Professor Jonathan Martin knows why cold weather was his professional destiny and snow shoveling would be one of his greatest personal pleasures.
As a child, Martin, with his two brothers, delivered the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and the Christian Science Monitor.
“I got to be the first one outside on those mornings. When we had a giant snowstorm, I was the first person to put footprints in it. I imagined I was Neil Armstrong on the moon,” said Martin, who heads the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. “And after that I never really got weather out of my system.”