General Session Speakers
General Session 1:
Ed Gilman
 Ed Gilman
received his PhD from Rutgers
and has been on the faculty since 1986 as professor in the
Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of
Florida in Gainesville. He teaches arboriculture, conducts
research on planting and pruning and works extensively with
industry. He is the author of six books on trees and
landscape plants, many software programs, and web sites that
have received numerous awards. Ed wrote “Illustrated guide
to pruning” which is in its third edition. He is a Florida
chapter ISA past-president. He received the Authors Citation
Award in 1999, the Educators Award in 2003, and the research
award in 2007 from the ISA for sustained excellence in
research, publishing and teaching timely information on tree
care. He has published more than 75 scientific peer reviewed
journal articles in his 30 years in academia and industry.
General Session 2:
Laurie Trenholm
 Laurie
Trenholm received both her B.S. and M.S. degrees from
the Environmental Horticulture Department at the University
of Florida, majoring in Turfgrass Science. Her Ph.D. is from
the University of Georgia’s Crop and Soil Science Department
in Turfgrass Physiology. She is currently a Professor of
Environmental Horticulture at the University of Florida in
Gainesville. She has been active in development of the Green
Industries Best Management Practices and leads the statewide
research program on nutrient leaching from turfgrass for BMP
quantification. Other research interests focus on turfgrass
stress physiology and cultural practices.
General Session 3:
Russ Mizell
 Russ
Mizell is a Professor of Entomology with the University
of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and
is located at NFREC-Quincy. Dr. Mizell has research and
extension responsibilities for deciduous fruits, pecan, and
woody landscape plants with focus on the development of
Integrated Pest Management systems. He has authored or
coauthored ~350 publications concerned with IPM programs
including pest biology, biological and chemical control,
host plant resistance, population dynamics and
insect-plant-disease interactions. His current research
focuses on methods of evaluating and enhancing biological
control agents (predators and nematodes), monitoring methods
for deer flies, weevils (fruit, citrus, forestry), the
ecology, behavior and suppression of stink bugs, plant
stress and insect interactions, and the development of
regulatory ecosystem services. Some of his past and current
contributions can be viewed at the websites:
ufinsect.ifas.ufl.edu and
nfrec.ifas.ufl.edu.
General Session 4:
George Kish
 George
Kish collaborates with Florida Extension, other state
and federal agencies, botanical gardens, universities,
nature centers and middle schools to engage citizen
scientist participation in phenology observations. He earned
his B.S. degree in Biology from Drexel University and his
M.S. degree in Environmental Science from Rutgers
University. George is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological
Survey in Tampa, Florida and co-author of the gardening
book, “The Right Native Plants for Dry Places” with a second
gardening book about to be published, “The Right Plants for
Dry Coastal Places: Native Plant Landscaping with Salt
Tolerant Plants in Peninsular Florida” by Richard Wunderlin
and George Kish.
General Session 5:
Rick Schoellhorn
 Rick
Schoellhorn joined the Proven Winners team in 2005 as
Director of New Products. Rick coordinates the US trials of
Proven Winners and works with PW global on global trialing
issues. He is responsible for finding new plants and testing
them via Proven Winners exhaustive trialing program and
working with plant breeders around the world to help them
make headway in developing new crops. From March through
October Rick is in the air and on the road around the globe
looking for the truly best breeding fro Proven Winners.
Over the past twenty years he has worked extensively in the
horticulture industry in a variety of occupations. His
experience includes: 7 years as a college professor at the
University of Florida, 5 years in retail nursery sales, 3
years of golf course maintenance in California, 3 year
retail nursery production and sales in Alaska, 12 years as
sole proprietor of a landscape and interiorscape
installation and design company in Colorado. He has toured
Indonesia, Holland, Germany, Spain, Madeira Island Portugal,
Costa Rica, Japan, and Mexico collecting plants and
consulting with growers.
Dr. Rick Schoellhorn received his M.S. (1992) and Ph.D.
(1996) from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and his
B.S. from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
in 1989.
Rick is the co-author of “Your Florida Guide to Perennials”
(ISBN: 0-8130-2927-9)with Dr. Sydney Park-Brown and
has a CD of original music floating around out there
somewhere called “Under a Midnight Sky” and if you’re lucky
you’ll never hear it…
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