MGCSA Welcomes New UMN Staff: Parker Anderson Parker Anderson has been chasing the sun in the golf business for the last 12 years, but his roots are deep in Minnesota. He is the newest team member of the University of Minnesota Turfgrass Research Lab as part of the Science of the Green Initiative (www.scienceofthegreen.org). Parker’s office at the St. Paul campus is, ironically, just a few buildings away from where his grandfather, Parker Oscar
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Anderson, taught as a Professor of Forestry and served as State Extension Forester for many years. Parker recently completed a dual-master’s degree program in Landscape Architecture (MLA) and Sustainable Systems (MS) from the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. His field of study focused on golf’s interaction with the