Contact Information
Email: contact [at] kylehartshorn.com (or use the Contact form on this website)
Social Media: LinkedIn | ResearchGate | Google Scholar | Academia.edu
Experience
Freelance Consultant and Illustrator
Ohio Geological Survey – Dunkleosteus (2024) [More info]
- 36″ x 24″ custom artwork featuring Ohio’s state fossil fish, Dunkleosteus terrelli, and the paleoenvironment of the Cleveland Member of the Ohio Shale.
Cincinnati Museum Center – Ancient Worlds Hiding in Plain Sight (2023) [More info]
- Eleven vignettes featuring bivalves, brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, corals, crinoids, edrioasteroids, graptolites, stromatoporoids, trilobites, and the end-Ordovician extinction.
Ohio Geological Survey – Life in Ancient Ohio (2022 – 2023) [More info]
- Seven 24” x 36” posters depicting the flora and fauna of the geologic periods exposed in Ohio, including Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, and Pleistocene.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources – Hueston Woods State Park (2022) [More info]
- Nature Center exhibit artwork featuring the fauna of the Upper Ordovician Liberty Formation that is exposed in the park.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources – Cowan Lake State Park (2021) [More info]
- Naturalist Cabin wall artwork featuring the fauna of the Upper Ordovician Whitewater Formation that is exposed in the park.
University of Dayton – Geology Department Hallway Art (2016 – 2017)
- Four scenes depicting the Origin of the Solar System, Proterozoic, Ordovician, and Pleistocene.
Dry Dredgers – Bulletin Covers (2013 – Present)
- Cover art for the monthly bulletin of Cincinnati’s amateur paleontology group featuring content thematically linked to each month’s presentation.
Kinetic Vision – Cincinnati, Ohio
Strategist (2024)
- Provided client-facing solution architecting for software, engineering, and design consulting projects in the consumer packaged goods, food/beverage, biomedical, and manufacturing/industrial sectors.
Group Manager (2019 – 2023)
- Directed 15-25 artists and developers focused on engineering software, simulation, virtual tours, interactives, mobile apps, and AR/VR.
Software Engineer / Lead Software Engineer (2010 – 2019)
- Developed engineering simulation and virtual reality applications.
Education
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (2005 – 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Minor in Mathematics
Publications
Brett, Carlton E., Christopher D. Aucoin, Benjamin F. Dattilo, Rebecca L. Freeman, Kyle R. Hartshorn, Patrik I. McLaughlin, and Cameron E. Schwalbach. 2020. Revised sequence stratigraphy of the upper Katian Stage (Cincinnatian) strata in the Cincinnati Arch reference area: Geological and paleontological implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 540: 109483. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109483.
Brett, Carlton E., Benjamin F. Dattilo, Kyle R. Hartshorn, Nathan Marshall, and Thomas Schramm. 2022. A new look at the classic Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician, Katian Stage) strata of southern Ohio-Indiana: Shales, shell beds, storms, sediment starvation, and cycles. Geological Society of America North-Central & Southeastern Section Post-Meeting Field Trip Guidebook.
Brett, Carlton E., Hartshorn, Kyle R., Waid, Christopher B.T., McLaughlin, Patrick I., Bulinski, Katherine V., Thomka, James R., Paton, Timothy R., Freeman, Rebecca L., and Dattilo, Benjamin F. 2018. Lower to middle Paleozoic sequence stratigraphy and paleontology in the greater Louisville, Kentucky, area, in Florea, L.J., ed., Ancient Oceans, Orogenic Uplifts, and Glacial Ice: Geologic Crossroads in America’s Heartland: Geological Society of America. doi.org/10.1130/2018.0051(03).
Brett, Carlton E., Kyle R. Hartshorn, Allison L. Young, Cameron E. Schwalbach, and Alycia L. Stigall. 2018. The classic Upper Ordovician stratigraphy and paleontology of the Eastern Cincinnati Arch. IGCP Project 653 Third Annual Meeting Field Trip Guidebook.
Dattilo, Benjamin F., Rebecca L. Freeman, Kyle Hartshorn, David Peterman, Aaron Morse, David L. Meyer, Lindsay G. Dugan, and James W. Hagadorn. 2024. Paradox lost: Wide gape in the Ordovician brachiopod Rafinesquina explains how unattached filter-feeding strophomenoids thrived on muddy substrates. Palaeontology 67(2): e12697. doi.org/10.1111/pala.12697.
