Nathan Phillips

Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

Nathan Phillips is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University. He is a physiological ecologist who studies land-climate interactions in terrestrial ecosystems and human-dominated environments, including exchanges of energy, water, and greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide exchanged between the air and leaves, soil, buildings, humans, and pipelines. He works with advocates, community members and policymakers to apply my research to advance sustainable communities and a habitable planet.