Jon Penberthy

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Jon Penberthy

Experimentalist

Photograph of Jon Penberthy

Contact details

Email

jonathon.penberthy@dpi.qld.gov.au

Qualifications
  • Diploma of Horticulture (Turf)
Areas of expertise
  • Greenkeeping
  • Applied research
  • Industry liaison
Background

Jon Penberthy has been employed at the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&F) Redlands Research Station since February 2007 as an experimentalist and greenkeeper, working with the many different warm season turfgrasses.

His background in the greenkeeping industry has brought a wealth of experience to the team. Mr Penberthy worked as a golf course superintendent in Queensland for 16 years, in addition to seven years at golf clubs in Victoria.

He has been heavily involved in various industry bodies at executive level and sat on various industry advisory boards.
Awards, honours and memberships
  • Golf Course Superintendents Association of Queensland (former president)
  • Australian Golf Course Superintendents Association (former treasurer)
  • Queensland Turfgrass Foundation (former director)
  • awarded the Australian Golf Course Superintendents Association´s Claude Crockford Environmental Award in 1997
  • awarded the Queensland Golf Industry Environmental Award in 2003.

Current research

Mr Penberthy manages DPI&F´s purpose-built greens research facility and is evaluating the performance of hybrid couch and seashore paspalum cultivars for greens use. He also works on other trials including the performance of greens grasses in regional areas and phytotoxicity testing.

Page maintained by Janelle Dahler
Last reviewed 22 April 2008

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