New technologies for achieving higher quality turf will be highlighted at this year's 10th Annual PACE Turfgrass Research Seminar April 7 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Seven California CEUs have been approved, and 0.65 GCSAA education points have been applied for. Online registration is available at www.paceturf.org or by calling 858-272-9897. Registration for the meeting is $150 if reserved prior to April 3. Registration at the door is $190.
Topics covered at the seminar include an introduction to precision management: IPM, GPS and GIS; photography for IPM; quantifying and achieving firmer greens; new information on rapid blight; water quality and turf performance; precision tools for measuring turf quality and updates on disease, insect and weed management.
Wendy Gelernter, Ph.D., and Larry Stowell, Ph.D., research directors of PACE, are featured speakers with three guest presenters: Shoumo Mitra, Ph.D., from the department of plant and soil science at Cal Poly Pomona; Mary Olsen, Ph.D., from the department of plant pathology at the University of Arizona; and Frank Wong, Ph.D., from the department of plant pathology at the University of California, Riverside.
Registration fees include educational materials, parking, continental breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks.
About 125 golf course superintendents and turf managers regularly attend the 10-session seminar. Presentations and handouts from all the sessions for 2006 and for years past are available to PACE members at the PACE Web site at www.paceturf.org. Nonmembers may sign up at the site for a free trial membership.
PACE Turfgrass Research Institute is a membership organization that provides research, education and information services to the turf management community. Founded in 1993 by its research directors Wendy Gelernter, Ph.D., and Larry Stowell, Ph.D., the PACE mission is to generate and share independent and objective agronomic information among turf professionals so they may develop management programs that are effective, practical and scientifically sound.