Welcome to our course on Climate Technology and Analytics at Loyola University. This is a unique course that blends weather data with maps and other sources of information to better understand implications for financial services, notably for property insurance.

The goal of this blog is to capture your thoughts on news or magazine articles that speak directly to what we are studying. Blogs provide a collaborative forum for students (and those outside the class who share an interest in this subject) to share stories and insights regarding the world of information systems with a particular focus on climate analytics. You can find any article anywhere or articles if you prefer - but please try to look for something that is recent - and build a 500-word blog post around it.

Over the course of the next few weeks, students will be posting items of interest to this blog. The blog is open to the public - they can read but only students enrolled in the course are permitted to post to the blog.

If you have any doubts as to whether the article you want to blog about is relevant, please speak with me ahead of time. Students are expected to pay close attention to what their peers have posted on the blog and to make comments on what they read. The use of this blog will hopefully prove to be a valuable learning tool for everyone in the class. By sharing our knowledge with one another through an open and interactive forum, we can learn much more both individually and as a class. Please ensure that whatever materials you post to the blog are appropriately cited. If you find an article on the web which you would like to bring to our attention, please post the exact URL with reference to where the article has come from.

Thanks everyone - let the blogging commence!

Paul