Professor Tim Stern

Professor of Geophysics and Geology

• Office: CO 519
• Phone: (04) 463-5112
  (international: +64-4-463-5112)
• Email: Tim.Stern@vuw.ac.nz

Research Interests

• Crust and mantle structure of the earth.
• Isostatic processes including flexure of the lithosphere.
• Isostatic rebound due to erosion and basin subsidence.
• The interaction of climate and tectonics.
• Applied geophysics in oil and mineral exploration.
• Exploration of the crust and mantle structure of New Zealand and Antarctica.
• Active seismic techniques.

Project management

• Project leader on two major grants:
• Public Good Science Fund: 2002- 2007 Leader of PGST grant # VICX0204, "Structure, deformation and mechanical properties of the crust and mantle" This is $1.35 mill project to run over 5 years.
• Marsden Fund: 2003-2007: Leader of Marsden fund "Seismic investigation of mantle melts beneath Taupo Volcanic Zone" $0.6 mill over 3 years.
• Participant on VUW URF grant: Rheology and seismic properties of mantle rocks
• Holder of ISAT grant ISATB04 61 "Isostatic Rebound in the Himalayas"

Courses taught

• ESCI 203: ( Earth processes)
• ESCI 302: Stuructural geology and techtonics
• ESCI 305: Applied geophysics
• ESCI 411: Global geophysics
• Geol/Gphs 344: Field geophysics.*
• PGEO 401 Basin Analysis:(course readings - see below links)

(* Course co-ordinator for these courses.)

• Draft figures

Course Readings for ESCI 407 2009

Geophysical Exploration and Dynamics of the Alpine Fault Zone Tim Stern

Past Graduate Students

• Stefan Kleffmann (MSc 1992-93)
• Miles Dunkin (MSc 1994)
• Ron Hackney (MSc 1995)
• Ainslie Baxter ( BSc hons 1993)
• Rachel Newrick ( BSc hons 1993)
• Vaughan Stagpoole ( BSc hons 1993)
• Stefan Kleffmann ( PhD 1994-99)
• Aasha Pancha ( BSc hons 1994)
• Julie Quinn ( BSc hons 1995)
• Paul Herring ( BSc hons 1995)
• Vaughan Stagpoole ( PhD 1994-97)
• Tony Harrison ( MSc 1996-97)
• Scott Langdale ( BSc hons 1996)
• Lyla Taylor ( Dip. Geophysics 1996)
• Mark Skridulaitis ( BSc hons 1997)
• Eric Duggan ( BSc hons 1997)
• Emily Chetwin ( BSc hons 1998)
• Jason Storey ( BSc hons 1999)
• Anna Pulford ( PhD 1999-2003)
• Martin Sherwath ( PhD 1999-2003)
• Wanda Stratford ( BSc hons 2000)
• Marion Walls ( MSc 2001-2003)
• Huw Horgan ( MSc 2001-2003)
• Nora Patterson ( BSc hons 2002)
• Guy Baldock ( MSc 2003-2005)

Present Graduate Students

Note: project titles are tentative only

• Louise Christie (MSc): An analysis of Neogene subsidence based on subsidence data from oil wells of New Zealand
• Joanne Whittaker (MSc). Structure and seismic stratigraphy of the Western Ross Sea.
• Kiran Hudson (BSc (Hons)). A gravity and seismic reflection investigation of the southeast margin of Wanganui Basin, New Zealand.
• Suzannah Toulmin (MSc). Gravity and seismic study of the Galeta Basin, Central North Island, New Zealand.
• Eric Ewig (PhD). Structure and tectonics of the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand
• Wanda Stratford (PhD). Crust and upper mantle of the central North Island, New Zealand.
• Michelle Salmon (PhD). Seismic attenuation (Q-1) and structure of the mantle wedge, North Island New Zealand.
• Sandra Bourguinon (PhD). Crustal and mantle structure of the central South Island, New Zealand..
• Adrian Benson (PhD). Seismic exploration of mantle melts and structure beneath Central North Island, New Zealand.

