Division C-5, Turfgrass Science, Annual Business Meeting AGENDA

10:00 – 11:40 AM Wednesday, November 5, 2014 Long Beach Convention Center

Seaside Ballroom A Call to Order (D. Karcher)

Agenda Additions

o CSSA President – R. Gaussoin will present in C-5 Division Report

B. Guertal – items scratched

o Awards covered in Historian Report

o Be thinking of Award nominations – March 2015

Agenda Approved

Minutes of the 2012 Business Meeting; approval (J. Hoyle)

Multiple name spellings and award titles were corrected

Motion to approve (E. Ervin)

Second (A. Patton)

C-5 Division Report (D. Karcher)

Stats

o 71 papers (44 graduate students – in 4 categories)

Down about 10% from 2013

o 112 posters (36 graduate students)

o Total number of presentations are up from 2013

Symposia

o Nutrient Cycling (co sponsored with SSA Urban and Anthropogenic Soils

8 Papers

o Impact of Genetic Engineering on Turfgrasses and Forages (co sponsored with C-6)

6 Papers

o Contemporary Approaches to Student Learning and Extension Education

6 Papers

Stiegler Golf Fundraiser

o Successful golf outing

o Encourage to attend in future meetings

CSSA Awards Breakfast

o CSSA Fellows (Murphy & B. McCarty)

o Grau Turf Science Award (B. McCarty)

o CSSA Teaching Award (S. Keeley)

o Incoming CSSA President (R. Gaussoin)

o Presidential Award (J. Beard)

Big turnout

Thank you to sponsors: USGA, TLI, TPI, and MTF

2014 – 5K Race

o J. McCurdy placed 1st

o Rinehart placed 3rd

CSSA Board Report (E. Watkins)

• Publications

– Digital Library growing

– 21.5% increase individual; 28.6% increase institutional

– Crop, Forage, and Turfgrass Management (2015)

– Plant Genome impact factor = 4.659

• Science Policy

– Congressional Visits Day

– Reviewing Grand Challenges

• Communications Committee

• Membership

– 5,970

– Increase from 2013 of 150+

– Most is student driven

• Budget

– Small operating loss

– Covered by investment income

– Ample reserves

• 2015 meeting in Minneapolis: “Synergy in Science: Partnering for Solutions”

• A. Patton will be taking over at CSSA Board Representative

CSSA Grau Award Committee Report (A. Patton)

• CSSA Grau Award – Not an office C-5 Award

• Award based on teaching, research and teaching criteria.

• 5 nominations

• B. McCarty was recipient of award

• Committee

o Revised the guidelines and placed a “5 year” mandatory review period to ensure they do not become dated again.

o Looking for volunteers to sit on the committee

o B. Unruh will be taking over as chair

• See Appendix A for full Grau Award Committee Report

C-5 Technical Editor Report (D. Bremer)

Crop Science

o Page length increased to 10.2 pages

o 870 submissions in 2013

o International to National submissions (2:1)

o Submissions down 45 in 2014

o C-5 submission rate is constant

o Average of 52 days to review

o Impact factor

Debatable but important

o Finding reviewers for manuscripts are becoming more difficult

Delaying reviewing process

o Thanks to all associate editors for their help.

o New Editors

D. Soldat

B. Whorley

J. Baird

Applied Turfgrass Science Report (Z. Reicher)

• 2014 (calendar to date)

o 23 research articles submitted

o 14 research briefs

o 59% accepted

• Days;

o Submission to 1st decision – 42

o Submission to final decision – 68

o Final decision to First Look – 7

o Final Decision to official posting (DOI) 28 to 35

o Submission to DOI – Approx. 100

• Senior Editors

o Retiring – M. Kennelly

o New – P. McCullough and L. Miller

• Associate Editors

o New – J. Hoyle, E. Nagle, B. Unruh

• Changes

o Will now accept research that contains experimental products that are close to market release.

o CSSA management with PMN web page on July 1, 2013

o Full CSSA management on Jan 1, 2014

o Minor adjustments to instructions to authors, etc. by Jan 1, 2014

o Access via organization/individual Digital Library

o Impact factor saga

Combined into a single journal as of Jan 1, 2015 (more or less)

Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management (CFTM)

Submission and review process should remain constant

Tri-Chief Editors

Turf-focused Senior Editors

Turf-focused Associate Editors

Standing Committee Reports Education (C. Bigelow)

No major changes. Special Symposia (S. Milla-Lewis)

