Sharon J. Hall

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 in that human activity interacts with the environment.

Early life and education Sharon Hall was raised in Oakland, California. 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.

Career and research 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. Hall's research now focuses on the interactions between human activity and arid ecosystems. She has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, and from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Awards and honors

Nominations

2017-18 Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Life Sciences 2012 Centennial Professorship for excellence in teaching and community service 2006 Centennial Professorship 2003 John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Professorship for excellence in teaching and scholarship, The Colorado College 1998 Gresham Riley Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Colorado College 1996 Earth Systems Science Doctoral Fellow, NASA 1994 Graduate Research Fellow, NSF

Matson, Pamela, et al. “The Globalization of Nitrogen Deposition: Consequences for Terrestrial Ecosystems.” AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, vol. 31, no. 2, 2002, p. 113 Hall, Sharon J., and Pamela A. Matson. “Nitrogen Oxide Emissions after Nitrogen Additions in Tropical Forests.” Nature, vol. 400, no. 6740, July 1999, pp. 152–155., doi:10.1038/22094. She is also part of the governing board for the Ecological Society of America.