Crop Science Society of America
UMN Turfgrass Team in the media - Dig In. Do Good.
Paige Boyle was one of the featured scientists in the Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies' Dig In. Do Good. videos outlining careers in agronomy and crop science.
Turfgrass Science team at the 2025 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meetings
Our team was well-represented at this year’s CANVAS meeting (formerly ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting) held on November 9-12, 2025 in Salt Lake City, UT.
Congratulations to Jillian Turbeville for receiving first place in the Turfgrass Ecology Graduate Student Oral Competition for her presentation, Intercropping Strategies for Increasing Hard Fescue (Festuca brevipila) Seed Production in Northern Minnesota.
New research publication from our team - 6/2/25
Learn more about our research! A new, open access article by Eric Watkins, Dominic P. Petrella, Trygve Aamlid, Dominic C. Christensen, Sigridur Dalmannsdottir, Andrew P. Hollman, and Gary Deters has been published in Crop Science. The authors tested five different turfgrasses for their ability to survive under ice.
New research publication from our team - 1/9/25
Learn more about our research! A new, open access article by Michael Barnes, Joshua Friell, Bryan Runck, Douglas Soldat, Eric Watkins, and Chengyan Yue has been published in Crop Science. The authors propose the adoption of a new framework – social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) – for turfgrass to improve research collaboration.
Turfgrass Science team at the 2024 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meetings
Turfgrass Science Team at the 2023 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meetings
The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota was well-represented at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meetings held on October 29 - November 1, 2023 in St. Louis, MO. Two people gave oral presentations and three people presented posters. Below is a listing of all the oral presentations and posters along with the presentation abstracts and University Digital Conservancy links for the poster PDF files.
Oral presentations
Cultivating New Opportunities for Turfgrass Science Education in Minnesota
Presenting author: Michael Barnes; co-authors: Ileana Campagna, Becky Haddad, and Eric Watkins
Dr. Eric Watkins awarded 2023 CSSA Fellowship
Dr. Eric Watkins has been awarded a 2023 CSSA Fellowship by the Crop Science Society of America.
Turfgrass Science team at the 2022 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting
The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota was well-represented at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting held on November 6-9, 2022 in Baltimore, MD.
Below is a listing of the abstracts from the meeting:
Reducing Environmental Risk in Genetically Modified Perennial Ryegrass
Presented by Jonathan Cors; co-authored by Eric Watkins and Michael Smanski
Turfgrass Science Team at the 2021 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting
The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota was well-represented at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting held on November 7-10, 2021 in Salt Lake City, UT. Two of our graduate students, Nicole Mihelich and Joan Barreto Ortiz, gave oral presentations there. Below are their presentation titles and abstracts.
Turfgrass Science Team at the 2019 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting
The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota was well-represented at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting held on November 10-13, 2019 in San Antonio, TX. Seven people gave oral presentations and five people presented posters. Additionally, congratulations go to two members of our group who placed in the graduate student oral presentation contests: