Teaching: Turfgrass and Ornamental Weed Management

Education and Experience

Society Memberships

• Weed Science Society of America
• Weed Science Society of North Carolina
• Southern Weed Science Society
• American Society of Agronomy
• American Society for Horticultural Science
• Epsilon Sigma Phi
• Gamma Sigma Delta
• North Carolina Association of Cooperative Extension Specialists
• Golf Course Superintendents of America
• Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association
• Triangle Turfgrass Association
• United States Golf Association (USGA)

Professional Activities

Advisory Boards, Editorial Boards, and Board of Directors

• State:

• Turfgrass Council of North Carolina (Advisory Board & Board of Directors)
• NCDOT Environmental Stewardship Committee (Advisory Board)

• National:

• Lawn and Landscape Magazine (Editorial Board)
• TurfFax (Editorial Board)
• Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (Advisor - Research)
• Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (Advisor - Faculty Resource)

Honors and Awards

• 1999 Outstanding Young Weed Scientist - Southern Weed Science Society (presented in Jan., 2000, Tulsa OK)
• Distinguished Service Award (Weed Science Society of NC), 1996
• State Early-Career Service Award (Epsilon Sigma Phi), 1993
• Gamma Sigma Delta, 1989
• Philip Morris Fellowship, N. C. State University, 1986-87

Foreign Travel/Assignments

• ToyoGreen Turf Seminar, Tokyo, Japan (keynote speaker)
• Malinalco Golf & Country Club, Malinalco, Mexico
• 1998 Australian Golf Course Conference and Show (Keynote Speaker), Brisbane
• Regional Australian Turfgrass Conferences in Perth, Sydney, and Adelaide
• International Turfgrass Society Meetings in Sydney, Australia (1997)
• Agro-Phyto Meeting of CORESTA in Oxford, England (Invited Speaker).
• CORESTA Meetings, Harare, Zimbabwe
• Philip Morris Agricultural Leadership Program, Brazil
• Invited presentations also given in: Turkey, France, and Italy