Associate Professor John Tibby

Associate Prof/Reader

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

My research focuses on two main areas that are outlined more fully under "research." These are:

1. Understanding past climatic and environmental variability and change by examining indicators laid down in lake sediments

2. Using diatoms - a type of aquatic algae - to assess stream ”health”

My work involves multiple investigators and often involves collaboration with government agencies in either Queensland or South Australia. The bulk of this work is undertaken along with, or by, PhD students and descriptions of their research appear at the bottom of the "My Research" tab.

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My primary research focus is the environmental and climate history of south-east Queensland by examining lake sediment records from North Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah and, to a lesser extent, K'Gari (Fraser Island). Other work, including that of PhD students, without whom most of this would not be possible, is described below. This work is focussed on ensuring that environmental policy is formulated with a strong evidence base.

The North Stradbroke Island research was supported by ARC Linkage project (LP0990124) and ARC Discovery projects (DP150103875 & DP190102782). The main aims of this work were to i) understand the Holocene climate history of south-east Queensland and ii) understand the long-term environmental in the region. In relation to ii) PhD student Haidee Cadd developed ~100,000-year long climate records that are independent of changes in catchment hydrology. These will be compared to pollen-based records of vegetation change and Sporomiella as a record of the presence of megaherbivores.

A number of publications have emerged from this work with highlights including a record of past rainfall covering the last 7,500 years (Barr et al. 2019) and long records of environmental change developed by PhD students from i) Welsby Lagoon (Cadd et al. 2018): ii) Fern Gully Lagoon (Kemp et al. 2021) and iii) Brown Lake (Lewis et al. 2021). This work would not have been possible without the collaboration with colleagues from Queensland Government.

My other projects include:

The environmental history of the lower Murray River lakes (Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert) and The Coorong (e.g. Tibby et al. 2022). This work focuses on understanding the natural salinity regime of these internationally significant wetlands. This work is in the context of environmental water allocations that provide water to the lower lakes to maintain them as fresh. Our work, which combines analysis of diatoms preserved in the sediments with hyrdological modelling shows that the lakes have been predominantly fresh through most of their history. Our ongoing work from Lake Alexandrina aims to infer the natural flow history of the River Murray.

Analysis of diatoms in the South Australian stream, to improving water quality guidelines. The project is in collaboration with the Environment Protection Authority (SA) and mostly involves sampling using rope as an artificial substrate (Richards et al. 2020). Together with the EPA we have been using experimental streams to assess the affect of salinity, shade and sediment on diatom communities (Tibby et al. 2020; Frost et al. 2023). Our work indicates that stricter salinity guidelines are needed.

Understanding the history of New Zealand's lakes as a part of the Lakes 380 project. This massive project has analysed the sediment record from 380 New Zealand lakes. My involvement is mostly via PhD student Dr Julia Short who published a paper on the history of Lake Oporoa in the southern North Island and how the sediment record can be used in conjunction with the local iwi desires to guide culturally acceptable restoration (Short et al. 2022).

Using diatoms to infer the environmental history of the Naracoorte Caves in collaboration with Dr Liz Reed, Dr Lee Arnold, Associate Professor Nigel Spooner (Adelaide) and many others. Honours student Rianna Giddens is examined the relationship between diatom composition and light, moisture and other variables in the caves and on the surrounding soils. Rianna also examined the diatoms from Blanche Cave, while I have examined the record from Bat Cave.

Analysis of diatom-water quality relationships on Cape York Peninsula for the Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (Qld). This project aims to better understand the influence of water quality on the biota in springs on Cape York. This will ultimately contribute to water resource planning on The Cape.

The investigation of rates of sedimentation in waterholes in the Moonie River (south-west Queensland) and the environmental history of Burdekin River wetlands. These projects are funded by, and conducted in collaboration with, Queensland's Department of Science and Environment.

The environmental history of western Victorian lakes (in particular Lake Surprise and Tower Hill) in collaboration with Cameron Barr, Jonathan Tyler, Chris Turney, Peter Kershaw and many others. PhD student Georgina Falster had published a study on the climate history of the late glacial (30,000-10,000 years ago), see Barr et al. (2024) and Falster et al. (2018) in publications.

