Early Career Research Fellow Track 2 (Environmental Protection and Stewardship Track) - Sylvia Dee
Implementing Organization
Rice University
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$75,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Fellowships
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Dr. Sylvia Dee is an assistant professor and climate scientist at Rice University specializing in atmospheric & climate 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 Studies at Princeton University, and her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California Earth Sciences department. She previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and Brown University. Sylvia's research projects include topics in climate modeling, risk forecasting, 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. Most recently, she has worked on ocean modeling to constrain risks to coral reef ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico and extreme rainfall along the Texas coast. 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.
Contact
Maeesha SaeedNone
msaeed@nas.edu
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