Sylvia Dee is an assistant professor and climate scientist at Rice University specializing in atmospheric modeling, water isotope physics, and paleoclimate data-model comparison. She completed her undergraduate degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering with certificates in Geological Engineering and Environmental Sciences at Princeton University, and her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California Earth Sciences department. She previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the UT Institute for Geophysics and Brown University.
Sylvia's research projects include topics in climate modeling and climate of the past millennium, using general circulation models (GCMs) and proxy system models (PSMs) to explore the dynamics of the tropical climate system.
Sylvia is the developer of the water isotope-enabled, fast-physics atmospheric dynamical model, SPEEDY-IER, and a public platform for proxy system modeling development, PRYSM. This modeling platform allows for multi-centennial simulations of common era climate with water isotope physics, which, coupled with proxy system models for proxy records, facilitates the comparison of model output to paleoclimate data.
Dr. Chris Hancock is a postdoctoral scholar at Rice. He completed his Ph.D. at Northern Arizona University working with Dr. Nick McKay. His research interests include using paleoclimate data-model comparison and ensemble climate simulations for the U.S. to understand hydroclimate changes at various timescales.
Dr. Isabelle Bunge is a postdoctoral scholar at Rice. Her research interests include
climate change and human health. She completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University.
https://isabellebunge.owlstown.net/
Dr. Michelle Frazer is a postdoctoral researcher in the Climate and Water Lab. She completed her Ph.D. in the AOS program at Princeton University. She is evaluating the performance of GCMs using water isotope tracers and is developing our understanding of cloud feedbacks in a changing climate with satellite and climate model data.
Charlie Marshall is a fifth-year Ph.D. student at Rice working in the Climate Lab. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Math. He is interested in climate modeling and climate dynamics. He is currently working on a project that compares different proxies and models of tropical African climate since the Last Glacial Maximum.
Kelsey Murphy is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Rice working in the Climate Lab. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a Boston native. Her research explores the evolution of the Mississippi River basin's large-scale hydrology over time.
Jiayue Yin is a first-year Ph.D. student at Rice, working in the Climate Lab. She graduated from Nanjing University with a Master's degree in Atmosphere Science. She is currently working on a project using water isotope-enabled climate models to evaluate U.S. climate change in the past, present, and future.
Hannah Kim is a first-year Ph.D. student at Rice, working in the Climate Lab. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Sustainability and Economics. Her most recent research project was on agriculture irrigation analysis utilizing reclaimed water at the Argonne National Laboratory. She is very excited to start her new studies at Rice!