--Articles and special issues on System Dynamics were published in over 25 journals or websites.

Academy of Management Discoveries
Advances in Economics and Business
American Journal of Epidemiology
Bloomberg Markets Magazine
BMC Geriatrics
EPA Science Inventory
European Journal of Operational Research
Group Decision and Negotiation
Health Affairs
International Journal for Equality in Health
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Jacobs Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of Transportation
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
Obesity Reviews
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Resources
Risk Analysis
SAGE Open Medicine
Systems Research and Behavioral Science
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
The Accounting Review
Transport Policy
Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics
The New York Times
Utility Dive

--Rodney Scott received the ANZAM Award for best doctoral dissertation.
--Chris Spencer was awarded the 2016 Geoff Coyle Medal at the UK System Dynamics Chapter Annual Conference.
--Oluwasegun Aluko received the 2016 Student Prize at the UK System Dynamics Chapter Annual Conference.
--John Sterman was awarded the 2016 Samuel E. Seegal Faculty Prize.
--Navid Ghaffarzadegan received Virginia Tech’s 2016 College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence.
--Dynaplan received People Analytics Award of Business Supercharger.
--2016 Delft ISDC Awards:
· Shayne Gary and Robert Wood were presented with the Jay Wright Forrester Award.
· Yaman Barlas received the System Dynamics Society Outstanding Service Award.
· Bramka Arga Jafino and Pedram Soltani won the Lupina Young Researchers Award.
· Jeffery Walters was presented the Barry Richmond Scholarship Award.
· Joona Tuovinen, Andrea Navarrete, Camilo Olaya, and Juliana Gomez-Quintero were the winners of the Best Poster Award.
--Andreas Größler was appointed as Full Professor of Operations Management at Stuttgart University.
--Rogelio Oliva was appointed as Full Professor of Information and Operations Management at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University.
--Jeroen Struben was appointed Assistant Professor at EM Lyon Business School in Lyon, France.
--David Keith was appointed to the Mitsui Career Development Professorship at MIT Sloan.
--Etiënne Rouwette was appointed Chair, Research and Intervention Methodology, at Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University.
--Jac Vennix gave a valedictory lecture at Radboud University and became Professor Emeritus.
--Stefan Groesser was appointed as Visiting Professor at Heilbronn University Graduate School.
--Sibel Eker was appointed as Research Associate at University College London.
--Özge Karanfil received the Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and was appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Global Health and Population Department.
--New PhD’s:
· Chris Browne, the Research School of Engineering, Australian National University.
· Vincent de Gooyert, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University.
· Diana M. Fisher, System Science PhD Program at Portland State University.
--J. Chris White was named the President of pmBLOX, Inc.
--Corey Lofdahl took a new position as Principal Engineer at System of System Analysis Corporation.
--Ali Masoudi took a new position as Environmental Specialist at the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development.
--Tasso Perdicoulis curated Systems Planning with the help of scholars from various fields of knowledge.

PROMOTION OF SYSTEM DYNAMICS IN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS:

--The System Dynamics Group of the University of Palermo offered a Spring School and an International Symposium on “Outcome-Based” Dynamic Performance Management in the Public Sector.
--MIT held NESCI Summer School as a basis for pursuing complex systems research.
--NASPAA conducted the Annual Student Simulation Competition in Washington, DC.
--CC Modeling Systems offered summer online modeling courses for math and science teachers who would like to incorporate System Dynamics modeling in their curriculum.
--NATCOR held a System Dynamics Seminar for PhD students in the UK.
--The Society for Organizational Learning held the workshop “Leading Sustainable Transformation.”
--University of Witwatersrand in South Africa offered free online System Dynamics courses.
--The 32nd and 33rd System Dynamics Colloquiums were hosted respectively by Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s System Dynamics Club (WPI SD Club) and the University at Albany.
--The University at Albany School of Business hosted weekly SD movie nights featuring Forrester’s Seminar Series on System Dynamics.
--The University of Bergen in Norway
· collaborated with the Ukrainian institutions, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and the Ivan Franko Lviv National University, on the project “Extend the Learning of Economics with Dynamic Modeling.”
· partnered with colleagues at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences to train students in each of the university’s areas of expertise.
--The Creative Learning Exchange
· hosted the Systems Thinking & Dynamic Modeling Conference for K-12 Education.
· developed four new apps that feature simple System Dynamics models in collaboration with the Center for Interdisciplinary Excellence in System Dynamics and BTN.
· created a survey to collect information about what ST/SD tools practitioners and educators use, how they assess the effectiveness of student learning, and the impact ST/SD has had on students’ learning.
--Benjamin Chang-Kwon Chung successfully brought System Dynamics into the K-12 program in South Korea.
--The Waters Foundation began selling a new Android app “Habits of a Systems Thinker.”
--The 2nd annual Changing Systems Student Summit brought together dozens of high school students from St. Louis and surrounding communities to discuss how System Dynamics can be used to change the cycle of gun violence.
--The “Walking with the Sun” project promoted an educative innovation from a system thinking perspective and an indigenous worldview.
--National University of Singapore’s Temasek Defense Systems Institute’s Graduate Seminar in Defense Technology and Systems featured a public lecture by John Richardson.
--The Innovations in Collaborative Modeling Conference featured speakers Gary Hirsch and Krys Stave.
--At the EAIR (The European Higher Education Society) Forum, Kim Warren recorded a video “Workshop: Modeling University Strategy and Performance with System Dynamics.”
--Millennium Institute announced the launch of the Integrated Sustainable Development Goals Planning Model (iSDG).
--The Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) hosted its annual conference in Washington, DC. Speakers, panelists and presenters challenged assumptions on how the behavioral sciences can be applied across multiple contexts.
--AnyLogic’s Andrei Borshchev, along with many simulation modeling professionals, led seminars in Tel Aviv.
--Strategy Dynamics announces the release of two video-based guides to the Sysdea System Dynamics online software. --isee systems announced the release of Stella Simulator.
-- Ventana Inc. released a new version of software, Vensim 6.4E. Ventana’s support forum for Vensim was a huge success, answering over 2, 000 queries and gave access to the archive of SD mailing list.
--Cooper Human System’s Discovery2, which predicts the human efficacy of drug combinations and protocols aimed at curing complex diseases related to the human immune system, became commercially available.
--Jay W. Forrester and his career is featured in the exhibit “Four Centuries on Innovation” at Logan International Airport in Boston.

