Carly Phillips is a Fellow with the Western States Climate team, part of the UCS Climate & Energy Program. Her research interests include the consequences of wildfires in a changing climate and natural climate solutions. She brings expertise in ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, and carbon cycling.
Carly previously worked as a Kendall Fellow at UCS and a postdoctoral researcher at Woodwell Climate Research Center (formerly Woods Hole Research Center). She earned a PhD in ecology from the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology and a BA in biology from Occidental College. Carly currently works a researcher at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
Podcast
Baked Alaska: Fighting Forest Fires on the Last Frontier
Dr. Carly Phillips explains how climate change is turning Alaska into a tinderbox, and what to do about it.