Clark Gantzer
University of Missouri
For distinguished accomplishments and service to Sigma Xi, as well as significant contributions to the Society’s mission and service as President of the University of Missouri chapter.
Service to Sigma Xi
Clark served as secretary, vice president, and president of the University of Missouri Sigma Xi chapter and as a board member representing the SE Region of Sigma Xi from 2011-2015. He has served as a member of the “Monie A. Ferst” award, diversity, program, and audit review committees. He has been a perennial judge for student presentations at Sigma Xi's annual conferences.
Biography
Clark J. Gantzer, Emeritus Professor at the University of Missouri, received a doctorate from the University of Minnesota. After graduation, he had a year post-doctoral at the national sedimentation laboratory in Oxford, MS. He began as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri in 1982, granted tenure in 1988, and made a full professor in 2006. He was elected to Sigma Xi from Missouri in 1987.
Dr. Gantzer has conducted research and taught in the area of soil and water conservation and management. His teaching activities included ecology and renewable resource management, introduction to environmental science, soil & water management & conservation, and environmental land use management. His research includes: 1) measurement and prediction of soil erosion, 2) measurement of soil structure and its relationship to soil productivity and quality using pattern recognition analysis of x-ray computed tomography (CT) to quantify soil structure, and 3) adaption of soil management methods that maintain or improve soil productivity and quality to increase profitability while decreasing environmental impacts of land use.
Dr. Gantzer is a member of the Soil Science Society of America where he served as an associate editor, the American Society of Agronomy, and the Soil and Water Conservation Society, where he serving as a board member and member of the science and policy committee as well as an associate editor of The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. He is a fellow of this society. He has advised 40+ graduate students, and his work has led to publication of 100+ refereed papers in conservation.