Symposium committee task: take all suggestions for topics (5-6 ideas) → narrow it down to 1-2 → make recommendation to C-5 chair

Last year: o 12 topics, top 2 submitted to Dr. Karcher:

GPS and high speed micromanagement for turfgrass Impact of biotechnology on turf industry

Picked up support from C6 for joint symposium → final topic: o “Impact of Genetic Engineering on the Forage and Turf Industries”

The symposium was held Tuesday afternoon

There were ~130 attendees

We had six presenters: o Products developed and in development: Drs. Bob Harriman and Mark

McCaslin (industry), Dr. Zen-Yu Wang (Noble Foundation) o Herbicide resistance issues: Dr. Todd Gaines (Colorado State) o Environmental impact assessment: Dr. Hong Luo (Clemson) o Regulatory issues: Dr. Neil Hoffman (USDA-APHIS)

There was a round table at the end where the audience made questions and comments

BIG thanks to: o Presenters o Symposium committee members

o Twain Butler, chair of C6 symposium committee, helped select speakers from forage side

o All those who contributed ideas o Paul Raymer for presiding o Doug Karcher for helping us get through the details

Symposium Committee Membership o David Kopec (breeding) – rotates off Nov 2014 o Brian Schwartz (breeding) – rotates off Nov 2014 o Stan Kostka (water) – rotates off Nov 2014 o Susana Milla-Lewis (breeding) – rotates off Nov 2015 o Dara Park (water) – rotates off Nov 2015 o Xi Xiong (management) – rotates off Nov 2016 o Jared Hoyle (weed science) – rotates off Nov 2016 -> incoming chair o Karen Harris-Shultz (genetics) – incoming Nov 2014 o David Han (management) – incoming Nov 2014

topics for next year’s symposium need to be chosen shortly after this year’s conference

if you have suggestions please let me or other symposium committee members know ASAP

Ad-hoc Committee Reports Turfgrass Science Policy and Engagement (G. Munshaw)

o No New major Changes o Thanks to the Committee for all the help.

Web Page (J. Kaminski)

The web committee is still working to find an organized system for updating information. It is still difficult to update. To combat this issue a blog has been created that feeds into the C-5 webpage.

o Other online resources

Www.turfgrassscience.wordpress.com Www.facebook.com/Turfgrassscience (Facebook Page) www.twitter.com/CSSATurf (New Twitter Account)

Industry (B. Harriman)

o Members: Leah Brilman, Gary Custis, Dan Loughner, Ben Hamza, Chris Forth, Frank Wong, Bob Harriman

• What’s New in Industry • Sorry for no food this year. CA is expensive.

• Split cost with C-5 • 4 speakers • Lead by Dan Loughner

• Graduate Dinner • 25 students • Coordinated by Gary Custis

• Graduate Student Paper Competition • Proud sponsor • Winners will be presented by Leah Brilman

Student Affairs Committee (J. Trappe)

o Two new faculty Advisors (M. Elmore and J. Kruse)

o If anyone is interested on graduate student luncheon for next year the committee is looking for a sponsor.

Chris Stiegler Golf Tournament Committee Report (M. Richardson) o Committee

o T. Rogers o D. Gardner o M. Mahady o F. Wong o L. Stowell

o Held at Oak Creek Golf Club – Irvine o 44 golfers total

o Thanks to the many sponsors and donors. o Stiegler Fundraising Efforts

Budget Summary

Account Balance (end of Sep, 2014) $72,900

Disbursements to students (2014) $6,000

Tournament Summary

Registrations and hole sponsors $20,800

Other donations $11,300

Expenses ~$8,000

Net income $24,100

Fund balance $91,000

o Comments o J. Kaminski

The more the better If the fund can get over 100K it can be sustaining

Stiegler Award Committee Report and Award Announcements (J. Young and K. Kopp)

o Endowment o Approximately $66,000 going into the year o Golf tournament raised approximately $24,000 o With this years awards, we expect to have $86,000

o Application Information o 22 applicants from numerous universities o Each student was well deserved for this award o It was challenging to reduce this down to a smaller number of winners o We are providing $1,000 to 6 different students

