Dr John Tibby

Biography/ Background

John Tibby, co-leads the Environmental Reconstruction and Monitoring Research Group at the University of Adelaide and currently supervises nine PhD and one Masters student.

John undertook his PhD at Monash University developing a diatom-based model for inferring the history of nutrient levels (total phosphorus) in water storage reservoirs (Tibby 2004). He has researched and lectured in the UK at Loughborough University and University College London (Environmental Change Research Centre). He has a research associate for Prof Peter Kershaw (Monash) on the environmental history of the Maritime Conteninent and for Dr Peter Gell (Adelaide) and Dr Peter Wallbrink (CSIRO Land and Water) on the sources and affect of nutrient pollution in the upper Torrens River catchment (SA).

From 2005-2007 he was an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow researching the history of Eastern Australian coastal lakes (Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP0558887 "European impact on Eastern Australian coastal lakes: understanding pre-impact conditions and post-settlement modification").

Qualifications

BA (Hons, 1st Class) Monash, 1992.

PhD, Monash, 2000. Thesis title: "The development of a diatom-based model for inferring total phosphorus and application to Burrinjuck Reservoir, southern New South Wales, Australia"

Teaching Interests

GEST 1002-Footprints on a fragile planet (semester 1) (co-ordinator: John Tibby)

GEST 2026/3026-Climate change and catchment management (semester 2) (with Douglas Bardsley, co-ordinator: John Tibby)

GEST 2011/3011-Biogeography and Biodiversity Conservation (semester 2) (co-ordinator: Douglas Bardsley)

Publications

Refereed publications 2003-present

In press

Bennion, H., Sayer, C.D., Tibby, J. and Carrick, H.J. (in press). Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes. In: E. F. Stoermer and J. P. Smol  (eds.) The Diatoms: Applications for the Earth and Environmental Sciences. New York, Cambridge University Press.

Fluin, J., Tibby, J. and Gell, P. (in press).The palaeolimnological record from lake Cullulleraine, lower Murray River (south-east Australia): implications for understanding riverine histories. Journal of Paleolimnology.

Natt, A., Tibby, J., Zawadski, A. and Harrison, J. (in press). Excess sediment copper concentrations arising from copper sulphate dosing in Warren Reservoir. In: C. B. Daniels (ed.) Adelaide Nature of A City: Water. Adelaide, Wakefield Press.

Tibby, J., Gell, P., Hancock, G. and Clark, M. (in press). Implications of contrasting water column and bottom sedimentation revealed by an unusual combination of sediment records, Kangaroo Creek Reservoir, South Australia. Journal of Paleolimnology.

Tibby, J., Gell, P. and Cox, A. (in press). Influence of River Murray transfers on water quality in Upper River Torrens storages. In: C. B. Daniels (ed.) Adelaide Nature of A City: Water.  Adelaide, Wakefield Press.

2007

David, B., Roberts, R.G., Magee, J., Mialanes, J., Turney, C., Bird, M., White, C., Fifield, L. K. & Tibby, J. (2007). Sediment mixing at Nonda Rock: Investigations of stratigraphic integrity at an early archaeological site in northern Australia, and implications for the human colonisation of the continent. Journal of Quaternary Science, 22(5): 449-479.

Fluin, J., Gell, P., Haynes, D. & Tibby, J. (2007). Palaeolimnological evidence for the independent evolution of neighbouring terminal lakes, the Murray Darling Basin, Australia. Hydrobiologia, 591(1): 165-183.

Gell, P., Fritz, S. Battarbee R. & Tibby, J. (2007). LIMPACS-Human and climate interactions with lake ecosystems: setting research priorities in the study of the impact of salinisation and climate change on lakes, 2005 â?? 2010. Hydrobiologia, 591(1): 99-101.

Gell, P., Tibby, J., Baldwin, D., Little, F. & Hancock, G. (2007). The impact of regulation and salinisation on floodplain lakes: the lower River Murray, Australia. Hydrobiologia 591(1): 135-146.

Haynes, D., Gell, P., Tibby, J., Hancock, G. and Goonan, P. (2007). Against the tide: the freshening of naturally saline coastal lakes, southeastern South Australia. Hydrobiologia 591(1): 165-183.

