Sharon J. Hall | |
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| Born | Oakland, California |
| Alma mater | Stanford University Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ecosystem Ecology |
| Institutions | Arizona State University |
| Website | https://halllab.asu.edu |
Sharon J. Hall is an ecosystem ecologist and associate professor at the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on ecosystem ecology and the ways that human activity interacts with the environment. [1]
Sharon Hall was raised in Oakland, California. [2] Her undergraduate education was spent at Stanford University where she received a Bachelor of Science in biological sciences. She then went on to pursue a Master of Education at Harvard University, and a PhD in soil and ecosystem science at the University of California, Berkeley. Not long after receiving her PhD, Hall was an assistant professor in the environmental program at Colorado College, teaching the school's first biogeochemistry course. [1] Currently she is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where she is the director of the Environmental Life Sciences PhD program and the senior sustainability scientist for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. [3]
Sharon Hall and her research team are focused on studying the ways that human activity and ecosystems interact with one another. This includes examining the impact of urban air pollution on ecosystems and studying the implications of different land management practices in urban, residential, and agricultural settings. [3]
Hall worked with Pamela Matson while at Stanford to understand the response of nitrogen trace gas emissions from tropical forests to nitrogen deposition; [4] [5] as well as to publish a comprehensive look at how nitrogen inputs affect terrestrial ecosystems. [6] Hall's research now focuses on the interactions between human activity and arid ecosystems. [3] She has done extensive research with the CAP LTER (Central Arizona-Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research Site, part of the larger LTER network funded by the National Science Foundation) and is on the CAPIV Executive Committee. [7] She has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, [8] [9] [10] and from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. [11]
Hall has been part of the creation of over 90 publications, several of which have been cited hundreds of times. [14]
Hall is on the science advisory board for the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy Field Institute, where she offers scientific expertise, heads research projects and gets support from volunteers at the institute. [15] She is also part of the governing board for the Ecological Society of America. [1]
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