Dr. Scott Hotaling

Publications | Book Chapters

• 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.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Fact Sheets

• Hotaling, S., Schad, J., Narine, L.K, McCann, R.B, (2025). What do Utahns think about global warming and climate change?. Climate Resiliency Factsheet *
• James, C., Becker, K., Hotaling, S., Chandrasekaran, A., Walsworth, T., Belmont, P., (2025). Post-wildfire erosion and sedimentation: An escalating threat of Utah’s fisheries. USU Extension
• Olpin, Q., Becker, K., Hotaling, S., Chandrasekaran, A., Belmont, P., (2025). Wildfire and water security: Post-fire erosion and sedimentation threaten Utah’s reservoirs. USU Extension
• Dutson, L., Becker, K., Stemmler, K., Washa, B., Yocom, L., Chandrasekaran, A., Birch, J., Hotaling, S., (2025). Fuel treatements in the wildland-urban interface: Supporting wildfire-resilient communities in Utah. USU Extension
• Ivans, R., Becker, K., Crump , W., Washa, B., Kogan, L., Hotaling, S., (2025). Sagebrush, Wildfire, and Homeowners Associations: Climate Adaptation Opportunities in Summit County, Utah.
• Cottam, M., Becker, K., Stemmler, K., Poudyal, S., Crump , W., Kogan, L., Hotaling, S., (2025). Reducing Residential Landscape Water Use in Utah: Technologies and Strategies.
• Lambert, L., Becker, K., Pokharel, B., Hotaling, S., (2025). Cloud seeding: Enhancing winter snowpack to bolster Utah’s water supply. USU Extension
• 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

• Bergstrom, A., Carling, G., Hotaling, S., (2025). Glacial versus geomorphic controls on stream temperature and conductivity in a temperate watershed. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
• Cranford, T., Hotaling, S., Wimberger, P., Hannaford, S., Marshall, K., Malison, R., (2025). Living in ice: Examining the effects of temperature on thermal and metabolic physiology of glacier ice worms (Mesenchytraeus solifugus). Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
• Gilbertson, E., Abatzoglou, J., Stanchak, K., Hotaling, S., (2025). Rapid contemporary shrinking and loss of ice-capped summits in the western United States. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
• Brighenti, S., Millar, C., Hotaling, S., (2025). Rocky landforms support cold-spring refugia in warming mountains. Environmental Research Letters
• Sam, B., Surendran, N., Hotaling, S., Desvignes, T., Frandsen, P., Kelley, J., (2025). Temperature and pressure shaped the evolution of antifreeze proteins in the polar and deep sea Zoarcoid fishes. Molecular Biology & Evolution
• Eichert, A., de Almeida, L.H, Du, Y., Duarte, T., Fochetti, R., Hotaling, S., Huo, Q., Jouault, C., Kirkaldy, A.P, Letsch, H., Li, W., López-Rodríguez, M.J, Machingura, J., McCulloch, G., Mo, R., Mtow, S., Pessacq, P., Rippel, M.L, Rivera-Pomar, R., Sproul, J.S, Sarmento, F.R, Sroka, P., Tierno de Figueroa, J.M, Ware, J., Song, H., (2025). Stonefly systematics: past, present, and future. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 9:4, doi: 10.1093/isd/ixaf026
• Losapio, G., Lee, J.R, Fraser, C.I, Gillespie, M.A, Kerr, N.R, Zawierucha, K., Hamilton, T.L, Hotaling, S., Kaufmann, R., Kim, O., Klopsch, C., Liu, Y., Lukashanets, D., Robinson, S.A, Brown, L.E, (2025). Impacts of deglaciation on biodiversity and ecosystem function. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 1:6, 371-385. doi: 10.1038/s44358-025-00049-6
• Hotaling, S., Becker, K., (2025). The Climate Adaptation Intern Program: Training a Next-Generation Workforce While Utah’s Capacity to Respond to Climate Change. Outcomes and Impacts Quarterly
• Almela, P., Elser, J.J, Giersch, J.J, Hotaling, S., Hamilton, T.L, (2025). Influence of snow cover on albedo reduction by snow algae. mBio, 16:2, doi: 10.1128/mbio.03630-24
• 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
• Elser, J.J, Wu, C., González, A.L, Shain, D.H, Smith, H.J, Sommaruga, R., Williamson, C.E, Brahney, J., Hotaling, S., Vanderwall, J., Yu, J., Aizen, V., Aizen, E., Battin, T.J, Camassa, R., Feng, X., Jiang, H., Lu, L., Qu, J.J, Ren, Z., Wen, J., Wen, L., Woods, H.A, Xiong, X., Xu, J., Yu, G., Harper, J.T, Saros, J.E, (2020). Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams.. Global change biology, 26:12, 6644-6656.

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.