Geoffrey Knobl
Specialist
Expertise: Information Technologies; Website Development and Support; Database Creation and Management; Computer Programming
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Research Interests
Computerized information recording and storage, Web site development and maintenance,
web accessible database design and creation.
Personal Information
Geoffrey Knobl received his Bachelors degree from Virginia Tech in 1987. After
graduation, he began working full-time in the Food Science & Technology
Department at Virginia Tech as a computer programmer. Geoffrey's work includes:
pioneering a program which provides Virginia seafood processors access to the
budding world wide web; establishing a web sites for the CFAST program and
the Food Science & Technology Department at Virginia Tech; developing databases
to record food safety information, and programming an economic analysis spreadsheet
for the seafood industry. Geoffrey also keeps the computers running smoothly
in the Dept. of Food Science.
Besides computer work, Geoff is a road biking enthusiast and biking advocate and enjoys listening to and performing music. On May 20, 2000, he married Abbie Thye and on March 24, 2002 was overjoyed by the birth of his new son, Garrett Michael. He is now awaiting the birth of his second son, Kyle Brian in March of 2005.
Current Projects
Designing a hardware/software systems that records, calculates, displays, and
prints temperature, f-values, pressure and other HACCP related data for seafood
storage and processing operations.
Creating a web accessible MS Access seafood composition database and seafood article reference database.
Maintenence and improving this and other web sites.
Recent Publications
1996-Current. The CFAST Website.
2002. CFAST Seafood Reference Database
2003. The Electronic CFAST Newsletter.
2003-Current. The High Pressure Processing Website.
