Derf Soller
Soller joined the Green Section staff as an agronomist in the Northwest Region in 2008, and is making Turf Advisory Service visits in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and Utah.
Between 1998 and 2006, Soller served as the grow-in superintendent and later the golf course superintendent at the Jack Nicklaus Signature 27-hole Breckenridge Golf Club in Breckenridge, Colorado. Prior to that, he was involved for three years with the design, construction, grow-in, and establishment of the Old Works Golf Course, a Nicklaus Signature golf course and the first course to be built on an EPA Superfund site. He also was the assistant golf course superintendent at the Breckenridge Golf Club.
Dr. Jill Schroeder
Dr. Jill Schroeder is a Weed Scientist at New Mexico State University. Her fields of interest include weed management in irrigated cropping systems of New Mexico including chile peppers, cotton, wheat, corn and grain sorghum; herbicide persistence and soil interactions. Projects include interdisciplinary, cooperative research to identify interactions between weeds and other pests. Some of her current projects include Chile/nutsedge/Nematode Interactions and invasive characteristics of scouringrush on irrigation canals. Jill is also serving as weed science subject matter expert at EPA-Office of Pesticide Programs in Washinton D.C. on behalf of the Weed Science Society of America.
Jim Gray
Jim Gray is the executive director of the Industry Task Force II on 2,4-D Research Data, a role he has held since November 2007. He has more than two decades of professional and regulatory experience in the agriculture and biotechnology industries.
Gray worked extensively in corporate settings at Fortune 100 level companies prior to joining the Task Force and is a recognized and trusted resource for corporations, grower boards, state-level departments of agriculture and various state legislatures and regulatory bodies across the country.
His career experience spans the agricultural, food, feed and bio-energy industries, dealing with a variety of stewardship issues on topics ranging from traits, seed and chemical inputs, crop production, ethanol, biodiesel, feed and food processing and more. He worked with Bayer CropScience as the state affairs manager, with the Western Crop Protection Association as the director of regulatory and environmental affairs, and as a production manager and sales representative with a variety of prominent agricultural and chemical companies.
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