Consulting and contract research

My colleagues and I have undertaken a wide variety of consultancy projects for clients in most Australian states. These have mainly focused on the effect of mine drainage and waste water discharge on stream algal communities. We commonly utilise the Diatom index for bioassesment of Australian rivers (Chessman et al. 2007) as tool. Please contact me for pricing.

Appointments

Date Position Institution name
2018 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide
2007 - 2017 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
Education

Date Institution name Country Title
2000 Monash University Australia PhD
1992 Monash University Australia BA (1st class Hons)
Research Interests

Freshwater Ecology Geography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience Quaternary Environments

Date	Position	Institution name
2018 - ongoing	Associate Professor	University of Adelaide
2007 - 2017	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2000	Monash University	Australia	PhD
1992	Monash University	Australia	BA (1st class Hons)

Journals

Year	Citation
2023	Bourman, R. P., Murray-Wallace, C. V., Wilson, C., Mosley, L., Tibby, J., Ryan, D. D., . . . Hesp, P. A. (2023). Reply to the discussion by Gell and Finlayson (2023). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 70(3), 448-452. DOI
2023	Frost, C., Tibby, J., & Goonan, P. (2023). Diatom–salinity thresholds in experimental outdoor streams reinforce the need for stricter water quality guidelines in South Australia. Hydrobiologia, 21 pages. DOI
2023	Francke, A., Tsimosh, O., Tibby, J., Reid, M., Fletcher, M., & Tyler, J. J. (2023). Contemporary Controls on Terrestrial Carbon Characteristics in Temperate and Sub‐Tropical Australian Wetlands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(1), e2022JG007092-1-e2022JG007092-17. DOI
2022	Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Leng, M., Lomax, B., . . . Jacobsen, G. (2022). Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7500 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67(1), 75-93. DOI Scopus1
2022	Pearman, J. K., Wood, S. A., Vandergoes, M. J., Atalah, J., Waters, S., Adamson, J., . . . Tibby, J. (2022). A bacterial index to estimate lake trophic level: National scale validation. Science of the Total Environment, 812, 9 pages. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2022	Bourman, R. P., Murray-Wallace, C. V., Wilson, C., Mosley, L., Tibby, J., Ryan, D. D., . . . Hesp, P. A. (2022). Holocene freshwater history of the Lower River Murray and its terminal lakes, Alexandrina and Albert, South Australia, and its relevance to contemporary environmental management. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 69(5), 605-629. DOI Scopus5 WoS2
2022	Mosley, L. M., Bourman, B., Muller, K., & Tibby, J. (2022). Comment on Finlayson et al. 'Continuing the discussion about ecological futures for the lower Murray river (Australia) in the Anthropocene'. Marine and Freshwater Research, 73(5), 573-577. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2022	Short, J., Tibby, J., Vandergoes, M. J., Wood, S. A., Lomax, N., Puddick, J., . . . McFarlane, K. (2022). Using palaeolimnology to guide rehabilitation of a culturally significant lake in New Zealand. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 32(6), 931-950. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2022	Tibby, J., Haynes, D., Gibbs, M., Mosley, L., Bourman, R. P., & Fluin, J. (2022). The terminal lakes of the Murray River, Australia, were predominantly fresh before large-scale upstream water abstraction: Evidence from sedimentary diatoms and hydrodynamical modelling. Science of the Total Environment, 835, 155225-1-155225-8. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2022	Cadd, H., Sherborne-Higgins, B., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Forbes, M., . . . Turney, C. (2022). The application of pollen radiocarbon dating and bayesian age-depth modeling for developing robust geochronological frameworks of wetland archives. Radiocarbon, 64(2), 213-235. DOI Scopus2
