The Science of Shark Oil Barometers

BIOS intern Shane Antonition sits next to a traditional shark oil barometer

This summer, BIOS scientist Mark Guishard and college intern Shane Antonition (pictured above) paired up to begin looking at the mysterious little bottles through a scientific lens to find out just how useful these oil-filled tools are at forecasting storms

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Hurricane Risk Research to Focus on Bermuda

Hurricane Joaquin

Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) Member companies and local sponsors have agreed to fund a project to reconstruct a pre-historical record of hurricanes in Bermuda, using information gained from examinations of sediments deposited by hurricane storm surges and waves in two island water bodies, Spittal Pond and Mangrove Lake

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Hurricane Wind Speed Can Predict Economic Losses

Hurricane Isaac

Using more than a century of data, Rick Murnane, Risk Prediction Institute (RPI) Project Manager and Senior Research Scientist at BIOS, and his co-author uncovered a simple—but surprisingly robust—method of estimating losses

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(Re)Insurance Companies Use RPI2.0 Workshop Proceedings as Industry Reference

In March of this year, the newly christened Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) 2.0 hosted a workshop on the medium-term outlook for the frequency of hurricane landfalls in the RMS v11.0 risk model. According to this model, the computed risk for hurricanes over the medium-term (next 5 years) increased more than 100% in some regions, which forces insurance companies to hold more capital

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