Cook, Xiaoli Dong, Jennifer Edmonds, Sarah Gergel, Rosa Gómez, Kristina Hopkins, David M. Iwaniec, Yeowon Kim, Amanda Kuhn, Libby Larson, David B. Lewis, Eugenía Martí, Monica Palta, W. John Roach and Lin Ye, 2023, "Learning from arid and urban aquatic ecosystems to inform more sustainable and resilient futures", Journal of Hydrology, 616

Adira Ajith Nair, A. N. Rohith, Raj Cibin and Lauren McPhillips, 2023, "A Framework to Model the Hydrology of Solar Farms Using EPA SWMM", Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Rouhangiz Yavari, Raj Cibin, Demetrius Zaliwciw and Lauren McPhillips, 2022, "Potential Impacts of Solar Farms on Landscape Hydrology: The State of Scientific Research and Stormwater Management Guidance", Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability

Benjamin Choat, Amber Pulido, Aditi S. Bhaskar, Rebecca L. Hale, Harry X. Zhang, Thomas Meixner, Lauren McPhillips, Kristina Hopkins, Jennifer Cherrier and Chingwen Cheng, 2022, "A Call to Record Stormwater Control Functions and to Share Network Data", JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE WATER IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 8, (2)

Timon McPhearson, Elizabeth M. Cook, Marta Berbes-Blazquez, Chingwen Cheng, Nancy B. Grimm, Erik Anderson, Olga Barbosa, David G. Chandler, Heeju Chang, V. Chester, Mikhail, Daniel L. Childers, Stephen R. Elser, Niki Frantzeskaki, Zbigniew Grabowski, Peter Groffman, Rebecca L. Hale, David M. Iwaniec, Nadja Kabisch, Christopher Kennedy, Samuel A. Markolf, A. Marissa Matsler, Lauren McPhillips, Thaddeus R. Miller, Tischa A. Munoz-Erickson, Emma Rossi and Tiffany G. Troxler, 2022, "A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services", ONE EARTH, 5, (5), pp. 505-518

Lauren McPhillips, Marissa Matsler, Bernice Rosenzweig and Yeowon Kim, 2020, "What is the role of green stormwater infrastructure in managing extreme precipitation events?", Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Anna Lintern, Lauren McPhillips, Brandon Winfrey, Jonathan M Duncan and Caitlin Grady, 2020, "Best Management Practices for Diffuse Nutrient Pollution: Wicked Problems Across Urban and Agricultural Watersheds", Environmental Science & Technology, 54, (15), pp. 9159-9174

Lauren McPhillips, Stevan R. Earl, Rebecca L. Hale and Nancy B. Grimm, 2019, "Urbanization in semi-arid Arizona watersheds results in decreased stream flashiness", Water Resources Research, 55, (11)

Bernice Rosenzweig, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Lauren McPhillips, Robert Hobbins, Timon McPhearson, Zhongqi Cheng, Heejun Chang and Yeowon Kim, 2019, "Developing knowledge systems for urban resilience to cloudburst rain events", Environmental Science and Policy, 99, pp. 150-159

Christa Kelleher and Lauren McPhillips, 2019, "Exploring the application of topographic indices in urban areas as indicators of pluvial flooding locations", Hydrological Processes, Early View

Ashley Baker, Emma Brenneman, Heejun Chang, Lauren McPhillips and Marissa Matsler, 2019, "Spatial analysis of landscape and sociodemographic factors associated with green stormwater infrastructure distribution in Baltimore, Maryland and Portland, Oregon", Science of the Total Environment, 664, pp. 461-473

Bernice Rosenzweig, Lauren McPhillips, Heejun Chang, Chingwen Cheng, Claire Welty, Marissa Matsler, David Iwaniec and Cliff Davidson, 2018, "Pluvial Flooding Risk and Resilience", Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs)- Water, 5, (6)

Lauren E McPhillips and Marissa Matsler, 2018, "Temporal evolution of green stormwater infrastructure in three US cities", Frontiers in Built Environment, 4

Lauren McPhillips, Heejun Chang, Mikhail V. Chester, Yaella Depietri, Erin Friedman, Nancy B. Grimm, John S. Kominoski, Timon McPhearson, Pablo Méndez-Lázaro, Emma J. Rosi and Javad Shafiei Shiva, 2018, "Defining Extreme Events: A Cross-Disciplinary Review", Earth's Future, 6, (3), pp. 441-455

Lauren McPhillips, Christine Goodale and M. Todd Walter, 2018, "Nutrient Leaching and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Grassed Detention and Bioretention Stormwater Basins", Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 4, (1), pp. 04017014

Z. J. Grabowski, A. M. Matsler, C. Thiel, Lauren McPhillips, R. Hum, A. Bradshaw, T. Miller and C. Redman, 2017, "Infrastructures as Socio-Eco-Technical Systems: Five Considerations for Interdisciplinary Dialogue", Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 23, (4), pp. 02517002

Natalie R. Morse, Lauren McPhillips, James P. Shapleigh and M. Todd Walter, 2017, "The Role of Denitrification in Stormwater Detention Basin Treatment of Nitrogen", Environmental Science & Technology, 51, (14), pp. 7928-7935

