Hall is an ecosystem ecologist and associate professor at the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.

Her research focuses on ecosystem ecology and the ways that human activity interacts with the environment.

Not long after receiving her PhD, Hall was an assistant professor in the environmental program at Colorado College, teaching the school's first biogeochemistry course.

[3] Sharon Hall and her research team are focused on studying the ways that human activity and ecosystems interact with one another.

[3] She has done extensive research with the CAP LTER (Central Arizona-Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research Site, part of the larger LTER network funded by the National Science Foundation) and is on the CAPIV Executive Committee.