2022	Tyler, J. J., Marshall, J. C., Schulz, C., Barr, C., Hofmann, H., Blessing, J. J., . . . Tibby, J. (2022). Hydrological and Isotopic Variability of Perched Wetlands on North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Australia: Implications for Understanding the Effects of Past and Future Climate Change. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 21 pages. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2022	Francke, A., Dosseto, A., Forbes, M., Cadd, H., Short, J., Sherborne-Higgins, B., . . . Cohen, T. J. (2022). Catchment vegetation and erosion controlled soil carbon cycling in south-eastern Australia during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. Global and Planetary Change, 217, 103922-1-103922-16. DOI Scopus3
2022	Rudd, R. C., Tyler, J. J., Tibby, J., Tanabe, Y., & Kudoh, S. (2022). Ecological and habitat preferences of diatoms in lakes of Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica. Freshwater Biology, 67(12), 2113-2129. DOI
2021	Forbes, M., Cohen, T., Jacobs, Z., Marx, S., Barber, E., Dodson, J., . . . Woodward, C. (2021). Comparing interglacials in eastern Australia: a multi-proxy investigation of a new sedimentary record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 252, 106750-1-106750-20. DOI Scopus10 WoS6
2021	Lewis, R. J., Tibby, J., Arnold, L. J., Gadd, P., Jacobsen, G., Barr, C., . . . Moss, E. (2021). Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods. Quaternary Research, 102, 68-90. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2021	Barr, C., Tibby, J., Leng, M. J., Tyler, J. J., Henderson, A. C. G., Overpeck, J. T., . . . McRobie, F. H. (2021). Author Correction: Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1 page. DOI
2021	Tibby, J., Bourman, B., Wilson, C., Mosley, L. M., Belperio, A. P., Ryan, D. D., . . . Haynes, D. (2021). A large mid-Holocene estuary was not present in the lower River Murray, Australia. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 12082-1-12082-5. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2021	Kemp, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., & Arnold, L. (2021). Climate, fire and vegetation history from subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), eastern Australia, during the last three interglacials. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(7), 1201-1213. DOI
2021	Maxson IV, C., Tibby, J., Marshall, J., Kent, M., Tyler, J., Barr, C., . . . Lomax, B. H. (2021). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 581, 110622-1-110622-11. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2020	Kemp, C. W., Tibby, J., Arnold, L. J., Barr, C., Gadd, P. S., Marshall, J. C., . . . Jacobsen, G. E. (2020). Climates of the last three interglacials in subtropical eastern Australia inferred from wetland sediment geochemistry. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 538, 1-16. DOI Scopus13 WoS11
2020	Cadd, H. R., Tyler, J., Tibby, J., Baldock, J., Hawke, B., Barr, C., & Leng, M. J. (2020). The potential for rapid determination of charcoal from wetland sediments using infrared spectroscopy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 542, 109562-1-109562-13. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
2020	Tibby, J., Adamson, K., & Kershaw, A. P. (2020). An 1800-year water-quality and vegetation record from Junction Park Billabong, Murray River, Australia: an assessment of European impacts and sensitivity to climate. Journal of Paleolimnology, 63(2), 159-175. DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2020	Lewis, R. J., Tibby, J., Arnold, L. J., Barr, C., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., . . . Yokoyama, Y. (2020). Insights into subtropical Australian aridity from Welsby Lagoon, north Stradbroke Island, over the past 80,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 234, 106262-1-106262-13. DOI Scopus22 WoS18
2020	Sultana, J., Tibby, J., Recknagel, F., Maxwell, S., & Goonan, P. (2020). Comparison of two commonly used methods for identifying water quality thresholds in freshwater ecosystems using field and synthetic data. Science of the Total Environment, 724, 12 pages. DOI Scopus8 WoS9
2020	Richards, J., Tibby, J., Barr, C., & Goonan, P. (2020). Effect of substrate type on diatom-based water quality assessments in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. Hydrobiologia, 847(14), 3077-3090. DOI Scopus6 WoS6
