Originally published in our February 2023 newsletter (Issue 19) Cypress is a senior software engineer in the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. He helps build communication tools to communicate risks of climate change to stakeholders and policymakers. I am a software engineer working with…

Originally published in our December 2022 newsletter (Issue 18) David McCollum co-chairs the newly launched ‘Connecting MSD Research to Operations’ (MSD-R2O2R) Working Group within the MultiSector Dynamics Community of Practice. It is a fitting role, given the many years David has spent at the nexus between science and society. He…

Originally published in our October 2022 newsletter (Issue 17) Dr. Hadjimichael uses MSD methods to investigate how water allocation might interact with and be affected by hydroclimatic, social, infrastructural, and institutional changes in the Upper Colorado River Basin within the state of Colorado. In the Integrated Multisector Multiscale Modeling (IM3)…

Originally published in our August 2022 newsletter (Issue 16) As a software engineer in the MSD community, Travis focuses on enabling efficient, scalable, and reproducible modeling workflows for a broad range of research teams and experiments. This can range from writing highly parallelizable code for pre- and post-processing large unwieldly…

Originally published in our June 2022 newsletter (Issue 15) Yasmin’s PCHES-sponsored work how urban populations adapt to increasing temperatures exposures, the associated energy demand consequences of such adaptation, and how such adaptation moderates heat-related health outcomes. Yasmin Romitti is a PhD candidate working with Professor Ian Sue Wing in the…

Originally published in our April 2022 newsletter (Issue 14) In his ICoM- sponsored work, Sanjib collaborates with Earth scientists, engineers, social scientists, and decision makers to design new risk management strategies that have potential to enable infrastructure robustness against deep uncertainties. Sanjib Sharma is an assistant research professor in the…

Originally published in our February 2022 newsletter (Issue 13) Nicole’s IM3-sponsored work contributes to the broader MSD community by demonstrating how potential climate impacts to critical infrastructure such as water resources can be affected by choice of modeling tool. Nicole D. Jackson is a systems analysis researcher in the Energy…

Originally published in our December 2021 newsletter (Issue 12)   Prof. Karen Fisher-Vanden has been recently elected as the President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) where she previously served on the Board of Directors. In this article we highlight Prof. Fisher-Vanden’s career and contributions to the…

Originally published in our October 2021 newsletter (Issue 10)   Jordan’s group is making progress on a key MSD challenge, using higher spatio-temporal and sectoral resolutions to consider how conditions, processes, and dynamics at local scales influence the interactions and failure modes of systems and sectors at higher levels of…