CHAPTER AND SIG MAJOR EVENTS:

--Australasian Chapter met to discuss hosting the next Asia Pacific Region Conference in Queensland.
--German Chapter (DGSD) held their annual meeting at Stuttgart University and celebrated the 10th anniversary.
--Iran Chapter celebrated its one year anniversary.
--Italian Chapter (SYDIC) hosted the International Workshop on Computational Economics and Econometrics.
--Latin American Chapter hosted XIV CLADS in Brazil.
--South African Chapter (SASD) hosted their 4th Annual System Dynamics Conference.
--UK Chapter hosted its 18th Annual System Dynamics Conference.
--Business SIG hosted Dynamic Business Models webinar with speaker Kim Warren.
--Psychology SIG changed their name to the Psychology and Human Behavior SIG.
--New Special Interest Groups
· Agriculture and Food SIG
· Asset Dynamics SIG
· Transportation SIG

BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2016:

Development Planning and Policy Design: A System Dynamics Approach by Khalid Saeed
Dynamic Estimation Model: the gap between needs and availability of health services through 2020 by Jim Thompson
Dynamic Performance Management by Carmine Bianchi
Dynamic Systems for Everyone: Understanding How Our World Works by Asish Ghosh
Healthy Bytes by Tarek K. A. Hamid
Limits Revisited, a Review of the Limits to Growth Debate by Tim Jackson and Robin Webster
Principles of Systems, reprinted edition, by Jay W. Forrester
System Dynamics Modeling with R by Jim Duggan
The Dynamic Progress Method: Using Advanced Simulation to Improve Project Planning and Management by J. Chris White and Robert M. Sholtes
The Handbook of Sustainability Assessment, a chapter of which was written by Bill Grace and Jenny Pope
The Physics of Stocks and Flows of Energy Systems: Application in Energy Policy by Hassan Qudrat-Ullah
Towards Sustainable Development 3rd Edition: Essays on System Analysis of National Policy by Khalid Saeed

A SAMPLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN OUR NEWS:

--The paper “A System Dynamics Model for Integrated Decision Making: The Durham-Orange Light Rail Project” was published online at the EPA Science Inventory.
--The article “Retooling regulation: Clean air and clean energy demands an integrated oversight regime” was published online at Utility Dive.
--Public Radio International invited John Sterman to consider whether big oil companies are really on board for addressing climate change.
--Tasmania’s wildfires affected World Heritage Area (WHA); experts warn such incidents are signs of a changing climate.
--A World Climate Simulation exercise was held at the University at Albany in November.
--At the Delft Conference, the IBM Academy of Technology hosted a Climate Change Hackathon to model the impact of climate changes on vulnerable populations over time.
--The Dynamics of Climate Change—from the Political to the Personal webinar was presented by John Sterman.
--Climate Interactive
· released anaylsis throughout the year on their website and other articles; the new analysis/full report on the 2050 climate goals is posted on the Climate Interactive website.
· attended the UN Climate Conference in Morocco to discuss issues concerning the Paris agreement. Through the use of models and educational tools, they are helping political leaders, policymakers and the public to see the urgency of emissions cuts, how plans that move past the Paris agreement make an impact and potential problems.
· presented webinars to introduce the World Climate Simulation exercise.
· presented their work (and the work of MIT, Union of Concerned Scientists, Climate Central, and the Carbon Tracker) at the United Nations Headquarters as the Paris Climate Agreement came into legal force in November.
· Provided data and analysis for the digital story, “How Trump Can Influence Climate Change,” published on The New York Times website.

IN MEMORIAM

-- Qifan Wang, May 31, 2016: Qifan played an influential role in the field of System Dynamics in China and had a long history of service to the System Dynamics Society.
-- Jay W. Forrester, November 16, 2016: Jay founded what became the field of System Dynamics and had a profound and lasting influence on it throughout its 60-year history. Members of our community sent countless email messages and posts to the System Dynamics Society. These illustrate the consummate importance Jay had in the field of System Dynamics and the mark he has left on the lives of so many.