Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Fraisse Lab
Led by Clyde Fraisse · Agricultural and Biological Engineering
What we study
The Fraisse Lab studies how climate science, like El Niño and La Niña, affects agriculture in Florida. They develop web tools to help farmers make decisions, such as timing fungicide applications for strawberry diseases.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Web-based decision support system for strawberry fungicide timing
A tool to help growers time fungicide applications based on climate data.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Spatial and temporal trends in air temperature and evaporative demand in Florida: implications for climate adaptation
2026 · Climatic Change
- El Niño Southern Oscillation and Chill Accumulation Variability in the Southeastern United States
2026 · International Journal of Climatology
Looks at how El Niño affects winter chill in the Southeast U.S., which can harm fruit crops.
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- Influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on Botrytis infection risk in Florida
2025 · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
- Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil
2024 · Environmental Research Letters
Explores how Brazil could grow more wheat to meet domestic needs.
- CIFA: A roadmap for services to monitor weather extremes affecting agriculture under a changing climate
2024 · Climate Services
Develops a system to track weather extremes affecting farming under climate change.
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How to reach out
Clyde Fraisse hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.