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Thursday, Oct. 24th 8:00 - 9:30 AM Best Management Practices for Turfgrass Irrigationby Marco Schiavon, Ph.D. Seminar Price: $60 CEUs: APLD, IA, NALP, PGMS, QWEL Room: TBD Turfgrass doesn't waste water. Turf managers and faulty irrigation systems can waste water. If you want to learn more about doing everything you can to conserve water this seminar can guide you along the way. Attendees will be presented with research-based information aiming to incorporate all facets of turf management to maximize water conservation.  Marco Schiavon, Ph.D.Marco Schiavon, Ph.D., is an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. His primary research interests include potable water conservation for irrigating turfgrass areas, salinity management, physiology of turfgrass in response to drought stress. He received a B.S. in Agronomical Sciences in 2005 and a M.S. in Agronomy in 2008 both from University of Padua, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Agronomy in 2013 from New Mexico State University. In 2013, he moved to UCR where he worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar until December 2016. He has published 21 refereed journal articles, and obtained a USGA grant for his Ph.D. project. Previous TLE Presentations2018 & 2017 - How Much Water Does Your Turf Need?The seminar will review the benefits of having natural turf vs. artificial or no turf, and will include the last results from studies that calculated irrigation requirements on different turf species and cultivars conducted at the University of California, Riverside. Secondarily the study will focus on strategies to reduce potable water consumption to irrigate turf areas, and to identify the right species to be grown in Southern California. 2014 - Turfgrass Disease ManagementThis course will focus on major diseases affecting turfgrass areas in California, environmental conditions that are favorable to their outbreak, and best management practices to prevent them. Diseases control approaches (chemical control, species selection, correct irrigation practices), will be presented and analyzed. 2013 – Integrated Pest Control for TurfgrassThis course will use existing knowledge to focus on integrated pest management techniques currently utilized in turfgrass. All the pest control approaches (chemical and biological control, species selection, correct irrigation practices) and strategies for their combination will be reviewed and analyzed. More . . .Two ongoing United States Golf Association-National Turfgrass Evaluation Program studies investigating water requirements of different cool- and warm-season species and varieties A project about mapping and monitoring turfgrass cooling effects from the house to the city scale in Inland California from a grant awarded by The Lawn Institute. Two ongoing multiple year studies funded by the California Turfgrass and Landscape Foundation, entitled "Identification of Wetting Agents and Use Strategies to Reduce Turfgrass Water Use in California" and "Salinity Management on Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens" Read LandscapeArchitect.com's "The Future of Turf" and "Salt of the Earth" articles featuring Marco Schiavon. All reports and contributions can be found on his company website: https://turfgrass.ucr.edu/ Follow him on Twitter for updates @ucrsavingturf |
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