Timothy Stahl '09

Bachelor of Science in Geology

Dr. Timothy Stahl graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Geology. Stahl chose Stockton due to the excellent reputation of the Geology program, the dynamic Honors program, and the ability to live and work in the Pine Barrens. His honors project was a "sandbox'" model of an active fault in Utah cemented his interest in blending structural geology (million-year timescael) with the surface expression (thousand-year timescale) of active faults. 

After graduation, Stahl completed a Ph.D. at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His dissertation involved characterizing the geology and hazards of reverse faults in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan where he worked on the paleosiesmology of weird normal faults in the eastern Basin and Range of Utah and served as a member of NSF GEER team for the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake.

Stahl is currently a lecturer in Tectonics at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His research involves the geologic record of ancient earthquakes and how mountains build and record within tectonic plate boundaries. He continues to conduct outreach and government consultation regarding siemic hazard in these areas throughout New Zealand, the western U.S. and Georgian Caucasus. Stahl will be starting an new project in western Nepal in 2019.  His geoscience education research involves using digital mapping technologies on smart phones.