Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), helps businesses and governments better anticipate and manage climate- and weather-related risks. the firm prepare agencies like NOAA, NASA and the Department of Defense, along with large insurance, investment and energy companies to anticipate, manage, react to and profit from weather and climate related risk. By providing state-of-the-art research, development and analysis delivered in reports, databases and software solutions., cthe needs of clients are served AER's scientists and engineers are helping government and industry to understand weather and climate risk, predict impacts, and take action. Sientists more than 85 of whom hold PhDs or other advanced degrees have expertise span climate change, defense, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, space, remote sensing, and atmospheric and environmental science. AER is dedicated to the advancement of scientific understanding of the atmospheric, climate and weather, ocean, and planetary sciences. Through externally funded research conducted by in-house scientific staff, and often in collaboration with world-renowned scientists at academic and other research institutions, ave developed analytical tools to help measure and observe the properties of the environment and to translate these measurements into useful information to take action. In July 2004, AER acquired Radex, also of Lexington MA and a longtime SBIR firm
