Scott Hotaling
Watershed Sciences
Assistant Professor | Climate Resiliency Specialist

Expertise
global change biology, climate adaptation, natural resource management, endangered species
Awards
Innovator of the Year, 2024
USU Office of Sustainability
- Hotaling, S., (2024). Utah’s snowpack in decline: Bracing for a future with less snow: Report to the Governor and Legislature on Utah's Land, Water, and Air.
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Fact Sheets
- Hotaling, S., Becker, K.M, Narine, L.K, Schad, J., McCann, R.B, Howe, P., (2024). What do Utahns think about global warming and climate change?.
- Smith, M., Becker, K., Hotaling, S., (2024). Climate change and the Logan River: Past, present, and future. USU Extension
- Clark, C., Becker, K., Wagner, K.M, Hotaling, S., (2024). Policies and programs for water-wise residential landscaping in Utah. USU Extension
- Storrud, S., Becker, K., Hotaling, S., (2024). Artificial carbon sequestration in Utah. USU Extension
- Michaels, K., Becker, K., Lamm, A., Hotaling, S., (2024). Cap-and-trade carbon pricing in Utah: challenges and potential impact. USU Extension
- Cameron, R., Becker, K., Hotaling, S., (2024). Could a carbon tax improve Utah’s air quality and mitigate climate change?. USU Extension
- Hotaling, S., Becker, K., (2024). Recent climate change in Utah, 1870-2023. USU Extension
- Erwin, I., Becker, K., Singleton, P., Hotaling, S., (2024). Sustainable transportation: Transforming Utah through community action. USU Extension
- Francis, C., Becker, K., Hotaling, S., Yost, M., (2024). Water Management, Irrigation Companies, and the Great Salt Lake: Balancing needs for Agriculture and the Environment Amidst a Changing Climate. USU Extension
- Hotaling, S., Becker, K., Morriss, M., (2024). Rock glaciers in Utah. USU Extension
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Tronstad, L., Lindsteadt, A., Hotaling, S., (2024). Integrating historical and contemporary data for narrow-foot hygrotus diving beetle (Hygrotus diversipes Leech, 1966): perspectives studying invertebrates of management and conservation concern. Western North American Naturalist
- Preston, D., Hotaling, S., Errigo, I., Frandsen, P., Price, T., Hamilton, T., Anderson, K., Yevak, S., Morse, J., (2024). Influence of water source on alpine stream community structure: linking morphological and metabarcoding approaches. Aquatic Sciences
- Almela, P., Elser, J., Giersch, J., Hotaling, S., Rebbeck, V., Hamilton, T., (2024). Laboratory experiments suggests limited impact of increased nitrogen deposition on snow algae blooms. Environmental Microbiology Reports
- Jorgenson, K., Hotaling, S., Tronstad, L., Finn, D., Collins, S., (2024). Hydrology and trophic flexibility structure alpine stream food webs in the Teton Range, Wyoming, USA. Ecosphere
- Eichert, A., Sproul, J., Birrell, J., Hotaling, S., Ware, J., Frandsen, P., (2024). An unusually large genome from an unusually large stonefly: A chromosome-length genome assembly for the giant salmonfly, Pteronarcys californica (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae). Journal of Heredity
- Frandsen, P., Holzenthal, R., Espeland, M., Hotaling, S., Pauls, S., (2024). Phylogenomics recovers multiple origins of portable case making in caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera), nature’s underwater architects. Proceeding of the Royal Society B
- Hotaling, S., Boersma, J., Paprocki, N., Wimberger, P., (2024). Human and Wildlife Use of Mountain Glacier Habitat in Western North America. Northwest Science, 94:1
- Crowley, L., Hotaling, S., (2024). The genome sequence of the oak bush-cricket, Meconema thalassinum (De Geer, 1773). Wellcome Open Research
- Tronstad, L., Oleksy, I., Preston, D., Gianniny, G., Hotaling, S., (2024). Despite a century of warming, increased snowfall has buffered the ice phenology of North America’s largest high-elevation lake against climate change. Environmental Research Letters
- Hotaling, S., Price, T.L, Hamilton, T.L, (2022). Summer Dynamics of Microbial Diversity on a Mountain Glacier.. mSphere, 7:6, e0050322.
- Kawahara, A., Storer, C., Markee, A., Plotkin, D., Heckenhauer, J., Hotaling, S., Pauls, S., Stewart, R., Tojo, K., Frandsen, P., (2022). Long-read HiFi sequencing correctly assembles repetitive heavy fibroin silk genes in new moth and caddisfly genomes.. GigaScience
- Green, M.D, Tronstad, L.M, Giersch, J.J, Shah, A.A, Fallon, C.E, Blevins, E., Kai, T.R, Muhlfeld, C.C, Finn, D.S, Hotaling, S., (2022). Stoneflies in the genus Lednia (Plecoptera: Nemouridae): sentinels of climate change impacts on mountain stream biodiversity. Biodiversity and Conservation, 31:2, 353-377.
- Hotaling, S., Deemer, B.R, Poulson-Ellestad, K., Falkenberg, L.J, (2022). Taking steps to address inequities in open-access publishing through an early career publication honor. Limnology And Oceanography Letters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | MultiMedia
Video
- Hotaling, S., (2024). Why Are Washington’s Mountains Shrinking?. *
- Hotaling, S., (2024). Rock Glaciers: A Climate Resilient Water Source in Mountain Ecosystems?. *
- Hotaling, S., (2024). A day in the life: Studying rock glaciers and the streams coming from them. *
- Hotaling, S., (2024). Studying Mountain Streams in the Tetons: Skillet Glacier. *
- Hotaling, S., (2024). What lives on a mountain glacier? We used trail cameras to find out.. *
- Hotaling, S., (2024). Ice in the desert: Stream ecology in Utah’s alpine zone. *
- Hotaling, S., (2024). Repeat Photos of Glacier Recession. *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Extension
Climate Adaptation Intern Program, 2023 - Ongoing
Mountain Futures, 2023 - Ongoing
Climate Resiliency Education & Outreach, 2022 - Ongoing