地表，环境和能源哲学博士-低温和环境地球化学

低温地球化学过程控制着近地表地球过程，包括矿物沉淀，溶解和蚀变以及环境中的化学转移。赖斯的低温研究领域包括成岩作用，化学风化作用，化学海洋学和土壤地球化学。现代分析化学的工具（核磁共振，质谱，同位素地球化学）用于了解地球的碳循环，并研究储层之间碳运动的机理和时间尺度。其他实验室设施与高温地球化学研究共享。
There is now long-established global scientific consensus that climate change will damage human and natural systems with lasting impacts. Earth is already responding more quickly than predicted to rapidly shifting, pervasive radiative forcing, and our future depends on our ability to adapt to and mitigate this response. Climate change-induced disruptions to human-environment interactions occur via impacts such as sea level rise, storm surge, tropical cyclones, and degradation of ecosystems and resources. Many of these impacts threaten energy infrastructure and electricity production in the Gulf Coast of the United States. Houston represents a geopolitically-relevant model city to better understand the impacts of climate change in low-lying coastal zones in the subtropics, where, globally, the highest development rates are occurring.<br><br>Research in this area spans forecasting climate change-related stressors on human systems (e.g. flooding impacts to infrastructure, drought impacts to agriculture) and geoengineering, as well as using past changes in human-environment interactions to contextualize the rates, amplitudes, and consequences of current and future climate change.