{"id":79,"date":"2021-02-03T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:29:26","slug":"extension-steering-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/steering-committees\/extension-steering-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension Steering Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;Extension&nbsp;Agents are a conduit to the end-users&nbsp;of turfgrasses (i.e.,&nbsp;public). Through face-to-face contact and work with Master Gardeners and other groups,&nbsp;Extension&nbsp;Agents&nbsp;often&nbsp;have&nbsp;more direct contact with the public and their landscape issues than plant breeders or extension specialists. The Extension Specialist will gather information related to drought tolerant turfgrasses in their state.&nbsp;We will conduct one or two&nbsp;meetings via&nbsp;teleconference&nbsp;by the end of the first year of the project. The&nbsp;Extension&nbsp;Agents&nbsp;will&nbsp;also attend a summer meeting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table caes-extended-core-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Team Members<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Grady Miller<\/td><td>NC State, Crop and Soil Science, Researcher<\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:grady_miller@ncsu.edu\">grady_miller@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jay McCurdy<\/td><td>\u00a0Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University\u00a0<\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:jmccurdy@pss.msstate.edu\">jmccurdy@pss.msstate.edu<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bernd Leinauer<\/td><td>New Mexico State University, Extension Turfgrass Specialist\u00a0<\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:leinauer@ad.nmsu.edu\">leinauer@ad.nmsu.edu<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chrissie Seagers<\/td><td>Texas A&amp;M University, Extension Specialist<\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:chrissie.segars@ag.tamu.edu\">chrissie.segars@ag.tamu.edu<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>J. Bryan Unruh<\/td><td>University of Florida, Crop and Soil Science, Researcher<\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:jbu@ufl.edu\">jbu@ufl.edu<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Becky Grubbs-Bowling<\/td><td>Bowling,\u00a0Texas A&amp;M University, Extension Specialist<\/td><td><a href=\"mailto:bgrubbs@tamu.edu\">bgrubbs@tamu.edu<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/files\/2021\/02\/Extension-advisory-infographic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/files\/2021\/02\/Extension-advisory-infographic.png 410w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/files\/2021\/02\/Extension-advisory-infographic-120x300.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Extension&nbsp;Agents are a conduit to the end-users&nbsp;of turfgrasses (i.e.,&nbsp;public). Through face-to-face contact and work with Master Gardeners and other groups,&nbsp;Extension&nbsp;Agents&nbsp;often&nbsp;have&nbsp;more direct contact with the public and their landscape issues than plant breeders or extension specialists. The Extension Specialist will gather information related to drought tolerant turfgrasses in their state.&nbsp;We will conduct one or two&nbsp;meetings via&nbsp;teleconference&nbsp;by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-sidebar","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/200"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/scriturf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}