Robert J. Stern
Robert J. Stern was Professor of Geosciences, serving as a UT Dallas faculty member from 1982 until 2026. Most of his scientific career was spent studying modern and ancient plate tectonic processes and products, especially the active Mariana arc system in the Western Pacific and ancient (800-550-million-year-old) crust exposed in the Arabian-Nubian Shield of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. He has made important contributions to the geology of Iran, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. Geodynamic contributions include ideas about how new subduction zones form and the evolution of Plate Tectonics. He and his co-authors have published about 375 peer-reviewed scientific papers; more information can be found on his Google Scholar profile. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union, and has been Editor-in-Chief of International Geology Review since 2013. He and wife Melissa now live in Los Angeles. More information can be found on his Wikipedia page: Robert_J._Stern