Wall has received the 2012 Mines Medal from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research President's Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research, and the Soil Ecology Society Professional Achievement Award.

She was named a Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in 1999 and she was selected as the 2012 Tansley Lecturer of the British Ecological Society.

Wall won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2013 and was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2014 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014.
Wall was awarded the University College Dublin's highest honour, the Ulysses Medal, in 2015.

Wall Valley was named in recognition of Wall for her extensive research on soil biology in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, including spending 13 field seasons there at the time of the naming .
Wall has received the 2012 Mines Medal from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research President's Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research, and the Soil Ecology Society Professional Achievement Award.
She was named a Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in 1999 and she was selected as the 2012 Tansley Lecturer of the British Ecological Society.
Wall won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2013 and was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2014 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014. Wall was awarded the University College Dublin's highest honour, the Ulysses Medal, in 2015.
Wall Valley was named in recognition of Wall for her extensive research on soil biology in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, including spending 13 field seasons there at the time of the naming .
Diana Wall