Projects

Projects that we have committed to in the next few years, and we will be looking for students to work on:

1. A joint US-NZ program to measure seismic anisotropy of the upper mantle through central South Island. The proposal has our US colleagues (University of Colorado, MIT, Woods Hole) deploying up to 25 broad-band ocean-bottom seismographs along a 1500 km long profile that passes through central South Island. Our component of this project is to install broad bands along the on land portion (160-km long) part of the profile. This project is due to start in 2007.
2. An onshore-offshore seismic project in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. This is a proposed joint project between University of California(SB), Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory and Victoria University. The goal of the project is to image crustal and mantle structure beneath the edge of the Transantarctic Mountains.
3. A small scale seismic refraction study on the Red Hills ophilite ( South Westland) in an attempt to measure in-situ seismic anisotropy of Olivine.

Other projects that we have in mind but no firm proposal has yet to be made:

1. Crustal structure and teleseismic P-wave delay profile across the Haast highway and into central Otago.
2. A micro-earthquake study of the central section of the Alpine Fault.
3. Onshore-offshore seismic experiments in the western North Island. In particular work with the oil industry on onshore-offshore methods to image shallow structure around the coast. Also a longer term plan is try and image the Taranaki Peninsula to upper mantle depths using onshore-offshore methods. 4. Analysis of industry aeromagnetic survey of the central North Island in terms of volcanic structures and Curie Point depth.
4. Onshore-offshore P-wave delay investigation of the South Wanganui Basin in an attempt to understand mantle thickening.

Collaborators

Over past 6 years -

• Peter Molnar
• Uri ten Brink
• David Okaya
• Greg Houseman
• Stuart Henrys
• Donna Eberhart-Phillips

Inaugural Lecture April 24 2007 (Exploration and Discovery)

Publications

• 70 publications since 1978
• Author of 70 Refereed publications (since 1978) in journals including: Nature, Science, New Scientist, Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Tectonophysics, Geophysical Journal International and Geophysical Research Letters.

Papers submitted but not yet in press

• Stratford, W.R. & Stern,T.A. Crust and mantle structure of continental back ?arc: the Central North Island , New Zealand, Submitted to Geophysical J. Int. April, 2005
• Salmon, M. Savage, M., and Stern, T. Seismic attenuation, temperature and mantle Buoyancy, central North Island, New Zealand, Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, May, 2005.
• Stern, T.A. Subduction at a continental margin: kinematics and dynamics of the central North Island, New Zealand. Submitted to Reviews of Geophysics , March 2005.
• E.M. Chetwin and T.A. Stern, Active Faulting and Subsurface Structure in the Mackenzie Basin, Central South Island, New Zealand, submitted to NZJGG , July , 2001*

Published Papers since 1992 (year of appointment at VUW):

