Brenda Kelly

AER has received a highly coveted Supplier Excellence Award from Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Information Systems (NGIS) sector for technical innovation and quality products and services. AER was recognized for its work on the System Engineering Maintenance and Sustainment (SEMS) II program at the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency, the largest supplier of terrestrial and space weather data for military users worldwide.

AER will be awarded with the Business Achievement Award in the in low carbon and renewable power category at the 2012 Environmental Business Journal awards March 6-8, 2013.

Kyle Beatty joins 3 hurricane impact experts from Verisk Analytics in a special session at the Extreme Weather Insurance Risk Management Congress (EWRM) today in NYC “Superstorm Sandy Post Event Assessment: Assessing The Optimal Decision Making Tools For Managing Catastrophic Weather Events: Addressing Weather Prediction, Modeling Challenges, Claims Analysis And Impact Estimates.”

Joy Rohde, Director of Market Strategy at AER, presents "Solar Storms: Protecting Against the Sun's 'Dark Side'" at The MEARIE Conference 2012 in Minett, Ontario at 8:35am on Wednesday, June 27th. The MEARIE Group is the only Canadian insurance supplier dedicated to the electricity distribution sector.

Scientific publisher IOP Publishing just congratulated AER that our research is the 2nd most downloaded article this year from IOP Journal! ‘Arctic warming, increasing snow cover and widespread boreal cooling’ by AER authors Dr. Judah Cohen, Dr. Jason Furtado and others, was published in January 2012, and in just 4 weeks is the second most downloaded paper from IOP Journal with 3,400 downloads plus media stories in 12 countries.

Telvent GIT, S.A., announced today that it has formed a strategic alliance with Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) to provide the industry’s most advanced solar forecasts to generators and distributors of solar power. Telvent’s highly accurate solar irradiance forecasts — powered by AER™ Solance™ technology — incorporate cloud cover forecasts based on real-time satellite imagery, providing utilities with critical insights into fluctuations in supply.

AER adds capacity to help utilities and their solar and wind O&M service providers improve forecasts of renewable energy production and demand. Scott McClintock joins as director of relationship management serving utilities and renewable energy companies.

Andy Revkin highlights AER's winter season forecast skill plus the research behind the prediction in the post "The Far North and Wintry Weather" on his DotEarth blog for the New York Times today.

Insurers investigating questionable hail claims will learn insights from State Farm and AER on March 21, at the Insurance Fraud Management Conference. New weather analytics technology combined with policy locations provide faster, more accurate assessments of whether a hail storm damage claim should be approved or requires additional investigation.

AER and two of the largest reinsurance firms, Willis and Zurich Financial Services, outlined opportunities in managing weather and climate risk for 200 insurance executives. In the current environment of increasingly volatile weather, property & casualty insurers are adopting the latest climate risk management approaches to improve financial performance – for their own and their clients’ businesses.