2020	Tibby, J., Haynes, D., & Muller, K. (2020). The predominantly fresh history of Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, and its implications for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan: A comment on Gell (2020). Pacific Conservation Biology, 26(2), 142-149. DOI Scopus10
2019	Barr, C., Tibby, J., Leng, M. J., Tyler, J. J., Henderson, A. C. G., Overpeck, J. T., . . . McRobie, F. H. (2019). Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1627-1-1627-9. DOI Scopus60 WoS58 Europe PMC4
2019	Sultana, J., Recknagel, F., Tibby, J., & Maxwell, S. (2019). Comparison of water quality thresholds for macroinvertebrates in two Mediterranean catchments quantified by the inferential techniques TITAN and HEA. Ecological Indicators, 101, 867-877. DOI Scopus12 WoS12
2019	Andrae, J. W., McInerney, F. A., Tibby, J., Henderson, A. C. G., Hall, P. A., Marshall, J. C., . . . Greenway, M. (2019). Variation in leaf wax n-alkane characteristics with climate in the broad-leaved paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia). Organic Geochemistry, 130, 33-42. DOI Scopus18 WoS17
2019	Negus, P. M., Barr, C., Tibby, J., Mcgregor, G. B., Marshall, J., & Fluin, J. (2019). Subtle variability in water quality structures tropical diatom assemblages in streams of Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70(10), 1358-1377. DOI Scopus3 WoS4
2019	Mariani, M., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Moss, P., Marshall, J. C., & McGregor, G. B. (2019). Reduced rainfall drives biomass limitation of long-term fire activity in Australia’s subtropical sclerophyll forests. Journal of Biogeography, 46(9), 1974-1987. DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2019	Tibby, J., Barr, C., Marshall, J. C., Richards, J., Perna, C., Fluin, J., & Cadd, H. R. (2019). Assessing the relative impacts of land-use change and river regulation on Burdekin River (Australia) floodplain wetlands. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 29(10), 1712-1725. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2019	Hill, K. E., Barr, C., Tibby, J., Hill, R. S., & Watling, J. R. (2019). A comparison of stomatal traits between contemporary and fossil leaves of Melaleuca quinquenervia: Do they reflect climate variation?. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 271, 104109-1-104109-8. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2019	Tibby, J., Richards, J., Tyler, J. J., Barr, C., Fluin, J., & Goonan, P. (2019). Diatom-water quality thresholds in South Australian streams indicate a need for more stringent water quality guidelines. Marine and Freshwater Research, 71(8), 942-952. DOI Scopus11 WoS10
2019	Kemp, C., Tibby, J., Arnold, L., & Barr, C. (2019). Australian hydroclimate during Marine Isotope Stage 3: a synthesis and review. Quaternary Science Reviews, 204, 94-104. DOI Scopus17 WoS16
2018	Coates-Marnane, J., Olley, J., Tibby, J., Burton, J., Haynes, D., & Kemp, J. (2018). A 1500 year record of river discharge inferred from fluvial-marine sediments in the Australian subtropics. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 504, 136-149. DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2018	Falster, G. M., Tyler, J., Grant, K., Tibby, J., Turney, C., Lohr, S., . . . Kershaw, A. P. (2018). Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 192, 106-122. DOI Scopus21 WoS19
2018	Shao, Y., Farkas, J., Holmden, C., Mosley, L., Kell-Duivestein, I., Izzo, C., . . . Gillanders, B. (2018). Calcium and strontium isotope systematics in the lagoon estuarine environments of South Australia:implications for water source mixing, carbonate fluxes and fish migration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 239, 90-108. DOI Scopus25 WoS25
2018	Cadd, H. R., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Unger, L., Leng, M. J., . . . Baldock, J. (2018). Development of a southern hemisphere subtropical wetland (Welsby Lagoon, south-east Queensland, Australia) through the last glacial cycle. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 53-65. DOI Scopus22 WoS21
2018	Tibby, J., Tyler, J., & Barr, C. (2018). Post little ice age drying of eastern Australia conflates understanding of early settlement impacts. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 45-52. DOI Scopus14 WoS15