• 80. Davey, F., D. Eberhart-Phillips, M. Kohler, S. Bannister, G. Caldwell, S. Henrys, M. Scherwath, T. Stern, and H. van Avendonk (2007). Geophysical structure of the Southern Alps Orogen, South Island, New Zealand, In Press ( release date, Dec 10, 2007): AGU vol 157, A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. Editors: D. Okaya, T. Stern and F.Davey.
• 79. Okaya, D. Stern, T. and Davey, F. (2007).Continent-continent collision at the Pacific/Indo-Australian Plate Boundary: background, motivation, and principal results, In Press ( release date, Dec 10, 2007): AGU vol 157, A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. Editors: D. Okaya, T. Stern and F.Davey.
• 78. R. Sutherland, D. Eberhart-Phillips, R. Harris, T. Stern, & 15 others(2006). Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand?
  In Press ( release date, Dec 10, 2007): AGU vol 157, A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. Editors: D. Okaya, T. Stern and F.Davey.
• 77. Bourguignon, S., Savage, M.K. and T. Stern. Crustal thickness and Pn anisotropy beneath the Southern Alps oblique collision, New Zealand. In Press ( release date, Dec 10, 2007): AGU vol 157, A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. Editors: D. Okaya, T. Stern and F.Davey.
• 76. Stern, T., Okaya, D., Kleffmann, S., Scherwath, M. Davey, F. Geophysical exploration  and dynamics of the Alpine Fault Zone: In Press ( release date, Dec 10, 2007): AGU vol 157, A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. Editors: D. Okaya, T. Stern and F.Davey.
• 75. Bourguignon, S., Stern, T. and M.K. Savage (2007). Crust and mantle thickening beneath the southern portion of the Southern Alps, New Zealand, Submitted to Geophys. J. Int ,  168, 681-690.
• 74. Scherwath, M., Stern, T., Davey, F., Davies, R. (2006).  Three– dimensional lithospheric deformation under oblique continental collision from gravity analysis in South Island, New Zealand,  Geophys. J. Int. 167, 906-916. 
• 73. Stern, T.A., Stratford, W.R. and M.L. Salmon (2006). Subduction at a continental margin: kinematics and dynamics of the central North Island, New Zealand. Reviews of Geophysics, 44. RG4002,doi 10.1029/2005 RG000171.
• 72. Stratford, W.R & Stern, T.A.(2006) Crust and upper mantle structure of a continental back-arc: central North Island , New Zealand.  Geophys. Journal International , 166: 469-484.
• 71. Stern, T., Benson, A., Bannister, S., Stratford, W. (2005). Rocks beneath New Zealand’s central North Island: mantle or crust ? , EoS, Vol 86, #51, P. 538,543.
• 70. Baldock, G. and Stern, T.A. Width of mantle deformation across a continental transform : evidence from upper mantle ( Pn) seismic anisotropy measurements ( accepted by Geology, April., 2005).
• 69. Meluish, A., Holbrook, W.S., Davey, F., Okaya, D. and Stern T.A., ( 2005). Crustal and upper mantle seismic structure of the Australian plate , South Island, New Zealand, Tectonophysics 395, 113-135.
• 68. Stern , T. A. , Baxter, A.K. and Barrett, P. Isostatic rebound due to glacial erosion within the Transantarctic Mountains, Geology, 33, 3, P. 221-224 (2005).
• 67 van Avendonk, H., Holbrook, W.S., Okaya, D., Austin, J., Davey, F, and Stern, T. (2004). Continental crust under compression: A seismic refection study of South Island Geophysical Transect 1, South Island, New Zealand. J. Geophys. Res., vol 109, B06302, doi:10.1029/2003JB002790, 204.
• 66 Stratford, W.R. and Stern, T.A. (2004). Strong seismic reflections and melts in the mantle of a continental back-arc basin, Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol 31, L06622, doi:10.1029/2003GLO19323,2004.
• 65 Pulford, A. & Stern, T. (2004). Pliocene exhumation and landscape evolution of central North Island, New Zealand: the role of the upper mantle. J. Geophys. Res. Vol 109, F01016, doi:10.1029/2003JF000046, 2004
• 64 Scherwath, M., Stern, T. Davey, F.J., Davies, R., and D. Okaya (2002). Lithospheric structure across oblique continental collision in New Zealand from wide angle P-wave modelling. J. Geophys. Res. Vol108, B12, 2566, doi:10.1029/2002JB002286,2003.
• 63 Pulford, A., Savage, M. and Stern, T. (2003). Absent anisotropy: the paradox of the Southern Alps orogen, Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 20,doi: 10.1029/2003GLO17758
