2006 Interns
Jordan Carroll-Larson, I am a fourth generation Montanan. My great grandfathers were Butte miners, and my grandfathers and grandmothers were Anaconda smelter workers and ranchers. My kindhearted parents live together in Missoula. Among my siblings, I am the youngest and only remaining resident. In 2004, I received my BS in Economics from the University of Montana. At the moment, I am about to finish my Master's in Environmental Economics at Utah State University. My main research thrusts include a variety of sub-disciplines such as ecological economics and sustainable development. I am 24 years of age and enjoy almost anything active and outdoors. Cooking is my creative outlet at home. I have a preference for vegan and vegetarian food because I strongly believe it tastes better. I love to play basketball, learn things about life from my black lab, sit at coffee shops, and philosophize about the cosmos. Finally, it is my greatest desire to continue pursuing both an academic and professional track in natural resource and environmental economics.
Internship: NRDC's San Francisco Ocean Initiative Program
Chunbo Ma is a PhD candidate of Ecological Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Chunbo was born and grew up in Tianjin and studied Physics for one year before ompleting a BA in Economics at Nankai University, after which he completed a master program – Environmental Economics, Values and Policy (EEVP) - at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Science and Technology Studies. He has served as a teaching and research assistant during his graduate studies. Two cooperative research papers of bibliometric analysis of ecological economics and environmental economics have been published in Ecological Economics. He also provided referee services for The Energy Journal, Ecological Economics, and Empirical Economics. His research currently focuses on China's energy intensity and carbon-sulfur emissions. The work is supported by Chauncey Starr Graduate Fellowship. Chunbo's academic advisor is Professor David I. Stern, and his thesis committee also includes Professor John Gowdy, Faye Duchin and David Hess.
Internship: International Rivers Network
Matthew Riddle is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on models of energy scarcity, the dynamics of adjustments to hig energy prices, and policy approaches to reducing fossil fuel consumption while improving income distribution. He has a BA in math from Carleton College in Minnesota, and hopes to use his analytical skills in research that will address pressing social and environmental concerns. For his E3 Network internship this summer he will be working with Mass Climate Action Network to promote a strong and equitable agreement to cut power plant emissions in the northeast under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. This should be an excellent opportunity to use his research to influence environmental policies by working with an organization that is directly engaged in policy debates in this crucial field.
Internship: Massachusetts Climate Action Network
- The Impact of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on Industrial, Commercial and Residential Electricity Bills
- Electricity Price Elasticities used as Energy Model Inputs, or taken from Model Simulations
- A Review of the Literature on the Price Elasticity of Demand for Electricity
Ran Zhang, She is second year PhD student, majoring in ecological economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. Prior to joining RPI, she got her Master degree in economics from University of Toulouse 1 in France and her Bachelor degree in China. She loves economics armed with the strong analytical power provided by mathematics. Her research interests lie in the area of energy and environmental economics. She is currently working on explicitly modeling energy in growth and using simulation to test the theory. She interned in the Bureau of Community Development of Vouglaisien County in Midi-Pyrenees, France in 2004 and held the responsibility of analyzing data and writing the report of Local Development Project. She also taught review classes for Macroeconomics in 2005–2006.
Internship: NRDC's DC Green Nanotech
- Preliminary Cost of Compliance Analysis for the Regulation of Products that contain Nanomaterials - NRDC Health and Environment Program
