Lauren McPhillips

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lauren McPhillips

Most Recent Publications

Optimal life-cycle adaptation of coastal infrastructure under climate change

Ashmita Bhattacharya, Konstantinos G. Papakonstantinou, Gordon P. Warn, Lauren McPhillips, Melissa M. Bilec, Chris E. Forest, Rahaf Hasan, Digant Chavda, 2025, Nature Communications

Controls From Above and Below: Snow, Soil, and Steepness Drive Diverging Trends of Subsurface Water and Streamflow Dynamics

Devon Kerins, Abigail S. Knapp, Fiona S. Liu, Valerie Diana Smykalov, Matthew P. Berzonsky, Andrew Vierbicher, Kayalvizhi Sadayappan, Bryn Stewart, Elizabeth M. Andrews, Pamela L. Sullivan, Holly R. Barnard, Jan Seibert, Lauren E. McPhillips, Kamini Singha, Li Li, 2025, Hydrological Processes

Internal Water Storage as a Means of Improving Nitrogen Retention and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emission in Stormwater Treatment

Tahiya Tarannum, Bishwodeep Adhikari, Lauren E. McPhillips, 2025, ACS ES and T Water on p. 1137-1147

Analysis of the Hydrologic Performance in a Lined Bioretention Basin and Implications for Monitoring and Design

Bishwodeep Adhikari, Lauren McPhillips, 2025, Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment

Quantifying soil moisture and evapotranspiration heterogeneity within a solar farm: Implications for stormwater management

Rouhangiz Yavari Bajehbaj, Raj Cibin, Jonathan Duncan, Lauren E. McPhillips, 2024, Journal of Hydrology on p. 131474

Life cycle assessment of green-grey coastal flood protection infrastructure: a case study from New Orleans

Rahaf Hasan, Lauren McPhillips, Gordon Warn, Melissa Bilec, 2024, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability

A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Stormwater Management Systems: Designing for Resiliency and Future Challenges

J. M. Hathaway, E. Z. Bean, J. T. Bernagros, D. P. Christian, H. Davani, A. Ebrahimian, C. M. Fairbaugh, J. S. Gulliver, L. E. McPhillips, G. Palino, E. W. Strecker, R. A. Tirpak, B. Van Duin, N. Weinstein, R. J. Winston, 2024, Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment

A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Stormwater Management Systems: Designing for Resiliency and Future Challenges

J. Hathaway, E. Bean, J. Bernagros, D. Christian, H. Davani, A. Ebrahimian, C. Fairbaugh, J. Gulliver, Lauren McPhillips, G. Palino, E. Strecker, R. Tirpak, B. Van Duin, N. Weinstein, R. Winston, 2024, Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment

Best Management Practices to Minimize Impacts of Solar Farms on Landscape Hydrology and Water Quality

Lauren McPhillips, Anthony Buda, Zachary Easton, W. Daniels, Siobhan Fathel, John Ignosh, Cibin Raj, David Sample, 2024, Chesapeake Bay Science and Technical Advisory Committee Publication

Impacts of Deicer Salt on Water Quality Performance of Stormwater Bioretention Systems with Varied Vegetation and Hydrology

Alexander Brown, Margaret C. Hoffman, Lauren McPhillips, 2024, ACS ES and T Water on p. 2882-2893

Most-Cited Papers

Defining Extreme Events: A Cross-Disciplinary Review

Lauren E. McPhillips, Heejun Chang, Mikhail V. Chester, Yaella Depietri, Erin Friedman, Nancy B. Grimm, John S. Kominoski, Timon McPhearson, Pablo Méndez-Lázaro, Emma J. Rosi, Javad Shafiei Shiva, 2018, Earth's Future on p. 441-455

Pluvial flood risk and opportunities for resilience

Bernice R. Rosenzweig, Lauren McPhillips, Heejun Chang, Chingwen Cheng, Claire Welty, Marissa Matsler, David Iwaniec, Cliff I. Davidson, 2018, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water

A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services

Timon McPhearson, Elizabeth Cook, M Berbés-Blázquez, Marta Berbes-Blazquez, Chingwen Cheng, Nancy Grimm, Erik Anderson, Erik Andersson, E Grimm, N.B., Andersson,, Olga Barbosa, Tiffany Troxler, David Chandler, Heeju Chang, V. Chester, Mikhail, Mikhail V. Chester, Daniel Childers, Stephen Elser, Niki Frantzeskaki, Zbigniew Grabowski, Peter Groffman, Rebecca Hale, David Iwaniec, Nadja Kabisch, Christopher Kennedy, Samuel Markolf, A. Matsler, Lauren McPhillips, Thaddeus Miller, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa Munoz-Erickson, Emma Rosi, Emma Rossi, Tiffany Troxler, 2022, One Earth on p. 505-518

Best Management Practices for Diffuse Nutrient Pollution: Wicked Problems across Urban and Agricultural Watersheds

Anna Lintern, Lauren McPhillips, Brandon Winfrey, Jonathan Duncan, Caitlin Grady, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology on p. 9159-9174

Temporal evolution of green stormwater infrastructure strategies in three us cities

Lauren E. McPhillips, A. Marissa Matsler, 2018, Frontiers in Built Environment

Infrastructures as socio-eco-technical systems: Five considerations for interdisciplinary dialogue

Z. J. Grabowski, A. M. Matsler, C. Thiel, L. McPhillips, R. Hum, A. Bradshaw, T. Miller, C. Redman, 2017, Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Developing knowledge systems for urban resilience to cloudburst rain events

Bernice Rosenzweig, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Lauren McPhillips, Robert Hobbins, Timon McPhearson, Zhongqi Cheng, Heejun Chang, Yeowon Kim, 2019, Environmental Science and Policy on p. 150-159

Hydrologic conditions drive denitrification and greenhouse gas emissions in stormwater detention basins

Lauren McPhillips, M. Todd Walter, 2015, Ecological Engineering on p. 67-75

The Role of Denitrification in Stormwater Detention Basin Treatment of Nitrogen

Natalie R. Morse, Lauren E. McPhillips, James P. Shapleigh, M. Todd Walter, 2017, Environmental Science & Technology on p. 7928-7935

Spatial analysis of landscape and sociodemographic factors associated with green stormwater infrastructure distribution in Baltimore, Maryland and Portland, Oregon

Ashley Baker, Emma Brenneman, Heejun Chang, Lauren McPhillips, Marissa Matsler, 2019, Science of the Total Environment on p. 461-473