Jada Powlen and Cale Bigelow recently had a manuscript published. “Cool-season golf course fairway species irrigation requirements under limited irrigation” It is an open access paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cft2.20205. The manuscript reports the results of a two-year field study looking at various traditional and alternative cool-season golf course fairway grasses for their summer water needs. These data[Read More…]
Cale Bigelow and Jada Powlen attended and participated in the 2023 Sports Field Managers Association (SFMA) annual meeting last week in Salt Lake City, UT. They co-presented a seminar “What’s new in cultural practices for turf disease suppression” and Cale presented two seminars: Turfgrass nutrition 101 and co-presented Practical calculations for the sports field manager[Read More…]
Congratulations to Cale Bigelow for receiving the William Daniel Award on January 19 at the Sports Field Management Association (SFMA) Conference. Named for one of the four founders of SFMA, Dr. William Daniel set the pattern for educator/researcher involvement in SFMA. The partnership between educators and researchers and the sports turf managers who incorporate these advances[Read More…]
Editor’s Note: One of our HLA Presenters was inadvertently missing from the previous version of this story. Antonio Verzotto will also present at the Indiana Green Expo. HLA Happenings regrets this error. Fourteen of HLA’s Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students will speak at the Indiana Green Expo, January 30 – February 1 at the Indiana[Read More…]
This week we celebrated eight of our faculty and staff’s milestone years of service at Purdue: a total of 210 years of experience between them. Congratulations to: Cary Mitchell (50 years) Mike Dana (40 years) Elizabeth Maynard (30 years) Peter Hirst (25 years) John Orick (25 years) Cale Bigelow (20 years) Lora White (10 years)[Read More…]
Cale Bigelow and Jada Powlen attended the 49th Virginia Tech Turf Field Day in Blacksburg, Virginia. Jada presented on a collaborative field research project related to her Ph.D. dissertation examining the effects of planting cool-season grass blends and mixtures with superior resistance to the summer lawn disease, brown patch. The results of these studies demonstrate a[Read More…]
4 The HLA Welcome Back Bash was a success despite the rain ending it earlier than planned. Undergraduate students enjoyed the taco bar, cornhole, the photo booth, and bingo (with prizes!). Thank you to Robin Tribbet, Gloribel Rosales-Burdin, Ashley Breed, Pam Fisher, Kyle Daniel, Kirby Kalbaugh, Mike Dana, Kathryn Orvis, Steve Hallett, Josh Widhalm, Cale[Read More…]
Jada Powlen and Cale Bigelow attended the NC State Turf Field Day in Raleigh, NC this week. Jada presented on a collaborative aspect of her Ph.D. research project: “Tall fescue lawns and brown patch: Does fertilization program and cultivar selection really matter?” The event attracted more than 700 individuals associated with professional management of lawns,[Read More…]