“The golden rules of baseball — don’t have fun, don’t pimp home runs, don’t play with character. Those are white rules. Don’t do anything fancy. Take it down a notch. Keep it all in the box.
It’s no coincidence that some of my best years came when I played under Davey Johnson, whose No. 1 line to me was: ‘Desi, go out there and express yourself.’ If, in other years, I’d just allowed myself to be who I was — to play free and the way I was born to play, would I have been better?
If we didn’t force Black Americans into white America’s box, think of how much we could thrive.“
Colorado Rockies outfielder Ian Desmond (June 2020)
Our team explores ecological patterns and processes in human-dominated ecosystems. We conduct basic and use-inspired research through multi-disciplinary collaborations to inform environmental policy, protect and restore wildlands, and enhance human benefits from nature.
Latest News from the Hall Lab
✿ Hats off to Kinley’s article in the January 2021 issue of The Wildlifer!
The Wildlifer is a publication of the AZ Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Check out the full article here: https://aztws.com/winter2021wildlifer/ Congratulations, Kinley!
✿ Institutional transformation for inclusion: Interview with S. Hall for ASU Knowledge Enterprise Bulletin
March 2, 2020 Charting the way: How ASU’s inclusive charter is shaping university culture Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences was recently awarded Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion ( JEDI) seed grants from The College of Liberal Arts and...
✿ It’s time for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Life Sciences
The Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Initiative in the School of Life Sciences is hard at work! We've received funding for inclusive curriculum revisions for high enrollment courses (Inclusive Teaching Fellowships) and for faculty inclusivity/bystander...
✿ Welcome Briana, Gabby, and Juan, our new WAESO Research Fellows!
We're pleased to introduce you the newest members of our team, Briana Thomas, Gabriela Goncalves, and Juan Pablo Paredes-Sanchez. These students joined our group as 2021 WAESO Research Fellows. This semester they'll be working with Hall Lab researchers Aleigh...
✿ New paper! Globalization of nitrogen deposition and ecosystem response: A 20-year perspective
I'm thrilled to share my new paper on global nitrogen deposition and ecosystem response, which is to be published in the 50th Anniversary Collection of the journal, Ambio. This was a fun article to write, as a 20-year look-back on the field and how its progressed...
Former home page quotes
“If … you let people tell you what they’re thinking, let them tell you what’s going on – and then search into your mental database to find out if there’s anything that we’ve done to help solve that problem – then maybe you can have a conversation. But to walk in and say, ‘You need to think this, and this is what I believe is the right thing to think’, that switch goes off.” Montana Senator Jon Tester, on serving rural communities (NYT December 2020)
“The personal is political. The fact that you have the luxury as a white male to write all your poems about being lost in the woods, that you don’t have to interrogate race and gender, is a political statement in and of itself.” Amanda Gorman, 2020 Inaugural Poet Laureate, as quoted in the Harvard Crimson (2018)
“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” — Representative John Lewis, 2018
“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2015
Recent papers
2021. Hall, S.J., K.A. Lohse, and P.A. Matson. Nitrogen deposition and ecosystem response: A twenty-year perspective. Ambio 50th Anniversary Special Issue. Ambio, 10.1007/s13280-020-01465-y.
2020. Dai, D.A Roberts, D.A Stow, L. An, S.J. Hall, S.T. Yabiku, and P.C. Kyriakidis. 2020. Mapping understory invasive plant species with field and remotely sensed data in Chitwan, Nepal. Remote Sensing of Environment, 250(1): 112037.
2020. T.L.E. Trammell, D.E. Pataki, J. Cavender-Bares, P. Groffman, S.J. Hall, J.B. Heffernan, S.E. Hobbie, J.L. Morse, C. Neill, K.C. Nelson. Urban soil carbon and nitrogen converge at a continental scale. Ecological Monographs, in press.
2020. Padullés Cubino, J., C. Neill, D.E. Pataki, J.M. Grove, J. Cavender-Bares, K.L. Larson, K. Nelson, Wheeler, M.L. Avolio, P.M. Groffman, S. E. Hobbie, S.J. Hall, T.L.E. Trammell. Linking yard plant diversity to homeowners’ landscaping priorities across the U.S. Landscape and Urban Planning, 196(103730).
