Clark Gantzer is one of 10 2022 Fellows in Sigma Xi, an international scientific research honor society of science and engineering. Founded in 1886, the organization has more than 200 Nobel Prize winners and honors excellence in scientific investigation and encourages cooperation among researchers in science and engineering fields. Fellows are awarded by their peers for their significant contributions to research or development, outreach, teaching and curricular innovation, mentorship, science advocacy and leadership.

Gantzer is a professor emeritus of soil science in the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. His research and teaching involve soil and water conservation, applied soil physics, ecology and renewable resource management.

Recognition of Gantzer and the other nine 2022 Fellows will take place at the inaugural International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE), taking place Nov. 3-6, in Alexandria, Virginia.