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Seven minutes of outstanding contributions
The GCSAA announced last week that Dr. Larry Stowell and Dr. Wendy Gelernter have been selected to receive the prestigious Outstanding Contribution Award. I asked Google’s NotebookLM AI service to generate an audio overview of their contributions.
Micah Woods
2024-10-05
1 min read
Top ATC2x episodes
The ATC Doublecut podcast now has more than 150 episodes for your viewing or listening pleasure. Which ones have been listened to the most? My favorite episode to record was this one about locations in the world with 365 days in the year with a high GP for cool-season grass.
Micah Woods
2024-10-03
2 min read
The Grammar of Greenkeeping: managing turfgrass growth for optimal playing surfaces
A couple of the science and statistics blogs I follow have recently shared AI-generated audio summaries of research papers. The ones I’ve seen were from Google’s NotebookLM. I hadn’t been using this, with most of my LLM (large language model) use over the past couple years being ChatGPT.
Micah Woods
2024-09-23
5 min read
Breaking the ice
Have you seen the remarkable USGA Green Section Record from last week? It’s got a podcast with Chris Tritabaugh ahead of this year’s U.S. Amateur Championship on the topic of playability.
Micah Woods
2024-03-18
2 min read
Testing MLSN
I listened to Joe Gulotti’s Talking Greenkeeper podcast with guest Daniel Palin about an MLSN trial on 9 holes, and a different method on the other 9 holes. You can listen to the show for the full story.
Micah Woods
2024-03-01
1 min read
'Greenkeepers know, the world over, that if the grass grows too slow, they will be out of a job'
I was a guest on The Tie podcast where I spoke with Walker Simas about “Turf for Dummies.” Well, not quite to that extreme. We still managed to cover a lot of greenkeeping topics, but perhaps I explained the topics in a less technical way.
Micah Woods
2024-02-04
1 min read
Grammar in a podcast and turf talk at a tournament
Joe Gulotti has invited me onto his The Talking Greenkeeper show for a year-end episode for a few years now. This year he called it “The Micah Woods Annual Holiday Special.
Micah Woods
2023-12-26
2 min read
Managing firmness (surface hardness) of turfgrass surfaces
Here are three items that cover the topic of surface hardness, or the firmness of turfgrass surfaces, from all kinds of angles. Richard Forsyth is the director of courses at Royal Melbourne Golf Club.
Micah Woods
2023-05-10
2 min read
A long talk with Joe Gulotti
Joe Gulotti’s The Talking Greenkeeper podcast is popular all over the world. When I travel, I often meet people who tell me how much they enjoy listening to his show, and some who tell me they first heard of me, or of MLSN, by listening to the show.
Micah Woods
2022-12-20
1 min read
Estimated nitrogen mineralization from soil organic matter
This topic—carbon in turfgrass soils—was the subject of a Frankly Speaking podcast episode. One of the topics host Frank Rossi spoke about with guests Drs. Claire Phillips and Alec Kowalewski was the nitrogen mineralized from soil organic matter.
Micah Woods
2022-10-30
3 min read
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