Stolz studied as an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, and received his PhD in biology in 1974 from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a doctoral dissertation on variation in the life history and social organization of Nevada pupfish populations.
Dicentra nevadensis | Devils Hole pupfish, ''Cyprinodon diabolis'', from Death Valley National Park | (''Cyprinodon variegatus variegatus'') | Cyprinodon nevadensis |