Crop & Soil Sciences: Personnel: Faculty
Robert Carrow
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Academic Rank: | Professor |
| Academic History: | Ph.D., Michigan State University 1972 | |
| Area of Expertise: | Turfgrass management | |
| Campus: | Griffin | |
| Office Location: | 2 Weed Science Building | |
| Email: | rcarrow@uga.edu | |
| Phone: | 770/228-7277 | |
| Fax: | 770/412-4734 | |
| Shipping Address: | Crop & Soil Sciences Georgia Experiment Station The University of Georgia 1109 Experiment Street Griffin, GA 30223 |
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Research, Teaching, and Extension Work
Dr. Robert Carrow is a Professor of Turfgrass Science in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at the University of Georgia and is located at the Georgia Experiment Station in Griffin, GA. A native of Michigan, he obtained his BS (1968) and PhD (1972) from Crop and Soil Sciences at Michigan State University. He was a faculty member in turfgrass science at the University of Massachusetts (1972-76) and Kansas State University (1976-1984) before accepting a 100% turfgrass research position in 1985 from the University of Georgia.
Dr. Carrow has co-authored three books: Salt-Affected Turfgrass Sites: Assessment and Management (1998); Seashore Paspalum: The Environmental Turfgrass (2000); and Turfgrass Soil Fertility and Chemical Problems (2001). He is co-editor of Turfgrass, Agronomy Monograph No. 32 (Amer. Soc. of Agronomy, 1992) and served in the Crop Science Society of America within the Turfgrass Science Division as Chair, Board Representative, and Associate Editor. Since 1993 he has served as Vice-President of the International Turfgrass Society for turfgrass scientists. Dr. Carrow is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy.
Bob has written numerous scientific book chapters/journal articles (100) and trade journal articles (201). He is widely sought as a speaker and has made over 484 invited presentations on a world-wide basis to turfgrass professionals and 26 to scientific audiences in 38 states and several countries, including Australia, Canada, England, Singapore, Japan, and Guam. He has been a cooperator on the release of 3 bermudagrasses, 2 seashore paspalums, and 2 tall fescues. Dr. Carrow is currently working with co-authors on books related to turfgrass irrigation water quality issues; and BMPs for turfgrass water conservation/water-use efficiency.
For over 25 years, Dr. Carrow has conducted annual workshops in 2-day formats to the GCSAA in the areas of managing salt-affected sites; soil fertility and fertilization; and soil physical problem assessment and management. Recently, Bob has been the lead scientist in development of a comprehensive educational program on BMPs for water conservation on golf courses with the GCSAA that was introduced in the fall of 2003 as a component of the GCSAA's new Center for Water. This was followed by development of a 100-page template that turf grass managers can use to develop site-specific BMPs for water conservation on their sites. His educational philosophy is to develop in-depth informational materials that present both scientific principles and comprehensive practical information that integrates the current state of knowledge, and information to deal with problems with a holistic (whole system) approach.
Dr. Carrow's research focus has been in the areas of climatic and soil stresses, especially drought, saline/sodic, low soil oxygen, acid-soil complex, low light, and nutritional stress; water conservation and irrigation water quality issues; management of salt-affected sites and seashore paspalum, including development of salt monitoring methods; and traffic stresses on recreational sites, both in terms of wear and soil compaction.