Micah Woods
Chief Scientist at PACE Turf
Thailand
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Top SchoolMicah Woods, Ph.D., is the founder and chief scientist of the Asian Turfgrass Center with over two decades of international experience researching and advising on turfgrass across Asia, Australia, North America, and Europe. Trained at Oregon State and Cornell, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on agronomy, having served as a superintendent in China and an agronomist in Japan before founding his center in 2006. His collaborative development of the MLSN guidelines with PACE Turf reflects a practical, data-driven approach to nutrient management that applies to "any grass, anywhere." Micah also teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee and directs research at PACE Turf, bridging academic, commercial, and practitioner communities. Based in Thailand, he communicates complex turf science accessibly through publications like A Short Grammar of Greenkeeping and his long-running field data collections. An interdisciplinary thinker, he is known for turning global field observations into pragmatic guidelines used by turf managers in diverse climates.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Horticulture, B.Sc., Horticulture at Oregon State UniversityPh.D., Horticulture, Ph.D., Horticulture at Cornell University
Github Skills (20)
hugo-theme10
page-builder10
netlify10
jupyter10
rstudio10
rmarkdown10
r9
forestry9
cms9
hugo9
open-science9
blogdown9
roamresearch9
blog-engine8
data-science8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
micahwoods/micahwoods.github.io
Jul 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1001 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
micahwoods/ppfd_by_time
Mar 2016 - Jun 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
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