4 PhD students 2 MS students

o Stiegler Travel Award Winners o Philipe Aldahir, PhD, Auburn University o Zane Raudenbush, PhD, Kansas State University o Charles Fontanier, PhD, Texas A&M University o Norma Flor, PhD, University of Florida o Benton Hodges, MS, Mississippi State University o Clint Mattox, MS, Oregon State University

o Thanks to everyone on the committee International Turfgrass Society (B. Clarke)

o 2017 International Turfgrass Society Update ● Newsletter (turfsociety.com/newsletters/) - You can contribute items to the Newsletter by contacting: Nathan R. Walker, editor

(nathan.walker@okstate.edu ● To Join contact Dr. John Cisar, jlci@ufl.edu ● ITS meeting - Date: July 15-22, 2017

● Location: Hyatt Regency New Brunswick, NJ ● 30 miles from NY City ● Mid-Conference Planning Mtg (ITS Board)July 2015 ● New: Opportunity to publish ITS Papers in an Impact Factor Journal ● 1st time in US since 1994 ● Expecting a big mtg (400-500 attendees) ● Focus is on Access to NYC ● Many opportunities to visit major sites in NYC ● Graduate & UG student oral/poster competitions

o International Turfgrass Society Research Journal: Update from Jim Murphy (2017 ITRJ Editor-in-Chief

o Some members want impact factor for ITRC papers o Some members calling for annual ITSRJ with impact factor o Straw poll at Quad. Business meeting (July 2013)

roughly equal support for an annual journal versus the current quadrennial publication

o Strong consensus among attendees for digital format rather than a bound paper format

o 13th Volume - publish select papers as a special edition of a journal with an established impact factor – possibly the Agron. J.

European Turfgrass Society (S. McElroy)

Encourage attendance by hosting field days on odd years, conference on even years.

Will be a two day fescue symposium

Historian Report (F. Rossi)

New Hires

o Matt Elmore – Texas A&M University

o Paul Koch – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Promotions

o Jason Kruse – Associate Professor – University of Florida

o Justin Moss – Associate Professor & Huffine Dist. Prof. – OK State Univ.

o Kemin Su – Assistant Professor – OK State Univ.

o Brandon Horvath – Associate Professor – Univ. of TN

o Jim Brosnan – Associate Professor – Univ. of TN

o Kelly Kopp – Professor – Utah State Univ.

o Brandon Horgan – Professor – Univ. of MN

o Cale Bigelow – Professor – Purdue University

o Scott McElroy – Professor – Auburn University

Movings

o Steve Batten – From OK State to Private Consulting

o Henning Cummings – Interim Dept. head to Associate Professor – Tarleton State Univ.

o Michael Faust – Promoted-Field Station Manager – Relocated from Ohio to Gervais, OR – Scotts

o Matthew Koch – Promoted-Senior Scientist – Marysville, Ohio – Scotts

o Derek Pruyne – Hired as Turfgrass Specialist – Marysville, Ohio - Scotts

o Frank Wong – Green Solutions Team to Stakeholder Engagement Manager - Bayer

Local/Regional Awards

o Dave Kopec – Univ. of Arizona - Ike Grainger Award

o Mike Richardson – Univ. of Arkansas – Gamma Sigma Delta Research Excellence Award

o Jared Hoyle – Kansas State University – Epsilon Sigma Phi, State Horizon Award

o Kelly Kopp and Paul Johnson – Utah State Univ. – Western Extension Directors Award of Excellence

o Bert McCarty – Clemson Univ. – Superior Service Award

o Paul Rieke – Michigan State Univ. – Michigan Golf Hall of Fame

o Jim Brosnan – Univ. of TN – T.J. Whatley Distinguished young Scientist Award

o John Sorochan – Univ. of TN – UT Research Foundation Tennessee Venture Challenge “QuickSod”

o Ali Harivandi – Univ. of California – Northern California GCSA Presidents Award

National Awards

o Bert McCarty – Clemson Univ. – CSSA Fellow, Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award

o Jim Murphy – Rutgers Univ. – CSSA Fellow

o Steve Keeley, Kansas State Univ. – Crop Science Teaching Excellence Award

o Brandon Horvath – Univ. of TN – TOCA Environmental Communicator Award

o Bill Meyer – National Association of Plant Breeders IMPACT Award

o Ali Harivandi – Univ. of California –TPI Educator Award of Excellence

o Kelly Kopp - Utah State Univ. – Chair-Board of Directors Alliance for Water Efficiency

o James B. Bead – CSAA Presidents Award

Retirements

o Pam Charboneau – OMAFRA – 23 years of service

o Gregg Bell – OK State Univ. – 16 years of service

o Jeff Anderson – OK State Univ.

