Press Release

NREL Celebrates the New Francis Clark Conference Room

All interested members of the CSU community are cordially invited to a ceremony in honor of Dr. Francis Clark at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL), B215 Natural and Environmental Sciences Building, on Thursday, February 26, 2004, from 2-3:00 pm.

NREL is proud to host this celebration, which marks the official renaming of its conference room as the Francis Clark Conference Room, in honor of Dr. Clark’s many contributions to ecosystem science, CSU, NREL, the Warner College of Natural Resources, Larimer County and the City of Fort Collins.

The 93 year old Dr. Clark is a world renowned microbial ecologist and recipient of the Agricultural Research Service’s Hall of Fame Award and the Soil Science Society’s Distinguished Career Award. He has authored several books and over 175 journal articles, and has collaborated over the years with many NREL and CSU scientists. Among many important contributions to CSU, Dr. Clark and his late wife Evelyn established the Francis Clark Soil Biology Scholarship fund at NREL, an endowment which has supported 13 graduate students in environmental science since its inception in 1998.

Please come help us honor Dr. Clark on the 26th!

Related links: Download Biography of Dr. Clark