Lauren McPhillips
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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226B Sackett
University Park, PA - lxm500@psu.edu
- 814-865-4564
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Most Recent Publications
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. 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
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
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
The Greatest Opportunity for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Is to Advance Environmental Justice
Gregory H. LeFevre, Marccus D. Hendricks, Maya E. Carrasquillo, Lauren E. McPhillips, Brandon K. Winfrey, James R. Mihelcic, 2023, Environmental Science & Technology on p. 19088-19093
Nature-based solutions as critical urban infrastructure for water resilience
Lauren McPhillips, Hong Wu, Carolina Rojas Quezada, Bernice Rosenzweig, Jason R. Sauer, Brandon Winfrey, 2023, on p. 147-166
Social and environmental vulnerability to flooding: Investigating cross-scale hypotheses
Selena Hinojos, Lauren McPhillips, Peter Stempel, Caitlin Grady, 2023, Applied Geography
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
News Articles Featuring Lauren McPhillips
Mar 19, 2023
Greening the grey: Engineering natural solutions for stormwater management
Labyrinths of concrete and metal creep below and along our city streets, exposed only by pockmarks of manhole covers and the dark of drains.
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Nov 12, 2019
Urban development reduces flash flooding chances in arid West
Urban development in the eastern United States results in an increase in flash flooding in nearby streams, but in the arid West, urbanization has just the opposite effect, according to a Penn State researcher, who suggests there may be lessons to be learned from the sharp contrast.
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