Phillip is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Rosemond lab and the Wenger lab in the River Basin Center here in the Odum School of Ecology. Phillip is a broadly trained aquatic ecologist with interests in ecosytem ecology, foodweb and community ecology, and conservation ecology. Phillip’s research primarily focuses on three themes: 1) Quantifying how environmental variability (such as that caused by global change) shapes ecosystem structure and function, 2) exploring feedbacks between biotic and abiotic interactions, and 3) applying concepts from ecosystem ecology and life-history traits to the conseravation of freshwater organisms. Phillip approaches these themes across ecological scales, from individual populations to ecosystem functions such as organic matter breakdown. Much of Phillip’s on-going work focuses on leveraging and mantianing long-term observational studies in the Upper Coosa River system in northern Georgia, a biodiversity hotspot for freshwater fish and mussels. Additionally, Phillip continues working on the effects of nutrient pollution in forest stream ecosystems. Phillip received his MS in Ecology working with Dr. Rosemond before completing his PhD working with Dr. Rosemond and Dr. Wenger here in the Odum School.