Scott Stine

Scott Stine is a geomorphologist and paleoclimatologist in Geography and Environmental Studies at California State University, East Bay. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1987, then accepted a Post-Doc at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. His work at Lamont focused on climate change in the Sierra, the Great Basin, and south-Andean Patagonia. A professor at Cal State since 1991, he teaches classes in landform analysis, climate change, biogeography, map interpretation, and environmental problems and solutions. Elected a lifetime Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 1993, Stine continues his field studies throughout the Americas. His research has been published in numerous scientific journals, and he is the author of two forthcoming books, A Way Across the Mountain: The 1833 Sierran Crossing of Joseph R. Walker, and The Once and Future Mono Basin: An Atlas Through Time. Stine was selected Cal State-East Bay's Outstanding Professor of the Year for 2005-06.