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Dr. Jim Jacobi of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service Receives Two Distinguished Service Awards
By James Horton
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It is with great pleasure and tribute that Alabama Turfgrass Association congratulates Dr. Jim Jacobi for recently receiving two prestigious awards. During the summer of 2021, Dr. Jacobi received the Distinguished Service Award from The Alabama Association of County Agricultural Agents and Specialists (AACAAS), and a short while after that he received the Distinguished Service Award from The National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA). It is a great honor that Dr. Jacobi was recognized for these awards by his peers. He is respected among his peers, not only for his scientific knowledge, but for his integrity and uprightness.
Dr. Jim Jacobi
Dr. Jacobi has been a longtime member of ATA and became our Ex Officio/ Education Advisor in late 2010 after the retirement of David Hubbard from ACES that same year. Since that time, Dr. Jacobi has served ATA on the Editorial Committee for Alabama Turf Times, as well as the ATA Education Committee, helping select all the topics for ATA’s educational events over the last eleven years.
As you know, Dr. Jacobi is an Alabama Cooperative Extension System Plant Pathology Specialist and has managed the Plant Diagnostic Lab located at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens since it opened in 2000. His lab provides high-quality diagnostic services for the identification and management of diseases of turfgrass, landscape ornamentals, vegetables, and fruit crops. Each year his lab processes over 1,000 samples from residential and commercial clients, with many being ATA members. But he does so much more, as we all know. He is called on to identify turfgrass species, ornamental plant material including trees (he is a certified arborist with ISA), as well as insects and animals. His knowledge is vast. In addition to that, he finds time to speak at educational programs offered through ACES, the Master Gardener Program, other Green Industry Associations and numerous plant pathology associations. He unquestionably provides Distinguished Service and ATA members are very happy he received that recognition.