Elliot S. Friedman, Lauren McPhillips, Jeffrey J. Werner, Angela C. Poole, Ruth E. Ley, M. Todd Walter and Largus T. Angenent, 2016, "Methane Emission in a Specific Riparian-Zone Sediment Decreased with Bioelectrochemical Manipulation and Corresponded to the Microbial Community Dynamics", Frontiers in Microbiology, 6

Lauren McPhillips, Peter M. Groffman, Rebecca L. Schneider and M. Todd Walter, 2016, "Nutrient Cycling in Grassed Roadside Ditches and Lawns in a Suburban Watershed", Journal of Environment Quality, 45, (6), pp. 1901

Lauren McPhillips and M. Todd Walter, 2015, "Hydrologic conditions drive denitrification and greenhouse gas emissions in stormwater detention basins", Ecological Engineering, 85, pp. 67-75

Lauren McPhillips, Peter M. Groffman, Christine L. Goodale and M. Todd Walter, 2015, "Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Drivers of Riparian Denitrification in an Agricultural Watershed", Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 226, (6)

Lauren McPhillips, Anne Elise Creamer, Brian G. Rahm and M. Todd Walter, 2014, "Assessing dissolved methane patterns in central New York groundwater", Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 1, pp. 57-73

J. W. Harvey, J. D. Drummond, R. L. Martin, Lauren McPhillips, A. I. Packman, D. J. Jerolmack, S. H. Stonedahl, A. F. Aubeneau, A. H. Sawyer, L. G. Larsen and C. R. Tobias, 2012, "Hydrogeomorphology of the hyporheic zone: Stream solute and fine particle interactions with a dynamic streambed", Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 117, (G4), pp. n/a-n/a

Ben L. O'Connor, Judson W. Harvey and Lauren McPhillips, 2012, "Thresholds of flow-induced bed disturbances and their effects on stream metabolism in an agricultural river", Water Resources Research, 48, (8)

Judson W. Harvey, Gregory B. Noe, Laurel G. Larsen, Daniel J. Nowacki and Lauren McPhillips, 2011, "Field flume reveals aquatic vegetation's role in sediment and particulate phosphorus transport in a shallow aquatic ecosystem", Geomorphology, 126, (3-4), pp. 297-313

Conference Proceedings

Ashmita Bhattacharya, Gordon P Warn, Kostas G. Papakonstantinou, Melissa M. Bilec, Lauren McPhillips, Chris E Forest, Rahaf Hasan, Aditya Sharma and Digant Chavda, 2023, "Optimal Design and Life-Long Adaptation of Civil Infrastructure under Climate Change and Uncertain Demands", pp. 70-79

Other

Lauren McPhillips, Anthony Buda, Zachary Easton, W. Lee Daniels, Siobhan Fathel, John Ignosh, Cibin Raj and David Sample, 2024, "Best Management Practices to Minimize Impacts of Solar Farms on Landscape Hydrology and Water Quality", Chesapeake Bay Science and Technical Advisory Committee Publication

• November 2021 - October 2026, "IRES Track 1: Sources and solutions of nonpoint source pollution," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• September 2021 - August 2026, "LEAP HI: Optimal design and life-long adaptation of civil infrastructure in a changing and uncertain environment for a sustainable future," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• November 2020 - October 2025, "ECO-CBET: Transforming the Nitrogen Bioeconomy," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• July 2021 - October 2023, "Impacts of salt loading on nutrient and metal processing in stormwater bioretention," (Sponsor: Chesapeake Bay Trust).

• November 2021 - October 2022, "Towards sustainable solar farm development: Minimizing environmental impact and maximizing ecosystem services," (Sponsor: Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Strategic Networks and Initiatives Program (SNIP)).

• Translational Research Award, Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment, January 2025

• Best Paper Award, Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment/ ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute, May 2020

Service to Penn State:

• Participation in Governance Bodies and Related Activities, Co-Chairperson, Penn State Water Council Co-Chair, Penn State Water Council, August 2024

• Participation in Governance Bodies and Related Activities, Member, Penn State Water Council Member, Penn State Water Council, August 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Biogeochemistry Dual Title Executive Committee, Biogeochemistry Dual Title Executive Committee, August 2021

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Civil & Environmental Engineering Teaching Excellence Committee, Civil & Environmental Engineering Teaching Excellence Committee, August 2020 - August 2022

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Water Graduate Program Committee, Water Graduate Program Committee, April 2019 - February 2020

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Civil & Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Committee, Civil & Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Committee, August 2018 - August 2020

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Awards Committee, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Awards Committee, September 2018 - August 2019

Service to External Organizations:

• Service to Governmental Agencies, Board Member, Board Member, State College Borough Water Authority, November 2022

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute, Climate Change and Stormwater, July 2021

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute, Urban Water Resources Research Council, May 2019

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, Committee on Sustainability, Sustainability Liaison Subcommittee, June 2018 - June 2021

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Fall Meeting Session Co-Chair and Convener, American Geophysical Union, December 2018