Carly Phillips is a scientist with the Science Hub for Climate Litigation at the Concerned Scientists. In her role, she provides scientific support to legal teams, conducts research, and trains scientists to work at the nexus of science and law.
Dr. Phillips is an ecosystem scientist with research expertise in wildfire and climate change, biogeochemistry, and attribution science. Her research has been featured in ABC News, The Hill, Nature, and the Washington Post, and her writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, Scientific American, and Science magazine.
Dr. Phillips has been also quoted in CNN, the Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, among others, and she has appeared on the BBC, CBC, and before the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights.
She holds a PhD in ecology from the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology, and a BA in biology from Occidental College.
Selected publications
Kristina A Dahl, John T Abatzoglou, Carly A Phillips, J Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Rachel Licker, L Delta Merner and Brenda Ekwurzel. Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests. IOPscience
Phillips, C.A., Astrid Caldas, Rachel Cleetus, Kristina A. Dahl, Juan Declet-Barreto, Rachel Licker, L. Delta Merner, J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Alexandra L. Phelan, Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Shuchi Talati, Christopher H. Trisos, and Colin J. Carlson. 2020. Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0804-2
Carly A. Phillips, Brendan M. Rogers, Molly Elder, Sol Cooperdock, Michael Moubarak, James T. Randerson, and Peter C. Frumhoff. Escalating carbon emissions from North American boreal forest wildfires and the climate mitigation potential of fire management. Science Advances
