Stewart Brown is Team Leader for Sportsturf at Myerscough College, in Lancashire, England, which is one of the largest providers of sportsturf education in Europe. He has been employed within the sportsturf and amenity horticulture indsutries for over twenty-eight years and is a researcher, a consultant, a regular contributor to the trade press, and a frequent speaker at events and conferences. Stewart is author of Sports Turf & Amenity Grassland Management [Crowood 2005], is a Fellow of both the Institute of Groundmanship and the Higher Education Academy, and is a member of the Institute of Learning. Resident - Lancashire