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NMO Institute

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Member since 1972
Council Member

Mike Clegg

University of California, Irvine (UCI); School of Biological Sciences ; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

92697, Irvine, CA

The National Academy of Sciences is one of the founding members of IIASA. The membership contribution for the US is supported by the National Science Foundation. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences served as NMO from 1982 until 2003.

Friends of IIASA (FoI) is a US-based non profit organisation that aims to foster and support research at and in cooperation with IIASA and the US research community and in close collaboration with the US NMO.

Main areas of collaborations:

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Advancing energy and integrated assessment modeling in the US

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Projecting changing population and human capital

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Improving the use of land for food and for combating climate change

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Increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities

Icon Evolution Biodiversity

Analyzing ecological and evolutionary dynamics

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Developing the methods of systems analysis

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News

girl in lockdown looking out of the window

05 September 2022

Lessons learned from COVID-19 mitigation measures

Due to the uncertainty of the timing of vaccine approval at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers struggled to find the best mitigation measures. In a new study, researchers analyzed how the expectation of a vaccine influences optimal lockdown measures.

Economic Frontiers (EF)

Economics of disruptive change (EDC)

United States of America

22 June 2022

Jeffrey Sachs awarded Tang Prize in Sustainable Development

IIASA Distinguished Visiting Fellow and longtime collaborator, Jeffrey Sachs, has received this year’s prestigious Tang Prize in Sustainable Development for his contributions to the establishment and promotion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

United States of America

Sunrise on a misty boreal forest

31 January 2022

Forest management increases climate benefits provided by boreal forests

The carbon stock in managed boreal forest landscapes is increasing, while it is relatively unchanged in less intensively utilized forests where carbon losses due to forest fires have instead been significant during 1990-2017, according to a new report by the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA).

Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)

Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE)

Russian Federation

United States of America

Focus

Dhobi Khana at Veli in Fort Kochi, where the Tamil-speaking Vannan community carry out laundry works, the profession practiced by the community traditionally. Hand washed clothes drying in sunlight in Cochin, India.

02 September 2022

Why one size does not fit all

Pooja Ramamurthi is a 2022 Young Summer Scientist Program (YSSP) participant. This summer, she is exploring the fascinating intersection between energy consumption, social norms and attitudes, and cultural differences.

Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS) Model for Energy Supply Strategy Alternatives and their General Environmental Impact (MESSAGEix) India United States of America

15 June 2022

Building more fire-resistant housing in California

Options Magazine, Summer 2022: California is known for sunny weather and beautiful landscapes. The dry, windy, and hot conditions that make California desirable, however, also make it vulnerable to wildfires.

Wildfires in California.

Publications

Jiang, Z., Zhu, R., Miyazaki, K., McDonald, B.C., Klimont, Z. , Zheng, B., Boersma, K.F., Zhang, Q., Worden, H., Worden, J.R., Henze, D.K., Jones, D., Denier van der Gon, H., & Eskes, H. (2022). Decadal Variabilities in Tropospheric Nitrogen Oxides Over United States, Europe, and China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127 (3) e2021JD035872. 10.1029/2021JD035872.

Funk, J., Forsell, N., Gunn, J., & Burns, D. (2022). Assessing the potential for unaccounted emissions from bioenergy and the implications for forests: The United States and global. GCB Bioenergy 14 (3) 322-345. 10.1111/gcbb.12912.

Chen, S., Prettner, K., Kuhn, M., & Bloom, D.E. (2021). The economic burden of COVID-19 in the United States: Estimates and projections under an infection-based herd immunity approach. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 20 e100328. 10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100328.

Sánchez-Romero, M., di Lego, V., Prskawetz, A., & L. Queiroz, B. (2021). An indirect method to monitor the fraction of people ever infected with COVID-19: An application to the United States. PLoS ONE 16 (1) e0245845. 10.1371/journal.pone.0245845.

McDonnell, T.C., Reinds, G.J., Wamelink, G.W.W., Goedhart, P.W., Posch, M. , Sullivan, T.J., & Clark, C.M. (2020). Threshold effects of air pollution and climate change on understory plant communities at forested sites in the eastern United States. Environmental Pollution 262 e114351. 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114351.

Gumidyala, S., Ruess, P.J., Konar, M., Marston, L., Dalin, C., & Wada, Y. (2020). Groundwater Depletion Embedded in Domestic Transfers and International Exports of the United States. Water Resources Research 56 (2) 10.1029/2019WR024986.