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Welcome Jon Dickerson

Igrew up just down the road from Virginia Tech in Christiansburg where I still live today. I am blessed with a beautiful family, my wife Laura and two daughters Eleanor and Rose. I love to spend time with them camping, and I also enjoy hunting, fishing, and going to the gym.

The past nine research seasons I have had the pleasure of serving the turf team currently under Dr. Mike Goatley at the Virginia Tech Turfgrass Research Center in Blacksburg. Coming from an Environmental Science and Soils background, earning B.S. 2010 and M.S. 2013 at Virginia Tech, I had a lot to learn about turf, but thanks to a crash course in on-the-job training and being surrounded by so many talented turf team members I have grown to love learning about this field and I am eager to pass this experiential knowledge on.

I have big shoes to fill replacing Sam Doak as the Agriculture Technology Turfgrass Instructor and I plan to teach from the skills I have relied on for managing turf in a research setting. I will continue to utilize the many relationships and contacts in our industry to provide a practical, hands-on, on-the-job learning experience. It is my hope to develop new course curricula based on the demands from our industry partners and I look forward to this new challenge.