Kyle House is a geologic mapper, geomorphologist, and cartographer. He has undergraduate degrees in Geography (BA w/cartography minor) and Environmental Geology (BS) from Western Washington University, Bellingham. He has graduate degrees (MS and PhD) in Geosciences from the University of Arizona, Tucson.  Kyle's early career focused on using geologic information to understand flood histories of desert rivers and alluvial fans. He now focuses on mapping and studying the late Cenozoic geology of rivers, lakes, alluvial fans, and playas in deserts of the western United States. Kyle has worked for the Arizona Geological Survey in Tucson, Arizona (1990-1996), the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada (1996-1998),  and the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology in Reno, Nevada (1998-2010). He has been a Research Geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, since 2010. He is currently co-leading a project to create multi-scaled geologic maps of the lower Colorado River corridor and the Owyhee River corridor.

Kyle received the W.R. Boggess Award for Most Outstanding Paper in 2005 from the American Water Resources Association for work using geologic mapping to understand flood hazards on alluvial fans. In 2013 he and two co-authors, Phil Pearthree and Mike Perkins, received the Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence from the Geological Society of America for their 2008 paper about the origin of the lower Colorado River downstream from Grand Canyon.