So who this Scott Hartman fellow anyways?

I have moved!:

In September of this year (2009) my family relocated to Madison, WI. I am no longer at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, Wyoming, so inquiries regarding the WDC should be sent to the appropriate people by following the link. As anyone who has followed this site knows, the administrative responsibilities at my previous job made me largely put this website on hold. Happily, my new position will allow me more time for research, illustration, and providing new and interesting content here. The first stage of course will be to overhaul my website and move it into the 21st century in terms of code.

General

Thanks for your interest in me. Because I have diverse interests, I am going to try and get up my CV and other documents that various parties may want to see. More importantly, I will try to partition them so you will be exposed to as little extraneous information as possible. I don't want to bore anyone, but someone interested in licensing artwork obviously wants different information than someone inquiring about scientific research, or someone who just wants to know where to send the hate mail. The photograph to the left dates from far too early in the Holocene but it will have to suffice for the moment. It shows a more youthful me, along with with my cat Feynman, and a replica of Lucy's skull (the famous Australopithecus afarensis specimen, not an ex girlfriend).

Believe it or not, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, while totally awesome, are not my primary passion. I am more interested in evolutionary theory. In particular, I am interested in speciation mechanisms (and that whole species-concept problem), phenotypic plasticity, and most of all the developmental-genetic underpinnings of phenotypic innovation.

When not being a nerd, I also like to:

• Watch movies (I'm especially fascinated with special FX)
• Try my hand at photography (perhaps some day I'll upload a gallery of my photos as well).
• Read. Perhaps this is still nerd material, but I do read non-science material. At times. I'll provide some examples when I think of them...
• Follow social and political news, althoughat times this disgusts me so much lately I want to give it up.
• Socialize with my friends (even us science types have them!).

Muscle reconstruction of Styracosaurus albertensis. Brief pen and ink study done while consulting for Charlie McGrady of CM Studio.