Tibby, J. & Haberle, S.G. (2007). A late glacial to present diatom record from Lake Euramoo, wet tropics of Queensland, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 251: 46-56.

Tibby, J. & Tiller, D. (2007). Climate-water quality relationships in three Western Victorian (Australia) lakes 1984-2000. Hydrobiologia, 591(1): 219-234.

Tibby, J., Gell, P.A. Fluin, J. and Sluiter, I. (2007). Diatom-salinity relationships in wetlands: assessing the influence of salinity variability on the development of inference models. Hydrobiologia 591(1): 207-218.

Tibby, J., Lane, M.B. & Gell, P.A. (2007). Local knowledge as a basis for environmental management: a cautionary tale from Lake Ainsworth, northern New South Wales, Australia. Environmental Conservation, 34: 334-341.

2006

Tibby, J., Kershaw, A.P., Builth, H., Philibert, A. & White, C. (2006). Environmental change and variability in south-western Victoria: changing constraints and opportunities for occupation and land use. In: B. David, B. Barker and I.J. McNiven (eds.). The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies. Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, pp. 254-269.

Gell, P., Fluin, J., Tibby, J., Haynes, D., Khanum, S.I., Walsh, B., Hancock, G., Harrison, J., Zawadzki, A. & Little, F. (2006). Changing fluxes of sediments and salts as recorded in lower River Murray wetlands, Australia. International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 306: 416-424.

Haberle, S.G., Tibby, J., Dimitriadis, S. & Heijnis, H. (2006). The impact of European occupation on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem dynamics in an Australian tropical rainforest. Journal of Ecology, 94: 987â??1002.

2005

Barry, M.J., Tibby, J., Tsitsalis, A., Mason, B., Kershaw, P. & Heijnis, H. (2005). A long term lake salinity record and its relationship to Daphnia populations. Archiv Fur Hydrobiologie, 163: 1-23.

Gell, P., Tibby, J., Fluin, J., Leahy, P., Reid, M., Adamson, K., Bulpin, S., MacGregor, A., Wallbrink, P. & Walsh, B. (2005). Accessing limnological change and variability using fossil diatom assemblages, south-east Australia. River Research and Applications, 21: 257-269.

Leahy, P.J., Tibby, J., Kershaw, A.P. & Heijnis, H. (2005). A palaeoecological reconstruction of the impact of European settlement on Bolin Billabong, Yarra River floodplain. River Research and Applications, 21: 131-149.

2004

Kershaw, A.P., D'Costa, D., Tibby, J., Wagstaff, B., O'Sullivan, P. & Heijnis, H. (2004a). The last million years around Lake Keilambete, Western Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 116: 95-106.

Kershaw, A. P., Tibby, J. C., Penny, D., Yesdani, H., Walkley, R., Cook, E. & Johnston, R. (2004b). Latest Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and environmental history of the Western Plains of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 116: 141-163.

Tibby, J. and Reid M. (2004). A model for inferring past conductivity in low salinity waters derived from Murray River diatom plankton. Marine and Freshwater Research, 55: 587-607.

Tibby, J. (2004). Development of a diatom-based model for inferring total phosphorus in south-eastern Australian water storages. Journal of Paleolimnology, 31: 23-36.

Tibby, J. (2004). Assessing the impact of early colonial Australia on the physical environment: a comment on Gale and Haworth (2002). Archaeology in Oceania, 39: 144-148.

2003

Reid, M., Fluin, J, Ogden,, R., Tibby, J. & Kershaw, P. (2003). Long-term perspectives on human impacts on floodplain-river ecosystems, Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, 28: 710-716.

Tibby, J. (2003). Explaining lake and catchment change using sediment derived and written histories: an Australian perspective. Science of the Total Environment, 310: 61-71.

Tibby, J., Reid, M., Fluin, J., Hart, B.T. & Kershaw, A.P. (2003). Assessing long-term pH change in an Australian river catchment using monitoring and palaeolimnological data. Environmental Science and Technology, 37: 3250-3255.

 

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009