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Overview

Donald L. Phillips is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields including Environmental Science, Computer Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these domains, their work focuses on subfields such as Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The main topics addressed in their research include Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Mineralogy and Gemology Studies.

Donald L. Phillips has contributed to scholarly publications in journals like the Journal of Geochemical Exploration and Economic Geology. Recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • Solving geological mixing problems with Bayesian tracer models: A demonstration of the method applied to Carlin-type pyrite, 2022, Journal of Geochemical Exploration
  • Nanoscale Characteristics of Carlin-Type Auriferous Pyrite from the Nadaleen Trend, Yukon, 2024, Economic Geology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Elizabeth Holley, C. E. Jilly-Rehak, PJ Sack, and Phillip Gopon.

Best Publications

  • A Statistical-Topographic Model for Mapping Climatological Precipitation over Mountainous Terrain

    Christopher Daly;Ronald P. Neilson;Donald L. Phillips

  • Source partitioning using stable isotopes: coping with too many sources.

    Donald L. Phillips;Jillian W. Gregg;Jillian W. Gregg

  • A niche for isotopic ecology

    Seth D. Newsome;Carlos Martinez del Rio;Stuart Bearhop;Donald L. Phillips

  • Uncertainty in source partitioning using stable isotopes

    Donald L. Phillips;Jillian W. Gregg

  • Analyzing mixing systems using a new generation of Bayesian tracer mixing models.

    Brian C. Stock;Andrew L. Jackson;Eric J. Ward;Andrew C. Parnell

  • Best practices for use of stable isotope mixing models in food-web studies

    Donald L. Phillips;Richard Inger;Stuart Bearhop;Andrew L. Jackson

  • Bayesian stable isotope mixing models

    Andrew C. Parnell;Donald L. Phillips;Stuart Bearhop;Brice X. Semmens

  • Combining sources in stable isotope mixing models: alternative methods.

    Donald L. Phillips;Seth D. Newsome;Jillian W. Gregg

  • Chlorinated hydrocarbon levels in human serum: effects of fasting and feeding.

    DL Phillips;JL Pirkle;VW Burse;Jr Jt Bernert

  • Incorporating concentration dependence in stable isotope mixing models

    Donald L. Phillips;Paul L. Koch

  • Mixing models in analyses of diet using multiple stable isotopes: a critique

    Donald L. Phillips

  • Advancing fine root research with minirhizotrons.

    M.G. Johnson;D.T. Tingey;D.L. Phillips;M.J. Storm

  • A comparison of geostatistical procedures for spatial analysis of precipitation in mountainous terrain

    Donald L Phillips;Jayne Dolph;Danny Marks

  • Converting isotope values to diet composition: the use of mixing models

    Donald L. Phillips

  • Estimates of the half-life of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in Vietnam Veterans of Operation Ranch Hand.

    James L. Pirkle;William H. Wolfe;Donald G. Patterson;Larry L. Needham

  • Competition and spacing patterns in desert shrubs

    Donald L. Phillips;James A. MacMahon

  • Estimating the timing of diet shifts using stable isotopes

    Donald L. Phillips;Peter M. Eldridge

  • Quantitative differences among various proteins as blocking agents for ELISA microtiter plates.

    Vogt Rf;Phillips Dl;Henderson Lo;Whitfield W

  • Patch-size effects on early succession in southern Appalachian forests.

    Donald L. Phillips;Donald L. Phillips;Donald J. Shure

  • Elevated CO2 and conifer roots: effects on growth, life span and turnover

    David T. Tingey;Donald L. Phillips;Mark G. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

David T. Tingey
David T. Tingey Environmental Protection Agency
Mark H. Johnson
Mark H. Johnson University of Cambridge
Paul T. Rygiewicz
Paul T. Rygiewicz Environmental Protection Agency
Brice X. Semmens
Brice X. Semmens University of California, San Diego
Jonathan W. Moore
Jonathan W. Moore Simon Fraser University
Seth D. Newsome
Seth D. Newsome University of New Mexico
Stuart Bearhop
Stuart Bearhop University of Exeter
Richard Inger
Richard Inger University of Exeter
Paul L. Koch
Paul L. Koch University of California, Santa Cruz
Eric J. Ward
Eric J. Ward National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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