• 62 Stern, T., Okaya, D. and *Schwewath, M. (2002). Structure, deformation and strength of a continental transform from seismic observations, Earth , Planets and Space , 54:1011-1021, 2002
• 61 Scherwath, M., Melhuish, A., Stern, T, and Molnar, P. (2002). Pn anisotropy and distributed upper mantle deformation associated with a continental transform, Geophysical Res. Letters, vol 29, #8, 10.1029/2001GLO14179.
• 60 Okaya, D. Stern, T, Holbrooke, S., van Avendonk, H., Davey, F. Henrys, S. (2003). Imaging a Plate Boundary Using Double-Sided Onshore-Offshore Seismic Profiling, Leading Edge, 22: 256- 260.
• 59 Godfrey, N.J., Stern, T.A. and Davey, F.J. (2001). Crustal structure and thermal anomalies of the Dunedin area, South Island, New Zealand. J. Geophysics.Res., 106: B12: 30,835 30,848. 58 Molnar, P. Stern, T.A. & Houseman, G. (2001). Thickening of mantle lithosphere beneath New Zealand and the role of buoyant crust in that process. GEOLOGIYA L GEOFIZIKA Russian Geology & Geophysics, 42, 10 (2001), pp 1497-1503 57 Stern, T.A. and *Baxter, A. (2001). Glacial erosion and rock uplift with the Transantarctic Mountains. In: proceedings of the 8th International Antarctic Earth Science Meeting, Roy. Soc. NZ Bull. 35: 471-478.
• 56 Okaya, D., Henrys, S., and T. Stern. (2001). Double-Sided Onshore-Offshore Seismic Imaging of a Plate Boundary: "Super-Gathers" Across the South Island of New Zealand: Tectonophysics, 355: 247-263.
• 55 Stern, T.., Kleffmann, S., Scherwath, M., Okaya, D., Bannister, S.(2001) Low seismic wave speeds and enhanced fluid pressures beneath the Southern Alps of New Zealand, Geology, 29: no. 8, p. 679 682.
• 54 Stern, T.A., Molnar, P., Okaya, D., Eberhart-Phillips, D. (2000). Teleseismic P-wave delays and modes of shortening the mantle lithosphere beneath South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research., Vol 105 B9: 21,615 21,631.
• 53 Molnar, P., Anderson, H., Audoine, E., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Gledhill, K., Klsoko, E., McEvilly, T.V., Okaya, D., Savage, M., Stern, T., Wu, F. (1999). Continuous deformation versus faulting through continental lithosphere of New Zealand. Science, 286: 516-519.
• 52 Bannister, S., Melhuish, A., Henrys, S., Stern, T, ten Brink, U. (1999). Deep seismic reflections beneath the Transantarctic Mountain front, from reprocessing SERIS seismic data, Terra Antarctica. 6: 363-364
• 51 Stern, T.A. & McBride, J.H. (1998). Seismic exploration of continental strike-slip zones. Tectonophysics, 286: 63-78
• 50 Kleffman, S., Davey, F., Melhuish, A., Okaya, D. & Stern, T.A. (1998). Crustal structure in the Central South Island from Lake Pukaki seismic experiment. N.Z. J. Geol. & Geophys. 41: 39-49
• 49 Langdale, S. & Stern, T.A. (1998). Late Tertiary Deformation in Cannington Basin, South Canterbury: Evidence from seismic and gravity data. N.Z. J. Geol. & Geophys., 41: 247-257*
• 48 Davey, F.J., Henyey, T., Holbrook, S., Okaya, D., Stern, T., Melhuish, A., Henrys, S., Anderson, H., Eberhart-Phillips, D., McEvilly, T., Urhammer, R., Wu, F., Jiracek, G., Wannamaker, P., Caldwell, G., Christensen, N. (1997). Preliminary results from a geophysical study across a modern continent- continent collisional plate boundary the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Tectonophysics, 288: 221-236
• 47 ten Brink, U.S., *Hackney, R., Bannister, S., Stern, T.A., Makovsky, Y. (1997). Uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains and the bedrock beneath the East Antarctic icecap. J. Geophys. Res., 102: 27603 27621 *
• 46 Stern, T.A. (1997). Are the waters rising? Sea level change: contributions from man and nature. New Zealand Science Monthly, Feb. edition, pp 6-7.
• 45 Stern, T.A., Wannamaker, P.E., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Okaya, D., & Davy, F.J. and the SIGHT working group (1997) . Mountain-building and active deformation studies in New Zealand., Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 78, #32, pp 329, 335-336.
• 44 Cole, J.W., Darby, D. J. & Stern, T.A. (1995). Taupo Volcanic Zone and Central Volcanic Region back-arc structures of the North Island, New Zealand. In: Back-arc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism, B. Taylor (editor), Plenum, New York: 1-24.
• 43 Smith, E.G.C., Stern, T.A., & OBrien, B. (1995). A seismic velocity model for the central South Island, New Zealand, N. Z. J. Geol. & Geophys., 38: 565-571.
