Authors

Jay Ham is a Professor in the Colorado State University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences. His overall research interests include Environmental physics and micrometeorology; Instrumentation development; Remote sensing; Soil-plant-water relations; Irrigation management.

Deana Namuth-Covert is a Professor in the Soil and Crop Sciences Department at Colorado State University and is the Executive Director for the College of Agricultural Sciences Upskilling Program.  She leads teams to construct creative approaches in distance education, while expanding the impact of research, teaching and workforce development efforts in agriculture.  She is optimistic about the use of online technologies to simultaneously empower individuals, strengthen local communities and resolve complex global challenges.

Tamla Blunt is a Plant Pathologist and an emeriti faculty member at Colorado State University in the Agricultural Biology department. She currently provides instructional design support for the Upskilling program and teaches Online Horticulture Pathology classes and Food Safety Upskilling badge courses at CSU. She is familiar with a variety of plants that include greenhouse, forest, landscape, turf, and cropping situations and the associated disorders that accompany many of these plants.  She has also taught Landscape Plant Health Care, Plant Propagation, and Pesticide Safety and Use at Front Range Community College campuses in Westminster and Fort Collins, CO.

Acknowledgements

Initial pilot development of this content was supported in part by funding from SyncUp Colorado, administered by Colorado State University (2022).

This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number 2023-38640-39571 through the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under project number WPDP24-021. USDA is an equal opportunity employer and service provider. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.