o A. Martin Petrovic – Cornell Univ. – 35 years of service

o Passings Norman Goetze (1930-2014) James R. Love (1921-2014) Steve Hart (1964-2014) David Aldous (1943-2014)

Milestones

TGIF – 30 years Graduate Student Paper Competition (E. Ervin/L. Brilman)

80 total papers

o 4 oral competitions

o 4 poster competitions

Competition Sponsors

o GCSAA

o TBA

o Industry

o C5

Turfgrass Breeders Association

o ORAL

Meghyn Meeks and Ambika Chandra, Texas A&M University, Dallas, TX: Flow Cytometry and a Thioredoxin-like Gene: Useful Tools to Identify Poa Arachnifera x Poa Pratensis Interspecific Hybrids.

o POSTER

Frank Gibson Bethea Jr., Mohan Li, Winston Mirmow, Hong Luo and Haibo Liu, Clemson University: Investigation of Turfgrass Morphological and Cuticular Differences and Their Relationship to Hydrophobicity.

Turfgrass Industry Committee

o ORAL

Kevin M. Miele, Karl Guillard and Thomas F. Morris, University of Connecticut: Fall Verdure Sap Nitrate-N Concentrations As a Predictor of Cool-Season Turfgrass Lawn Color Response in the Fall and Following Spring.

o POSTER

Taylor Wallace, Eric Lyons, Mary Ruth McDonald, Michael Celetti and Katerina Serlemitsos Jordan, University of Guelph: Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Managed Turfgrass Systems.

GCSAA, Golf Course Mgmt

o ORAL

Glen R. Obear and Douglas J. Soldat, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Iron-cemented layers in soils of golf putting greens.

o POSTER

Xuan Chen and John C. Inguagiato, University of Connecticut: Seasonal Nitrogen Fertilization Programs and Plant Growth Regulator Effects on Anthracnose Severity of Annual Bluegrass Putting Green Turf.

C05, Turfgrass Science

o ORAL

Lisa A. Beirn, Charles J. Schmid, James W. Hempfling, James A. Murphy, Bruce B. Clarke and Jo Anne Crouch, Rutgers University: Diversity Down below: Does Fertility Impact the Rhizosphere Microbial Community in Poa Annua Turf?

o POSTER

Luqi Li and Zachary J. Reicher, University of Nebraska: Seeding Date Effects Dormant Seeding Success of Buffalograss.

A. Patton will now be the chair of the Graduate Student Competition Committee

CSSA and Divisional Officer Elections and Nominations (D. Kartcher)

CSSA Board – Aaron Patton (2015-2017)

C5 Chair-elect is Kelly Kopp (2015)

C5 Chair-elect, Zac Reicher (2016)

Nominating Committee (B. Horgan, E. Ervin, D. Kartcher) - Chair-Elect Nominations (2017) - C. Bigelow & R. Golembiewski (2015 Elections) - CSSA President-Elect? - President (Gaussoin) - President-Elect (Grusak) - Nominations must be submitted – Nov. 20 - Contact Ervin/Karcher/Kopp if interested in C-5 Chair

Old Business STMA Report (J. Sorochan) - STMA changed mission statements and make a 3-year strategic plan 1. Communications Plan - Increasing the awareness for public relations 2. Commercial Engagement 3. Environmental Stewardship - Started environmental facility certification programs 4. Natural Grass Benefits 5. Education - High School Programs - Next meeting – Denver, CO - IN 2016, San Diego, CA - Encouragement for more participation NTEP Report (K. Morris)

Warm-season (2103 initiated) trials reseeded due to cold winter o 19 of 50 locations

2015 – St. Augustine and Centipedegrass trials

Looking for funding for overseeding trial in 2016

Potential labeling for turfgrasses in the Water Science Program “Grass Roots” National Arboretum (Jeff Reinhart)

Turfresearch.org

‘Grass Roots’ Initiative – 4 yr project to show the benefits of turfgrass and roles in the landscape.

o Open – Oct. 16, 2014 Interactive exhibit Website Educational Programming National Greenscape corridor

o Had over 800 people opening weekend

Follow on facebook

Help spread the word that “turfgrass is an environmental asset” GCSAA Report (M. Johnson)

Research Funding o In 2013 offered $50,000 for 7 submitted projects, 4 funded o 2014 – have $105,000 and have received 9 proposals

Changes o More of a peer reviewed communication o Realigned endowments o Allowed university to help match funds and not just the local chapter

