John A. Hall, Ph.D.

Bio

John joined Boise State University in March 2020 as a Research Program Manager, administratively reporting to the Division of Research and Economic Development but assigned full-time to the Quantum DNA research group. In this capacity, he assists the group with managing its various federal research awards, which involves report writing, assessing and pursuing new funding opportunities, outreach, budget management, personnel management, and developing and implementing management frameworks for the group’s data management and intellectual property needs. In addition, John mentors some of the group’s undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral research fellows.

Prior to coming to Boise State and since April 2016, John was the Program Director for the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) located at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, a federal government extramural research program that addresses the wildland fire science needs of managers, practitioners, and policy-makers. Previous to this role, he managed the Resource Conservation and Climate Change program area for the Department of Defense’s (DoD), Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) for 10 years. While at DoD, he also managed large interdisciplinary teams to create actionable science for end-users and represented DoD on the 3rd National Climate Assessment. He was a Convening Lead Author on one of its chapters. In combination, these positions provided John almost 14 years of program management experience related to federal research programs and managing large interdisciplinary projects. Earlier in his career, John was the Fort Benning Project Manager and Sonoran Desert Program Manager for The Nature Conservancy. As a result, he has had significant experience in developing and managing large-scale natural resource planning efforts on federal lands and integrating execution and outcomes across many lines of research to better serve end-user needs. Finally, John is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a nuclear-trained officer in the U.S. submarine force. His graduate degrees are from Washington State University in Biology (MS) and Zoology (Ph.D.).

Education

• Ph.D. in Zoology from Washington State University (December 1993).
• M.S. in Biology from Washington State University (December 1985).
• B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy (June 1977).

Publications

Cervantes-Salguero, K, A Biaggne, JM Youngsman, BM Ward, YC Kim, L Li, JA Hall, WB Knowlton, E Graugnard, and W Kuang, Strategies for Controlling the Spatial Orientation of Single Molecules Tethered on DNA Origami Templates Physisorbed on Glass Surfaces: Intercalation and Stretching. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23, 7690 (2022). doi: 10.3390/ijms23147690.

Fleishman, E., D.E. Blockstein, J.A. Hall, M.B. Mascia, M.A. Rudd, J.M. Scott, W.J. Sutherland, and 23 others. 2011. Top 40 priorities for science to inform conservation and management policy in the United States. BioScience 61:290−300.

Goble, D.D. J.A. Wiens, J.M. Scott, T.D. Male, and J.A. Hall. 2012. Conservation-reliant species. BioScience 62:869–873.

Hall, J.A. 1988. Early chick mobility and brood movements in the Forster’s tern (Sterna forsteri). Journal of Field Ornithology 59:247–251.

Hall, J.A. 1989. Aspects of Forster’s tern (Sterna forsteri) reproduction on cobblestone islands in southcentral Washington. Northwest Science 63:90–95.

Hall, J.A. 1998. Scaphiopus intermontanus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 650: 1–17.

Hall, J.A. 1998 (Printed 1999). Vocal repertoire of Forster’s tern (Sterna forsteri). Colonial Waterbirds 21:388–405.

Hall, J.A., M. Blair, J.L. Buzier, D.L. Gustafson, B. Holland, S.C. Moser, and A.M. Waple. 2014. Chapter 30. Sustained Assessment: A New Vision for Future U.S. Assessments. In: Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J.M. Melillo, T.C. Richmond,
and G.W. Yohe (eds.). U.S. Global Change Research Program. 841 pp. doi:10.7930/J0Z31WJ2.

Hall, J.A. and E. Fleishman. 2010. Demonstration as a means to translate conservation science into practice. Conservation Biology 24:120–127.

Hall, J.A. and J.H. Larsen, Jr. 1998. Postembryonic ontogeny of the spadefoot toad, Scaphiopus intermontanus (Anura: Pelobatidae): Skeletal morphology. Journal of Morphology 238:179–244.

Hall, J.A., J.H. Larsen, Jr., and R.E. Fitzner. 1997. Postembryonic ontogeny of the spadefoot toad, Scaphiopus intermontanus (Anura: Pelobatidae): External morphology. Herpetological Monograph 11:124–178.

Hall, J.A., J.H. Larsen, Jr., and R.E. Fitzner. 2002. Morphology of the prometamorphic larva of the spadefoot toad, Scaphiopus intermontanus (Anura: Pelobatidae), with an emphasis on the lateral line system and mouthparts. Journal of Morphology 252:114–130.

Hall, J.A., J.H. Larsen, Jr., D.E. Miller, and R.E. Fitzner. 1995. Discrimination of kin- and diet- based cues by larval spadefoot toads, Scaphiopus intermontanus (Anura: Pelobatidae), under laboratory conditions. Journal of Herpetology 29:233–243.

Hall, J.A. and R. Marshall. 2002. Biodiversity management framework for federal lands: implications for ecosystem-based approaches to monitoring. Pages 58–59 in W.L. Halvorson and B.S. Gebow (eds.), Meeting Resource Management Information Needs: Fourth Conference on Research and Resource Management in the Southwestern Deserts, Extended Abstracts. U.S. Geological Survey, Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Hall, J.A. P.F. Steblein, and C.C. Hardy. 2018. Living with wildland fire in America: Building new bridges between policy, science, and management. Wildfire 27.3:16‒19.

Hall, J.A. and D.E. Miller. 1991. Orientation to the nest site by incubating Forster’s terns (Sterna forsteri) in a landmark-sparse habitat. Northwestern Naturalist 72:70–72.

Hall, J.A., C.P. Weaver. J. Obeysekera, M. Crowell, R.M. Horton, R.E. Kopp, J. Marburger, D.C. Marcy, A. Parris, W.V. Sweet, W.C. Veatch, and K.D. White. 2019. Rising sea levels: Helping decision-makers confront the inevitable. Coastal Management 47:127–150.

McNicholl, M.K., P.E. Lowther, and J.A. Hall. 2001. Forster’s Tern (Sterna forsteri). In the Birds of North America, No. 595. (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelohia, PA.

Roy, SK, OA Mass, DL Kellis, CK Wilson, JA Hall, B Yurke, and WB Knowlton, Exciton Delocalization and Scaffold Stability in Bridged Nucleotide-Substituted, DNA Duplex-Templated Cyanine Aggregates, Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125(50), 13670–13684  (2021). doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c07602.

Russo, E.J., and J.A. Hall. 2012. Section 4.5 Implications for Coastal Military Installations and Readiness. Pages 92‒97 in Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities: A Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment, V. Burkett and M. Davidson (eds.). National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and Island Press, Washington, D.C. 150 pp.

Weaver, C.P., R.J. Lempert, C. Brown, J.A. Hall, D. Revell, and D. Sarewitz. 2013. Improving the contribution of climate model information to decision-making: the value and demands of robust decision frameworks. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 4:39–60.

Honors, Awards, and Professional Activities