Nathan Phillips

Faculty Associate
Professor, Earth and Environment, Boston University
nathan@bu.edu
617-353-2841


Education

BA, California State University; PhD, Duke University


Expertise

Global Change Biology, Urban Physiology, Sustainability


Nathan Phillips HeadshotBiography

Nathan Phillips is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University. His research focuses on physiological mechanisms that regulate water, carbon, and energy exchanges between plants/ecosystems and the environment, especially in the context of environmental change.  More recently, this research has been translated to studies of the ecology “in cities”, and the ecology “of cities”, in an interdisciplinary research program called “Urban Metabolism” supported by the National Science Foundation and Boston University’s Sustainable Neighborhood Laboratory.