About
the Authors
Jim Puhalla
is the president of Sportscape International, Inc., a
firm specializing in the design, construction, renovation
and maintenance of sports fields and related facilities,
with operations in Boardman, Ohio; Dallas; and Detroit.
Jim has contributed a number of articles to Sports Turf
Magazine. Jim studied landscape architecture at Ohio State
University and accounting at Youngstown State University.
He has worked in the sports field industry since 1978,
designing, building or renovating hundreds of fields throughout
North America. The company’s reconstruction of the
Boardman High School field won them a 1995 “Baseball
Diamond of the Year” Award from Sports Turf.
Jeff Krans
is a Professor of Agronomy at Mississippi State University
in the Golf and Sports Turf Management program. He received
his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1975, an M.S.
from the University of Arizona in 1973, and his B.S. from
the University of Wisconsin in 1970. He has taught and
advised students in the turf management program at Mississippi
State since 1976. Jeff has conducted research in turfgrass
germplasm collection and evaluation, tissue culture and
cell selection techniques, and turfgrass physiology. His
most recent accomplishments include the development, patenting
and commercialization of turf-type bermudagrass cultivars
MS-Pride, MS-Choice (Bulls-eye), MS-Express, and MS-Supreme,
and the development and release of heat and disease resistant
creeping bentgrass germplasm. Jeff is a member and former
chairperson of the Turfgrass Science Division of the Crop
Science Society of America, and seminar instructor for
the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.
A native of
Springfield, Kentucky, Mike Goatley is a Professor of
Agronomy in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
at Mississippi State University. Mike received his Ph.D.
from Virginia Tech in 1988, his M.S. from the University
of Kentucky in 1986, and his B.S. from the University
of Kentucky in 1983. He has taught and advised students
in the Golf and Sports Turf Management program at Mississippi
State since 1988. Mike has conducted turfgrass research
in the areas of plant nutrition, plant growth regulation,
and soil modification. He serves as Secretary and Newsletter
Editor for the Mississippi Turfgrass Association.
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