WeatherZine #24


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Aquila Energy, a global leader in weather derivatives and energy, is pleased to announce the launch of the world's first online weather risk management portal, guaranteedweather.com. Through this web site, businesses with weather-sensitive risk can learn about weather risk in their industry, quantify it, and purchase financial derivatives to help manage it.

Aquila Energy is also offering academics and professionals the opportunity to publish weather risk management-related studies on the site in exchange for worldwide exposure, full authorship credit, a small gift, and the chance to win a cash prize. Papers and studies are sought in the following areas: uses of weather derivatives, examples of how derivatives have been used to address a business's weather risk, pricing methodologies, climate events, and seasonal forecast methodologies.

For more information, visit www.guaranteedweather.com or email Ravi Nathan at rnathan@utilicorp.com.

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Free publication downloads from Disaster Research Center

The Disaster Research Center (DRC) of the University of Delaware announces that effectively immediately all its publications – not copyrighted by others – will be available for free downloading from its web site (www.udel.edu/DRC/). This applies to all new publications. DRC publications from 1985- on will be online by the end of the year 2000. The DRC will attempt to put all its earlier publications from 1963 to 1984 online during 2001. Paper copies will still be available by mail for those without Internet access. Anyone with questions about this new DRC policy should contact Susan Castelli, DRC Library Coordinator at castelli@udel.edu.

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