J. Bryan Unruh, Ph.D., University of Florida, and co-author of GCSAA’s 2022 Water Use and Management Practices report provides important facts every superintendent can use in this 90-minute webinar. This is the first survey report of the third series of the Golf Course Environmental Profile and perhaps the most critical. This report provides significant data and information that GCSAA, superintendents and others in the industry need to advocate for the golf course industry, superintendent profession and game. Scientists, superintendents, assistants, and others can benefit from this data. Learn up-to-date information about water use and management trends across the nation and how you can incorporate this data as you move forward.
Original presentation date: Aug. 11, 2022
Education points: 0.20
About the Instructor
J. Bryan Unruh, Ph.D., is a professor of environmental horticulture at the University of Florida - IFAS, West Florida Research and Education Center. He earned both his bachelors and masters at Kansas State University and his Ph.D. at Iowa State University. His current position is 30 percent teaching and 70 percent extension. Unruh teaches courses in turfgrass culture, landscape and turfgrass management, and golf and sports turf management. His responsibilities as an extension turfgrass specialist include managing a 24-acre turfgrass research/demonstration field laboratory, planning and implementing turfgrass educational field days, seminars, and regional conferences for the state of Florida and the upper gulf coast region. He has taught both seminars and webinars for GCSAA and has been instrumental in developing processes for GCSAA’s BMP Planning Guide and Template.
