Robert J. Stern

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Robert J. Stern" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Robert James (Bob) Stern (born February 2, 1951) is an American geoscientist based in Texas.

Stern is Professor of Geosciences and Director of the Global and Magmatic Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at Dallas. He has more than 40 years of geoscientific research experience, studying active convergent margin processes and products in the Mariana arc system Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc in the Western Pacific as well as ancient (900-550 million year old) crust exposed in the Arabian-Nubian Shield of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. Stern is expert on the Geology of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex and the geology of Iran, and has made important contributions to the geology of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.^{[citation needed]} These studies involve research at sea and on land. Geodynamic contributions include ideas about how new subduction zones form and the evolution of plate tectonics. He and his students and co-authors have published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers.^[1]

Stern is also interested in generating educational animations and videos of geoscientific processes.^[2] He is head of UTD Geoscience Studios.^[3] He shares supervision of the UTD Geosciences Micro-imaging lab with Dr. Ignacio Pujana. He is also co-director of the Permian Basin Research Laboratory.^[4] Stern is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is Editor-in-Chief of International Geology Review. In 2015 he was inducted into the Oroville, California Union High School Hall of Fame "OUHS HoF Stern citation" (PDF). 2019 he was awarded the International Prize of the Geological Society of Japan. In 2022 he was selected as the UTD Polykarp Kusch Lecturer.