2006 Assembly of Delegates:
Southeast Regional Representative to the Committee on Nominations

November 2-5, 2006
Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center
Detroit, Michigan

Name: Clark J. Gantzer

Present Position: Professor Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences
Organization: University of Missouri-Columbia

Address: Department of Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences
302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building
The School of Natural Resources
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211

Telephone: (573) 882-0611
FAX: (573) 884-5070
E-mail: gantzerC@missouri.edu

Chapter Affiliation: University of Missouri at Columbia

Candidate's Statement: As a research scientist and a teacher working on environmental topics, Sigma Xi has the responsibility to encourage and promote research science in young students. To that end I have been working to attract students to Sigma Xi at the University of Missouri-Columbia by implementing an "Outstanding High School Science Teaching Award" in 2006. I would like to serve the society by working to attract new students to science, and environmental science in particular by working to enhance the Sigma Xi Educational Programs.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: Sigma Xi Full Member (1987) Univ. of Missouri-Columbia; President - Univ. of Missouri-Columbia Chapter (2004-present); National Delegate 2005; Other: Member - Soil Sci. Soc. of Am. (SSSA, 1974-present); SSSA Associate Editor Div S6 (2002-present); Young Scholar Award Committee (2004-present); Co-Chaired SSSA Symposium on Soil Structure (2004); Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS, 1974-); SWCS Regional Conference Planning Committee (2004-2005); SWCS Chap. Scholarship Committee Chairman (1987-1995); Advisor Student Chapter SWCS (1998-2006); Member - Am. Soc. of Agronomy (ASA, 1974-); ASA - Environmental Res. Award Committee, 1995-1996.

Biographical Information: Gantzer, Clark James, Soil Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences. Personal Data: born Minneapolis, MN, December, Dec 10,49; m 88. Education: University of Minnesota, BS 74; MS 76; PhD 80. Professional Experience: Postdoctoral., Nat. Sedimentation Lab, 81; Asst. Prof. Soil Science Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, 82-88; Research leave - Silsoe College, Silsoe, England Lab. 91; Visiting Professor - Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea, Jul-Aug, 1996; Assoc. Prof Soil Science Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, 88-05; Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Soc. in Agriculture, Missouri Chapter - Senior Research Award, 2004; Prof of Soil Science (2006-present). Member: Soil Sci. Soc. of Am. (SSSA), SSSA Associate Editor Div S6, (2002-present), Am Soc. of Agronomy, Intern. Soil Sci. Soc., Soil and Water Conserv. Soc., Gamma Sigma Delta, Sigma Xi. Research: Development of improved soil management leading to sustainable systems of agriculture. Specific areas of research interest include study of management effects on soil and study of relationships between soil productivity and soil properties. Mailing Address: 302 ABNR Bldg. Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211.

Name: Lawrence James Rouse

Present Position: Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences
Organization: Louisiana State University

Address: Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
USA

Telephone: 225-578-2953
FAX: 225-578-2520
E-mail: lrouse@lsu.edu

Chapter Affiliation: Louisiana State University

Candidates Statment: I am the present representative of the Southeast Region on the Committee on Nominations. I was selected to finish out the term of Ann Williams who was elected to the Society Board of Directors. The nominations committee is responsible for selecting nominees for the office of President and Treasurer in appropriate years. If selected to a full term, I will continue to work with other members of the committee to nominate distinguished research scholars for consideration by the membership for these important positions. I am interested in and will welcome suggestions of potential nominees from members of the Southeast Region, since I do not know all the distinguished scholars in our region in the many fields of scientific research.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: Member of Sigma Xi and the Louisiana State University Chapter since 1976; Chair of the chapter's student grant-in-aid committee 1997 - 2001; Chapter Treasurer 2001 - 2003; Vice President 2003; President 2003 - 2004; Past President 2004 - 2005, Southeast Geographic Region Representative - Sigma Xi's Committee on Nominations 2006.

Biographical Information: B.S. - Physics, Loyola University, New Orleans, 1964; Ph.D. - Physics, Louisiana State University, 1972; Faculty, Coastal Studies Institute and Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, 1972 to Present; Director, Coastal Marine Institute, Louisiana State University, 1998 to Present; Chair, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, 2003 to 2006; Board of Directors, Iberville Parish (county) Chamber of Commerce, 2004 to Present; Board of Directors, Eastside Community Health Center (a rural health clinic servicing primarily low income residents), 2004 to Present. My present research interests are in circulation within estuaries, flow along inner continental shelves, and the exchange between these two regions. As part of these circulation processes, I am interested in the sources, pathways, and fates of material, particularly sediment, transported by the water. My research is generally multidisciplinary, cooperating with other scientists who have expertise in such fields as wetlands ecology, nutrient cycling, ichthyoplankton, numerical modeling, and coastal geomorphic processes.