ETS Conference participants were welcomed during the opening session by (from left to right as viewed): Nektarios Panayiotis (former ETS Board President); Paulo Águas (Vice-Rector of the University of Algarve); Carlos Guerrero (Convener of the 5th ETS Conference); and Maria de Lurdes Cristiano (Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Algarve).

During the first two days, five keynote speakers delivered respectively five interesting talks:

• José António Monteiro, from the University of Algarve, spoke about turf, mankind and landscape;

• Jason Kruse, from the University of Florida, had his talk focusing on the maximization of turfgrass performance, looking for micronutrients and turf nutrition;

• Richard Snyder, from the University of California Davis, gave his talk focusing on water management through low-cost urban ET (evapotranspiration) measurements and estimates;

• Filippo Lulli, from Turf Europe, showed how precision farming practices in sports turf management, can help to solve new and old problems in football pitches, such as the French stadiums that are being used in the football European championship 2016; and

• Tom Hsiang, from the University of Guelph, gave his presentation on disease resistance activators and its benefits.

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Seven of the nine newly elected ETS Board members are shown here (from left to right as viewed): Alessandro de Luca, Carlos Guerrero, Claudia de Bertoldi (Secretary), Stewart Brown (President), Anne Mette Dahl Jensen, Fritz Lord (Vice-President) and Wolfgang Praemassing.

On the second day, the ETS had its General Assembly where a new Board was elected. For the next four years, the actual ETS Board has the following members:

• Stewart Brown, Myerscough College (UK), President

• Anne Mette Dahl Jensen, University of Copenhagen (DEN)

• Alessandro de Luca, Italian Golf Federation (ITA)

• Claudia de Bertoldi, Turf Europe (ITA)

• Tatsiana Espevig, Norwegian Institute of Bio-Economy Research (NIBIO) (NOR)

• Carlos Guerrero, University of Algarve (POR)

• Bernd Leinauer, New Mexico State University (GER/USA)

• Fritz Lord, COMPOEXPERT (GER)

• Wolfgang Praemassing, DEULA Rheinland GmbH (GER)

To the former ETS Board, a special word: Tank you for your commitment to the association. A special acknowledgment to: Messinagro, Syngenta, Itelmatis, Novarelva, Bayer, Sapec, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the Luso-American Development Foundation, and the Algarve Tourism Office for the financial support given.

This trio of ETS Presidents includes (from left to right as viewed): Stewart Brown (the newly elected ETS Board President), Nektarios Panayiotis (former ETS Board President who served 2012-2016), and Marco Volterrani (the first ETS Board President, who served 2008-2012).

On the third day of the ETS Conference attendees took a technical tour to three different sites. Their first visit was to Herdade dos Salgados Golf Course, which is totally irrigated with treated wastewater.

Carlos Guerrero, University of Algarve, Portugal, was the Convener for this ETS Conference.

Photo Credit: All photos courtesy of the European Turfgrass Society.

TPI Turf News September/October 2016