Lauren McPhillips
Assistant Prof @ Penn State; into water, soils, infrastructure, nature-based solutions, sustainability, biking, looking at the bright side. mom of 2 energetic humans. Alum of Cornell/ USGS/ ASU. she/her. sites.psu.edu/lmcphillips/
- Intriguing trends in grey vs green stormwater infra strategies in the new ASCE infra report card. "Although green infrastructure is critical in addressing localized drainage and water quality, these systems cannot provide sufficient capacity to manage large-scale stormwater events."
- Penn State is hosting the regional American Soc of Civil Engineers Student Symposium. Day 1 is in the books! So much energy and creativity in these student competitions ❤️
- Happy vernal equinox! Every year I am amazed again at nature's rebirth, the ability of plants to push through the depths of soil to grow again 🌱
- New review paper out on fluvial flood reduction 🌊 from nature-based solutions (NBS) 🏞 🌳led by Marina Howarth w/ Alfonso Mejía & @drericasmithwick.bsky.social #flooding #ecosystemservices #naturebasedsolutions wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- No, the mission of the EPA should not be "to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses." ...unless we're actually achieving the triple bottom line (planet, people, & profit) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...
- We are #StandUpForScience2025
- Is this the Onion? 🤯 www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
- 🔬 🧪 🌄 #StandUpForScience2025 is tomorrow, in DC and around the US/world. I benefit from science everyday as a human, a parent, and a scientist & engineer. standupforscience2025.org
- New Supreme Court ruling on US Clean Water Act interpretation regarding wastewater treatment- apnews.com/article/supr...
- Super excited for this paper to come out, building upon findings from my first PhD pub 10 (?!) years ago. This work demonstrates that using internal water storage in stormwater basin design can help maximize nitrate removal, while also reducing biologically produced GHG emissions
- With tomorrow's impending wintry weather + a hydrology PhD defense, it's clearly time to break out these socks
- If you leverage AI in literature review, CHECK THOSE REFERENCES. I just finished reading through a proposal on a topic that I knew well, and thus was surprised to see several papers referenced that I hadn't known of. Then when I looked them up online, I found they didn't exist. 7 fake references.
- My heart aches 💔 this morning for all of the dedicated US federal workers suddenly fired yesterday. Hydrologists managing our world class stream gage network, forest service employees stewarding our extensive federal lands, and so much more. thehill.com/policy/energ...
- US Fish and Wildlife Service for the win with their wild valentines. Just another reason our federal workforce is fantastic and underappreciated. www.fws.gov/library/coll...
- Bedtime reading w my son has been a welcome retreat from the chaos of the world lately w this fantastic and gorgeously illustrated book
- Fresh snow and fresh coffee. Here we go finals (and grading) week! ❄️☕️💪
- #AGU24 check out some great undergrad WQ research including Mara Grigore at poster 757 who has mapped critical source areas as part of an NSF Intl Research Experiences for Students collab w Monash incl. @watershedduncan.bsky.social @annalintern.bsky.social
- Spot on point by Trevor Keenan at #AGU24- should we be calling nature based solutions 'solutions'? They are critical, and provide essential C uptake benefits... but the most important climate change solution is still massive decarbonization/ reduction of emissions
- Happy Wednesday #AGU24! Come learn about how de-icing salts affect vegetated stormwater treatment systems and water quality processes this afternoon at poster 324 with my recent MS grad Alex💧
- #AGU24 if you need a break from the meeting in an oasis full of gorgeous plants, get down to the US botanic garden
- #AGU24 check out the holiday market w food options and other fun things a little walk away at F St and 9th!
- #AGU24 take advantage of the metro system while you're in DC! My fun metro story is that back when I was working as a tech at USGS in NoVA after undergrad, I met my future spouse at a metro station on my usual commute. He says 'Ride public transit- you never know who you might meet' 😃
- Here at #AGU24 via EV🚗 and then metro 🚉. One talk from our group done today on solar farm hydrology, and one poster to come Wed afternoon on salty stormwater treatment.
- Just a sliver of driveway/yard slope + less than an inch of snow + all the kids on the street = pure joy 😊 ❄️
- When you're in a fluid mechanics dissertation proposal defense and you're also noticing some real time snow drifting +wind × porta potty fluid mechanics action out the conference room window... ❄️🌬💩😅
- Intrigued and frustrated by this juxtaposition- rural VA is pushing against solar farms but yet welcoming data centers. The latter has bigger, more permanent impact on removing land from ag. powerforthepeopleva.com/2024/12/04/d... #solar #EnergySky
- Happy first Monday of meteorological winter to the all season bike commuters out there😀❄️🚲
- Every field project has an end, and today is sensor uninstall day at a local solar farm. I had some curious onlookers....
