Environmental Fellows

Progress Energy Graduate Fellows

Sanya Carley
Sanya Carley's primary research interests include the sustainability of the electricity sector, the effectiveness of energy policy incentives and regulatory efforts to alter states' electricity generation portfolios, and the use of distributed generation and micro-grid electricity systems to compliment traditional macro-operations. Before starting a Ph.D. program in Public Policy at UNC-CH, Ms. Carley was a graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the departments of Urban and Regional Planning and the Nelson Institute for the Environment. She holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Sustainable Development from Swarthmore College and has work experience from her time at the World Bank, the Wisconsin Public Utility Institute, and Community Energy, Inc.
Tyler Felgenhauer
Tyler Felgenhauer received his MPA in International affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and his BA in Government from Cornell University. He has interests in strategic decision making and risk analysis under uncertainty, international environmental and energy policy, and the analysis of both climate change mitigation and adaptation policies as risk management strategies. In 2007, Mr. Felgenhauer was a Young Summer Scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), outside of Vienna, Austria. Prior to coming to UNC, he worked with the San Francisco NGO Pacific Environment, promoting local initiatives for sustainable development in the Russian Far East and Bering Sea region. He also served for three years with the Liechtenstein Institute on Self Determination at Princeton University, focussing on several conflict resolution, minority rights, and political initiatives for Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir, and Kosovo. He has additional international experience working in Russia with Moscow News and the Baltic News Service, in Azerbaijan with the National Democratic Institute, in Thailand with the U.S. Embassy, and in Japan with the Tokyo Foundation. Tyler is a Progress Energy Research Fellow with the Carolina Institute for the Environment, and he has also been awarded the Graduate School Society of Fellows Royster Fellowship.
Ying Li
Ying Li is a PhD candidate of Department of Public Policy working with Dr. Doug Crawford-Brown. Before coming to UNC in August 2002, she received her BS and MS degrees in environmental sciences from Peking University, China. Her main research focuses primarily on health risk assessment and policy analysis in the field of air pollution control, both in developed and in developing countries. Her dissertation is titled, "Health Benefits of Traffic-Related Particulate Matter Control Policies: the Case of Bangkok, Thailand." Besides her dissertation, currently she is also working through the Institute for the Environment on the community carbon reduction program of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. She was awarded he UNC Society of Fellows William Neal Reynolds Fellowship during 2002-2007, Doctoral Travel Award from UNC Global Center for Global Initiatives to travel to Bangkok to collect data for her dissertation in 2005, and currently she is a Progress Energy fellow. Most recently, her paper "A Stratified Meta-Analysis of Source-Specific Particulate Matter and Its Health Effects" was selected as a winner of the student merit award for the Dose Response Specialty Group of Society for Risk Analysis.
Heeku Sohn
Heekyu Sohn is a PhD student of Department of Public Policy, working on diffusion of renewable energy technologies to combat climate change in a cost-effective way. In particular, she is interested in how renewable energy policies affect both the electricity and technology markets. During summer 2007, she participated in the Young Summer Scholar Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria, and she conducted research on the importance and value of renewable energy technologies as a climate change mitigation option. She received both her B.S. and Master of Science degrees in Engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea. She also has a Master of Public Policy degree from Duke University.

Carolina Energy Fellows

B.J. Anderson
Robert "B.J." Anderson is currently working with Drs. Yue Wu and Alfred Kleinhammes of the Department of Physics & Astronomy on hydrogen storage. In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Carbon-based Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence, Mr. Anderson employs Nuclear Magnetic Resonance techniques to identify and characterize carbon-based materials which could potentially be used in the fuel storage systems of hydrogen-powered cars. Originally from the small southwestern Kansas hamlet of Rolla, he attended Kansas State University, eventually earning a bachelor's degree in physics in December of 2003.
Meredith Hampton
Meredith Hampton attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio for her undergraduate studies. She graduated in 2005 with a B.S. in chemistry and then came to the University of North Carolina to work on her PhD in inorganic chemistry. Currently, Meredith is a joint student in the DeSimone and Templeton groups in the department of Chemistry and is working on the fabrication of hybrid inorganic/organic solar cells using the PRINT method developed in the DeSimone lab.
Doo Hyun K
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Institute for the Environment Fellows

Ting Wang
Ting Wang is a MS candidate in the Department of Geological Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is currently working with Dr. Donna Surge on the abrupt climate changes during the Late Holocene and their impacts on the human civilization at southwest Florida. She earned her BS of Environmental Science degree at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2006. At the USTC, her research focused on the adsorption ability of the natural clay mineral Palygorskite and its application in absorbing organic pollutants and heavy metal ions in polluted water.
Matt Woody
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Joel Sholtes
Joel is pursuing a master's degree with Martin Doyle, PhD studying hydrology and fluvial geomorphology and its applications in river restoration in North Carolina. His research will use field data and hydraulic modeling to consider how streams restored using natural channel design convey flood pulses. This work will explore how effective stream restoration projects -as they are constructed in North Carolina- can be in attenuating floods, which is one of the benefits tauted by advocates of stream restoration. He is also interested studying how mitigation of stream impacts in North Carolina under the Clean Water Act is changing this state's hydrological landscape. He earned his bachelor's of science in environmental science at Duke University in 2004 and has since worked in environmental consulting in New York's Hudson Valley, on water policy issues for a not-for-profit organization in Southwest Florida, and most recently at the City of Durham's Department of Water Management, where he worked on water supply and conservation issues.