• 42 Stern, T.A. (1995). Gravity anomalies and crustal loading at and adjacent to the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, N.Z..J. Geol. & Geophys., 593-601.
• 41 Davey, F.J., Henyey, T., Kelffmann, S., Melhuish, A., Okaya, D., Stern, T.A., & Woodward, D.J. (1995) Crustal reflections from the Alpine Fault Zone, South Island, New Zealand, N.Z. J. Geol. & Geophys., 601-605.
• 40 Okaya, D., Christensen, N., Stanley, D., & Stern, T.A. (1995). Crustal anisotropy in the vicinity of the Alpine Fault Zone, N.Z. J. Geol. & Geophys., 579-585.
• 39 Stern, T.A. & Holt, W.E. (1994). Platform subsidence behind an active subduction zone. Nature, 368, 233-236.
• 38 Holt, W.E. and Stern, T.A. (1994). Subduction, platform substances and foreland thrust loading: the late tertiary development of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Tectonics, 13: 1068-1092.
• 37 Stern, T.A., ten Brink, U.S., Beaudoin, B.C., & Bannister, S.C. (1994). Seismic experiments on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica: 1985-1991. Terra Antarctica, 1: 513-516.
• 36 ten Brink, U.S., Bannister, S.. Beaudoin, B.C. and Stern, T.A. (1993). Geophysical investigations of the tectonic boundary between East and West Antarctica. Science, 261: 45-50.
• 35 Melhuish, A., Bannister, S., ten Brink, U.S., Beaudoin, B. & Stern, T.A. (1993). Seismic experiment Ross Ice Shelf 1990/91: characteristics of the seismic reflection data, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand: Report #93/6, pp. 45.
• 34 Henyey, T, Stern, T.A. & P. Molnar (1993). A plan for a geophysical survey of the southern Alpine Orogon, New Zealand: an oblique convergent continent-continent collision. Transactions of the American Geophysical Society (EOS), 74: 316-317.
• 33 Stern, T.A., Holt, W.E. & Quinlan, G. (1993). Crustal dynamics associated with the formation of Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. In: South Pacific Sedimentary Basins. Sedimentary Basins of the World, 2, P.F. Balance (editor), Elsever Publishers, Amsterdam, pp. 213-223.
• 32 Beaudoin, B.C., ten Brink, U.S. & Stern, T.A. (1992). Characteristics and processing of seismic data collected on thick floating ice: Results from the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Geophysics, 57: 1359-1372.
• 31 Stern, T.A., Holt, W.E. & Quinlan, G. (1992). Basin formation behind an active subduction zone: 3D flexural modelling of Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Basin Research, 4: 197-214.
• 30 Stern, T.A., ten Brink, U.S. & Bott, M.H.P. (1992). Numerical modelling of uplift and subsidence to the Transantarctic Mountains. Proceedings of the Sixth International Antarctic Geosciences Meeting, Tokyo, Y. Yoshida, K. Kaminuma and K. Shirairaishi (editors), pp. 515-522.
• 29 ten Brink & Stern, T.A. (1992). Rift-margin uplifts and hinterland basins: Comparison between the Transantarctic and the Great Escarpment of Southern Africa, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97: 569-585.
• 28 Bott, M.H.P. & Stern, T.A. (1992). Finite element analysis of the Transantarctic Mountain uplift and coeval subsidence in the Ross Embayment. Tectonophysics, 201, 341-356.
• 27 Stern, T.A., Davey, F.J. & Delisle, G. (1991). Lithospheric flexure associated with Ross Archipelago, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctic. In: Geological Evolution of Antarctica, M.R.A. Thompson, J.A. Crame, & J.W. Thomson (editors), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK: 323-328.
• 26 Holt, W.E. & Stern, T.A. (1991). Sediment loading on the western margin of the New Zealand Continent: implications for the strength of young continental lithospere, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 107: 523-538.
• 25 Stern, T.A. & ten Brink, U.S. (1991). Sounding the bottom of the world (popular science article for New Scientist), 31 August edition, Vol. 1784: 37-39.
• 24 Stern, T.A., & Davey, F.J. (1990). Deep seismic expression of a foreland basin: Taranaki Basin New Zealand. Geology, Vol. 18: 979-982.
• 23 Stern T. A. (1990). Deep seismic data offer a new view of basin. Oil and Gas Journal of the United States, 88, no. 38, pp. 60-67.
• 22 Davey, F.J. & Stern, T.A., (1990). Crustal seismic observations across the convergent plate boundary, North Island, New Zealand. Techtonophysics, 173, 283-296.
