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. Na Wang is a postdoctoral scholar at Rice. Her research interests include
large-scale atmospheric circulation, climate dynamics, and paleoclimate
modeling. She is currently working on a project about changes in the
relationship between ENSO and Asian monsoon over the last 2000 years. Na
obtained a B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences at Nanjing University in 2015 and a
Ph.D. in Meteorology at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences in 2020.
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.