Dr. Bair is Chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at Ohio State. Scott's innovative teaching of hydrogeology led to receiving Distinguished Teaching Awards in 1988 and 1997. In 1998, he was elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA), and was selected as the GSA's Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer in 2000. Scott is well-known for creating a course entitled, "Science in the Courtroom" in which reading, writing, and computational assignments are used in a mock trial based on the infamous federal groundwater contamination case at Woburn, MA (the case upon which the movie 'A Civil Action' is based).