SOME RECENT INDEPENDENT PROJECT TITLES

Assessment of the seasonality of major earthquakes in Japan

Windfall hazard of land-falling hurricanes in the USA

Implementation and application of catastrophe modelling in the insurance industry

Analysis of methodologies used to derive functional wind-speed datasets for exploitation by the insurance industry

El Niño – La Niña and their effects on Atlantic hurricane development

Evaluation of the National Flood Insurance Program of the United States in light of the 1993 Great Midwest Flood

Re-assessment of earthquake return periods in New Madrid: implications for building vulnerability

Climate change and the reinsurance market: current views and future challenges

Analysis of Seattle's susceptibility to tsunamis: a mega-thrust earthquake-induced tsunami inundation model

Assessing the earthquake risk to the San Francisco Bay area

Modelling typhoon risk in the western North Pacific using a long-term historical perspective on event activity rates

Flood hazard in China and insurance solutions

Economic value in the Met Office forecast for the Winter 2005/6