About

Scott Hall, MD, CAQSM, is a physician affiliated with the University of Utah Health, specializing in sports medicine, family medicine, and occupational health. He is recognized for his attentive and thorough approach to patient care, emphasizing clear communication, shared decision-making, and personalized treatment plans. Dr. Hall has received high patient ratings for his kindness, knowledge, and ability to listen carefully to individual concerns, demonstrating a strong commitment to patient-centered care. His clinical practice includes locations at the Sugar House Health Center and Centerville Health Center, where he provides comprehensive medical services, ultrasound diagnostics, and injury management. Throughout his practice, he is noted for his professionalism, accessibility, and dedication to improving health outcomes through careful diagnosis and tailored treatment strategies.

Research topics

• Environmental science
• Environmental chemistry
• Soil science
• Chemistry
• Ecology
• Geology
• Biology
• Earth science
• Organic chemistry
• Materials science

Selected publications

• Where and why do particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) differ among diverse soils?

  Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2022 · 212 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Environmental chemistry
  • Environmental science
  • Chemistry
  DOI

• Iron-mediated organic matter decomposition in humid soils can counteract protection

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 533 citations

  • Environmental chemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Environmental science

  limitation is common in humid soils, so Fe does not intrinsically protect OM; rather reactive Fe phases require their own physiochemical protection to contribute to OM persistence.

  DOI

• Molecular trade-offs in soil organic carbon composition at continental scale

  Nature Geoscience · 2020 · 155 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Environmental science
  • Environmental chemistry
  • Earth science

  The molecular composition of soil organic carbon remains contentious. Microbial-, plant- and fire-derived compounds may each contribute, but whether they vary predictably among ecosystems remains unclear. Here we present carbon functional groups and molecules from a diverse spectrum of North American surface mineral soils, collected primarily from the National Ecological Observatory Network and quantified by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and a molecular mixing model. We find that soils vary widely in relative contributions of carbohydrate, lipid, protein, lignin and char-like carbon, but each compound class has similar overall abundance. Ninety percent of the variance in carbon composition can be explained by three principal component axes representing a trade-off between lignin and protein, a trade-off between carbohydrate and char, and lipids. Reactive aluminium, crystalline iron oxides and pH plus overlying organic horizon thickness—predictors that are all related to climate—best explain variation along each respective axis. Together, our data point to continental-scale trade-offs in soil carbon molecular composition that are linked to environmental and geochemical variables known to predict carbon mass concentrations. Controversies regarding the genesis of soil carbon and its potential responses to global change can be partially reconciled by considering diverse ecosystem properties that drive complementary persistence mechanisms. Environmental factors influence the molecular composition of carbon in soils across continental gradients, according to analyses of North American mineral soils.

  DOI

Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: MSB-ECA: Resolving controls on lignin decomposition at the continental scale to reconcile classical and modern paradigms of soil organic matter

  NSF · $244k · 2018–2022

Frequent coauthors

• Whendee L. Silver

  University of California, Berkeley

  28 shared

• Wenjuan Huang

  Tarim University

  20 shared

• D. R. Bowling

  University of Utah

  18 shared

• Samantha R. Weintraub

  National Ecological Observatory Network

  17 shared

• Chenglong Ye

  Nanjing Agricultural University

  15 shared

• Kenneth E. Hammel

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  14 shared

• Nathaniel C. Lawrence

  Savanna Institute

  10 shared

• Vitaliy I. Timokhin

  Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

  9 shared

Education

• M.D.

  Ohio State University College of Medicine

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