• 21 Stern, T.A., (1990). The deep seismic expression of south Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. In: The Potential of Deep Seismic Profiling for Hydrocarbon Exploration, B. Pinet & C. Bois (editors), Editions Technip, Paris, pp. 265-274.
• 20 ten Brink, U.S., Stern, T.A. & Beaudoin. B. (1989). Seismic reflection and refraction experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Antarctic Journal of the United States, 24, 5: 87-88.
• 19 Stern, T.A. & Davey, F.J. (1989). Crustal structure and origin for basins formed behind the Hikurangi subduction zone of New Zealand. In: Origin and Development of Sedimentary Basins and their Energy Sources, R.A. Price (editor), Geophysical Monograph Series 48, American Geophysical Union, pp 73-85.
• 18 Smith, E.G.C., Stern, T.A. & Reyners, M.E. (1989). Subduction and back-arc activity at the Hikurangi active margin, New Zealand. In: Subduction Zones, Ruff & Kanamori (editors), Pure and Applied Geophysics, 128, nos. 3/4: 203-231.
• 17 Stern, T.A. (1989). Deep seismic reflection profiling of the South Taranaki Basin. In: Petroleum Exploration in New Zealand, A. McSweeney (editor), Vol. 19: 26-27.
• 16 Stern, T.A. & ten Brink, U.S. (1989). Flexural uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains. Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, 10315-10330.
• 15 Stern, T.A. (1989). Exploring the continental crust. In: Resource Research, G. Gregory and D. Gordon (editors), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington, New Zealand, 15: 7.
• 14 Stern, T.A. (1988). Gravity models of subsurface thrust structures at the eastern margins of the Taranaki Basin. Geophysics Division Contract Report no. 78. 19 pp.
• 13 Stern, T.A., Smith, E.G.C., Davey, F.J. & K.J. Muirhead (1987). Crustal and upper mantle structure of the Northwestern North Island, New Zealand, from seismic refraction data. Geophys. J. Roy. Astro. Soc. 91: 913-936.
• 12 Stern, T.A. & Davey, F.J. (1987). A seismic investigation of crustal and upper mantle structure within the Central Volcanic Region of New Zealand. N.Z. J. Geol. & Geophys. 30: 217-231.
• 11 Stern, T.A. (1987). Asymmetric back-arc spreading, heatflux and structure associated with the Central Volcanic Region of New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Sci Lett., 85: 265-276.
• 10 Houghton, B.F., Wilson, C.J.N. & Stern, T.A. (1987). Ignimbrite stratigraphy of a 457m deep drillhole near Tokoroa. New Zealand Geological Survey Record, 20: 51-55.
• 9 Stern, T.A. (1986). Geophysical studies of the upper crust within the Central Volcanic Region, New Zealand. In: Late Cenozoic volcanism in New Zealand. I.E.M. Smith (editor), Roy. Soc. of N.Z. Bull. No.23: 92-111.
• 8 Stern, T.A., Davey, F.J. & Smith, E.G.C. (1986). Crustal structure studies in New Zealand. In: Reflection Seismology: a global perspective, M. Barazangi & L. Brown (editors), Geodynamics Series, Vol. 13, A.G.U., Washington, D.C.: 121-132.
• 7 Stern, T.A. (1985). A back-arc basin formed within continental lithosphere: the Central Volcanic Region of New Zealand. Tectonophysics, 112: 385-409.
• 6 Stern, T.A. & Davey. F.J. (1985). Crustal structure studies within the Central North Island: the Central Volcanic Region. Geophysics Division Report no. 207, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington. 47 pp.
• 5 Stern, T.A. (1984). A seismic refraction survey near the Dailey Islands, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Geophysics Division Report no. 98, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington, New Zealand. 52 pp.
• 4 Paintin, I.K. & Stern, T.A. (1984). Seismic reflection surveys in the Buller Coal Field, Westland, New Zealand. Geophysics Division Report no. 202, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington, New Zealand. 54 pp.
• 3 Stern, T.A. (1982). A residual gravity survey of the Rennick Glacier, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, N.Z. Polar Record, 9: 110-116.
• 2 Stern, T.A. (1979). Regional and residual gravity fields, Central North Island, New Zealand. N.Z. J. Geol. & Geophys. 22: 479-485.
• 1 Stern, T.A. (1978). Gravity survey of the Taylor Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctica Research Centre Publication no. 8, Geology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 23 pp.