Scott Hotaling

Scott Richard Hotaling is an American zoologist , geneticist, and climate researcher .

Career

Scott Hotaling is from North Carolina . He studied zoology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh , North Carolina and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in May 2010 . In August 2017 he received his PhD under David W. Weisrock at the University of Kentucky in Lexington , Kentucky for Ph.D. Since then he has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Washington State University's Kelley Lab , which researches evolutionary genetics and the adaptation of organisms to extreme environments. Hotaling names the research of life in cold regions, its adaptation to these environments and its future in a time of global warming and the decline of the cryosphere as the focus of his work .

Among Hotaling's publications , the first description of the three Malagasy lemurs Microcebus manitatra , Ganzhorns Mausmaki and Microcebus boraha , which he published together with nine colleagues in 2016, stands out. His research also focuses on Mesenchytraeus solifugus , a North American glacier with little bristles , the alpine stonefly Lednia tetonica , which is endemic in the Teton Ranges, and extremophilic microorganisms .

Hotaling has been a landscape photographer since 2007. His work has been published in numerous national and international journals.

Publications (selection)

• Scott Hotaling, Mary E. Foley, Nicolette M. Lawrence, Jose Bocanegra, Marina B. Blanco, Rodin Rasoloarison, Peter M. Kappeler , Meredith A. Barrett, Anne D. Yoder, David W. Weisrock: Species discovery and validation in a cryptic radiation of endangered primates: coalescent-based species delimitation in Madagascar's mouse lemurs. In: Molecular Ecology 2016, Volume 25, pp. 2029-2045, doi : 10.1111 / mec.13604 (first description of three lemurs).
• Scott Hotaling, Eran Hood and Trinity L. Hamilton: Microbial ecology of mountain glacier ecosystems: biodiversity, ecological connections, and implications of a warming climate . In: Environmental Microbiology 2017, Volume 19, No. 8, pp. 2935-2948, doi : 10.1111 / 1462-2920.13766 .
• Scott Hotaling, Debra S. Finn, J. Joseph Giersch, David W. Weisrock and Dean Jacobsen: Climate change and alpine stream biology: progress, challenges, and opportunities for the future . In: Biological Reviews 2017, Volume 92, No. 4, pp. 2024-2045, doi : 10.1111 / brv.12319 .
• Scott Hotaling, Corey R. Quackenbush, Julian Bennett-Ponsford, Daniel D. New, Lenin Arias-Rodriguez, Michael Tobler and Joanna L. Kelley: Bacterial Diversity in Replicated Hydrogen Sulfide-Rich Streams . In: Microbial Ecology 2018, doi : 10.1007 / s00248-018-1237-6 .

Web links

• Scott Hotaling. Global change biology at high altitudes and latitudes , own website
• Erica Peterson: Why Study Stoneflies? Climate Change Biologist Scott Hotaling Explains , website 89.3 WFPL, recording a radio interview with Hotaling
• Cooper McKim: Scientists Race To Research Stonefly Species Threatened By Climate Change , Wyoming Public Media, September 7, 2018, with photos and an audio recording

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scott Hotaling. Global change biology at high altitudes and latitudes , Scott Hotalings website, accessed March 28, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Scott Hotaling CV , website Scott Hotalings, accessed on March 28 of 2019.
3. ↑ Scott Hotaling et al .: Species discovery and validation in a cryptic radiation of endangered primates: coalescent-based species delimitation in Madagascar's mouse lemurs. In: Molecular Ecology 2016, Volume 25, pp. 2029-2045, doi : 10.1111 / mec.13604 .
4. ↑ Publications , Website Scott Hotalings, accessed on March 28 of 2019.