© William Perry | Dreamstime.com
United States of America
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:
Advancing energy and integrated assessment modeling in the US
Projecting changing population and human capital
Improving the use of land for food and for combating climate change
Increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities
Analyzing ecological and evolutionary dynamics
Developing the methods of systems analysis
© IIASA
IIASA Connect
Are you a member of our USA regional community? IIASA Connect is our exclusive platform bringing this network together. Join today!
News
24 January 2023
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected immigration?
New research finds a high variation between how pandemic mitigation measures affected immigration to different destination countries, from a slight increase to huge reductions.
13 January 2023
Health insurance as a fuel for medical progress
A new study argues that expanding health insurance coverage can drive medical progress, support wellbeing, and even extend lifespan in the United States.
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.
Focus
20 January 2023
Understanding the link between biodiversity and land-use management
Meet Cindy Azuero-Pedraza, a participant in the 2022 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program. Learn about her forestry research in the Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, where she worked with the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group to incorporate biodiversity data into forest management decisions.
04 December 2022
Celebrating 50 years of global collaboration
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: IIASA organized a series of celebratory activities with its member organizations throughout 2022 to celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking systems analysis research and opportunities to strengthen partnerships and collaborations with the global scientific community.
15 September 2022
Meet the 2022 YSSP scholarship recipients
Each year, select Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participants win a scholarship to support their travel and research. In 2022, IIASA welcomed Swaptik Chowdhury, the recipient of the Roger Levien Fellowship, and Chayasmita Deka, who received the Professor Jyoti and Professor Kirit Parikh Fellowship.
Publications
Wu, G.C., Baker, J.S., Wade, C.M., McCord, G.C., Fargione, J.E., & Havlik, P. (2022). Contributions of healthier diets and agricultural productivity toward sustainability and climate goals in the United States. Sustainability Science 18 (1) 539-556. 10.1007/s11625-022-01232-w.
Yangji, G. (2022). Future scenario of residential hourly cooling energy demand in the United States. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
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.