Name: Jay David Martsolf, Jr.

Institution: University of Florida

Department: Horticultural Sciences

Dean: Vice President Michael Martin

Address: 3541 N.W.29th Place

Address:

City: Gainesville

State: FL

Zip: 32605

e-mail: martsolf@ufl.edu

phone: 352 392 4711 Ext 305

Area of Interest: Inputing weather data sets into crop models permitting the forecasting of yield and potential need for protection from pest and environmental hazards.

Tell us how you use the Unidata tools in your classroom or reseach: We have not been using Unidata tools as yet but there seems to be potential to do so and this may be a good way to assess the potential.

General comments: I completed Ph.D. work in Atmospheric Science studying under Dr. Wayne L. Decker at the University of Missouri in 1966. Dr. Decker took several of us on a field trip to the UCAR Campus within a year of that date. We were quite impressed with the facility and the work that was encouraged there. I now regret that I have not kept in better contact with the program and hope if I qualify for the workshop that it will clear up this deficiency. I have more recently participated in the COMET Program with a study that promoted some techniques developed in the Satellite Frost Forecast System [funded by NASA] in which GOES images of surface temperature added appreciation for the distribution of cold near the surface on frost nights in Florida. Mr. Charlie Paxton of the NWS was a co-PI in the COMET Project.