USGA Update (M. Kenna) The USGA is very stable financially Call for research proposals went out in April and decisions will be made in Sept. Would like to have approximately $300,000 of funding

o Money goes into budget and takes approval for funding

USGA Green Section Internship Program o Encourage Sophomore and Junior level students o Due Dec 1

USGA Greens Section – reorganized o 8 to 4 regions that will have more than one representative

Specialty Crops Research o Need more submissions o Will have and individual turfgrass panel

New Business C-5 Bylaws Revisions (D. Karcher)

• Long over-due for an update

• Many thanks to J. Murphy for drafting the updated language in early September (circulated 62 days prior to vote according to bylaws)

• Update language to conform to CSSA Bylaws

– Corrected division name to Turfgrass Science

– Remove gender specific language (Chairman)

– Formalize Stiegler Awards Committee

• Charged with awarding Stiegler Travel Awards

• Functions similar to other committees

• Chair-Elect is a member who communicates w/ applicants

• Previous topics were open to discussion.

• No discussion

• Motion to Approve (J. Stire) Second (A. Patton)

• Revisions Approved

C-5 Name change consideration (D. Karcher)

• Not able to vote but open discussion on changing the name of C-5 Turfgrass Science to Turf Science

– Comments:

• As a member of CSSA the name change might imply getting away from crops.

• Possibility of alienating sod producers (H. Cummings)

• Could lead to publishing issues (J. Stire)

• Might lead to perception that division is specifically synthetic turf (R. Golembiewski)

• New research is including broadleaves (clovers) in turfgrass therefore it would not be covered if their was a name change (C. Bigelow)

• Information passed along to K. Kopp for future consideration

C-5 Member Legacy (P. Cookingham)

Moving the analog records all over to digital records

Safe place to store information

Valuable scholarship and history preservation

Conclusion of 2013 term (D. Karcher)

Comments/Adjournment-2015 Chair (K. Kopp)

Appendix A 2014 Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award

Committee report

While this is officially a CSSA committee, I felt that the C-5 group would be interested in getting an

update on the activity of this committee.

Award description and criteria:

1. DESCRIPTION OF AWARD: The Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award is

presented in recognition of significant career contributions in turfgrass science.

Contributions may include outstanding research, teaching, extension, commercial,

or administrative activities, or a combination of these activities. The award

consists of a certificate, a complimentary ticket to the awards presentation, and an

honorarium of $1,000.

2. AWARD CRITERIA: Significance and originality of basic and/or applied research.

Teaching ability and effectiveness. Planning and implementation of extension

programs and demonstrated impact. Development and implementation of

significant industrial programs. Administrative ability and effectiveness. Total

impact of activities on turfgrass science, nationally and internationally.

Contributions on which the nomination is based must have been made within the

past 15 years of the nominee's career.

Nominations: We had 5 nominees for this award in 2014. All were very excellent and well deserving

of recognition for their contribution to the turf industry. Lambert Blanchard (L.B.) (Bert) McCarty

was our committee selection and the 2014 Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award winner. Please

congratulate Bert the next time you see him.

Committee members 2014: Aaron Patton, Purdue University - Chair

Bingru Huang, Rutgers University

Tony Koski, Colorado State University

Yaling Qian , Colorado State University

Bryan Unruh, Univ. of Florida-WFREC

Scott Warnke, USDA-ARS

Ben Wherley, Texas A&M University

Committee activities in 2014:

Committee activities in 2014 also included drafting revised guidelines for the award. The guidelines are

similar to a set of bylaws as they lay out the qualifications for the award but also instructions on how the

committee is formed and functions. The guidelines were last revised in 1995. Here is an overview of some

of our key suggested modifications:

• The current bylaws do not require that any member of our committee be involved with the C-5

division.

• Consider increasing the term of the committee members from 2 to 3 years. This would help

with the introduction of new committee members and help increase the “training” of the chair-

elect.

• Adds an official involvement from C-5 in the nomination solicitation process.

• Places an “every 5-years” mandatory review period on the guidelines to help ensure that they

do not become dated again.

• Makes minor adjustments to the award criteria that highlights the “impact” of the nominee’s

program.

Changes in 2015:

Bryan Unruh has agreed to serve as chair in 2015.

Aaron Patton, Bingru Huang, Tony Koski, Yaling Qian, Scott Warnke will all be rotating off this

committee. We are looking for volunteers to serve on this committee.