Entries by Linda Welzenbach

Sylvia Dee wins fellowship to launch Gulf of Mexico study

October 4, 2021 /0 Comments/in /by

MIKE WILLIAMS – SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 National Academies back ‘bold’ research projects by early-career scientists Sylvia Dee, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University, has won one of eight national early-career fellowships to pursue research that relates to the changing ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico. Sylvia Dee Dee was selected […]

Nature’s archive reveals Atlantic tempests through time

September 7, 2021 /0 Comments/in /by

MIKE WILLIAMS – SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 Paleo storm hunters at Rice need data to refine the record of history’s hurricanes Atlantic hurricanes don’t just come and go. They leave clues to their passage through the landscape that last centuries or more. Rice University scientists are using these natural archives to find signs of storms hundreds of […]

Sylvia Dee highlights the accomplishments of 19th Century scientist Eunice Foote

July 30, 2021 /0 Comments/in /by

Sylvia Dee, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, authored an article about the work of American scientist  Eunice Foote, who published a paper that documented the underlying cause of today’s climate change crisis. (This article originally appeared in The Conversation and was included in a previous edition of Dateline. It has also appeared […]

Seismic study will help keep carbon underground

June 22, 2021 /0 Comments/in /by

MIKE WILLIAMS – JUNE 17, 2021 Department of Energy grant backs development of Jonathan Ajo-Franklin’s fiber-optic monitors Rice University geoscientists and their colleagues will develop sophisticated fiber-optic sensors and seismic sources to find and evaluate small faults deep underground at sites that store carbon dioxide (CO2) to keep it out of the atmosphere. The Department of Energy has […]