2023 HGCSA Seminar Agenda – Hawaii Golf Course Superintendents Association

9:30-10:00am	Registration
Carmen Magro, CGCS and PhD Candidate
10:00-12:00	Understanding turf’s vital signs, and making the RIGHT decisions in water, nutrient, salinity and cultural practice management - Defining turf and setting expectations - Turfgrass physiology and why its important to understand on the Hawaiian Islands - Understanding water and soil physics and how these impact EVERYTHING - Salts and Nutrition...does turf know the difference? - Using monitoring technology for a view inside and into the future - Pulling it all together - Viewing YOUR turf from your TURF’s perspective
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch
Dr. Fred Yelverton
1:00-2:00	Biology and Ecology of Important Turfgrass weeds on Hawaii Golf Courses
2:00-3:00:	Management of goosegrass, sedges, and spurges
3:00-3:15: Break
3:15-4:00	Management of other turfgrass weeds on Hawaii golf courses
4:00-4:30	Herbicide programs that minimize the development of herbicide resistance
4:30-5:00	Questions, discussion, and wrap-up.

HGCSA 2003 Annual Seminar Agenda