Dr. Sylvia Dee, an Associate Professor at Rice University, is a climate scientist specializing in changes in the hydrological cycle in the past, present, and future. Her research focuses on how Earth’s modes of natural variability, like El Niño and La Niña events, compound with climate change to alter the characteristics of weather and climate extremes. Sylvia specializes in using water isotope physics and proxy system models to combine and compare paleoclimate and climate model information.