Hartshorn, Kyle R., Jack W. Kallmeyer, and Carlton E. Brett. 2016. Dry Dredging the Cincinnati Arch. FOSSIL Mini Conference 2016 Field Trip Guidebook.
Lam, Adriane R., Jennifer E. Bauer, Susanna Fraass, Sarah Sheffield, Maggie R. Limbeck, Rose M. Borden, Megan E. Thompson-Munson, Andrew J. Fraass, J. Michael Hils, Cameron E. Muskelly, Kyle R. Hartshorn, and Raquel Bryant. 2019. Time Scavengers: An educational website to communicate climate change and evolutionary theory to the public through blogs, web pages, and social media platforms. Journal of STEM Outreach 2(1): 1-8. doi.org/10.15695/jstem/v2i1.05.
Patents
US Patent No. 11372474: Systems and methods for virtual artificial intelligence development and testing. [On Google Patents]
Presentations
Hartshorn, Kyle R. 2014. The oldest known multiplacophoran? Review of Eobalanus Ruedemann from the Upper Ordovician of New York State. 8th Ohio (River) Valley Unified Malacologists (OVUM) meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hartshorn, Kyle R. 2017a. Digital dry dredging: Reassessing Eobalanus, Ruedemann’s “ancestral acorn barnacle”. Geological Society of America Joint North-Central/Northeastern Section Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hartshorn, Kyle R. 2017b. Looking for the overlooked: Opportunities for advanced amateur paleontology. Dry Dredgers lecture, 2017/11/17.
Hartshorn, Kyle. 2020. A brief introduction to Cincinnatian stratigraphy. Dry Dredgers beginners’ class lecture, 2020/11/20.
Hartshorn, Kyle R. 2023. Illustrating Life in Ancient Ohio. Ohio Department of Natural Resources invited presentation, Columbus, Ohio. [YouTube]
Posters
Farnam, Cole, Carlton Brett, and Kyle Hartshorn. 2022. Revised sequence stratigraphy for the uppermost Ordovician strata of the Cincinnati region. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 54(5). doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022AM-380269.
Hartshorn, Kyle R., Jack W. Kallmeyer, William P. Heimbrock, and Thomas E. Bantel. 2014. Heirs to the ‘Cincinnati School of Paleontology’: Over 70 years of scientific contributions from the Cincinnati Dry Dredgers. 10th North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC), Gainesville, Florida. [Online version at drydredgers.org]
Lam, Adrian R., Jennifer Bauer, Sarah L. Sheffield, Cameron O. Muskelly, Megan Thompson-Munson, Maggie Limbeck, J. Michael. Hils, Kyle R. Hartshorn, Andrew Fraass, Susanna Fraass, and Rose Borden. 2018. Time Scavengers: A website to disseminate climate change and evolutionary principles to increase public literacy. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, abstract #ED43E-1273. [Abstract]
Field Trip Leadership
- 2023 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (Cincinnati, Ohio): Exploring a Sea without Fish: Late Ordovician Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Cincinnati Arch Region. [Co-leader]
- 2022 Geological Society of America Joint North-Central & Southeastern Section Meeting (Cincinnati, Ohio): A New Look at the Classic Cincinnatian: Sequences, Cycles, and Events in the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Vicinity. [Co-leader]
- 2018 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Indianapolis, Indiana): Middle Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Greater Louisville, Kentucky Area. [Co-leader and driver]
- 2018 IGCP 653 3rd Meeting(Athens, Ohio): The classic Upper Ordovician stratigraphy and paleontology of the Eastern Cincinnati Arch. [Co-leader]
- 2016 FOSSIL Project Mini Conference (Cincinnati, Ohio). [Leader]
Technical Skills
- Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Blender
- Development: C++, C#, git (Github, Bitbucket), JavaScript, Python, Unity, Visual Basic
- Productivity: Microsoft Office (including advanced Microsoft Excel automation), Google GSuite, Trello, Jira
Affiliations
Dry Dredgers (2009 – Present) – Vice President (2024 – Present)
Geological Society of America (2012 – Present)
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (2024 – Present)
The Paleontological Society (2012 – Present)
Ohio Moss and Lichen Society (2018 – Present)
Ohio Geological Society (2022 – Present)
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