2017	Barr, C., Tibby, J., Moss, P., Halverson, G., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., & Stirling, E. (2017). A 25,000-year record of environmental change from Welsby Lagoon, North Stradbroke Island, in the Australian subtropics. Quaternary International, 449, 106-118. DOI Scopus16 WoS16
2017	Tibby, J., Barr, C., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., Moss, P., Arnold, L., . . . Moss, E. (2017). Persistence of wetlands on North Stradbroke Island (south-east Queensland, Australia) during the last glacial cycle: implications for Quaternary science and biogeography. Journal of Quaternary Science, 32(6), 770-781. DOI Scopus19 WoS19
2017	Ackerley, D., Reeves, J., Barr, C., Bostock, H., Fitzsimmons, K., Fletcher, M., . . . Tyler, J. (2017). Evaluation of PMIP2 and PMIP3 simulations of mid-Holocene climate in the Indo-Pacific, Australasian and Southern Ocean regions. Climate of the Past, 13(11), 1661-1684. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2016	Moss, P., Tibby, J., Shapland, F., Fairfax, R., Stewart, P., Barr, C., . . . Sloss, C. (2016). Patterned fen formation and development from the Great Sandy Region, south-east Queensland, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 67(6), 816-827. DOI Scopus13 WoS12
2016	Tibby, J., Barr, C., McInerney, F., Henderson, A., Leng, M., Greenway, M., . . . McNeil, V. (2016). Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the broad-leaved paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall. Global Change Biology, 22(10), 3474-3486. DOI Scopus13 WoS13
2016	Rudd, R., Tyler, J., Tibby, J., Yokoyama, Y., Tavernier, I., Verleyen, E., . . . Takano, Y. (2016). A diatom-inferred record of lake variability during the last 900 years in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(2), 114-125. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2016	Cunningham, L., Tibby, J., Forrester, S., Barr, C., & Skjemstad, J. (2016). Mid-infrared spectroscopy as a potential tool for reconstructing lake salinity. Water (Switzerland), 8(11), 479-1-479-17. DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2015	Chang, J., Shulmeister, J., Woodward, C., Steinberger, L., Tibby, J., & Barr, C. (2015). A chironomid-inferred summer temperature reconstruction from subtropical Australia during the last glacial maximum (LGM) and the last deglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 122, 282-292. DOI Scopus22 WoS22
2015	Yu, L., García, A., Chivas, A., Tibby, J., Kobayashi, T., & Haynes, D. (2015). Ecological change in fragile floodplain wetland ecosystems, natural vs human influence: The Macquarie Marshes of eastern Australia. Aquatic Botany, 120(Part A), 39-50. DOI Scopus15 WoS13
2014	Tibby, J. (2014). Erratum to The Younger Dryas: Relevant in the Australian region? [Quat. Int. 253 (2012) 47-54]. Quaternary International, 321, 132. DOI
2014	Wilkinson, I., Poirier, C., Head, M., Sayer, C., & Tibby, J. (2014). Microbiotic signatures of the Anthropocene in marginal marine and freshwater palaeoenvironments. Geological Society Special Publication, 395(1), 185-219. DOI Scopus31
2014	Barr, C., Tibby, J., Gell, P., Tyler, J., Zawadzki, A., & Jacobsen, G. (2014). Climate variability in south-eastern Australia over the last 1500 years inferred from the high-resolution diatom records of two crater lakes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 95, 115-131. DOI Scopus34 WoS33
2013	Mills, K., Gell, P., Gergis, J., Baker, P., Finlayson, C., Hesse, P., . . . Tibby, J. (2013). Paleoclimate studies and natural-resource management in the Murray-Darling Basin II: unravelling human impacts and climate variability. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(5), 561-571. DOI Scopus17 WoS17
2013	Moss, P., Tibby, J., Petherick, L., McGowan, H., & Barr, C. (2013). Late Quaternary vegetation history of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, eastern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 74, 257-272. DOI Scopus68 WoS65
2013	Barr, C., Tibby, J., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., Moss, P., Halverson, G., & Fluin, J. (2013). Combining monitoring, models and palaeolimnology to assess ecosystem response to environmental change at monthly to millennial timescales: the stability of Blue Lake, North Stradbroke Island, Australia. Freshwater Biology, 58(8), 1614-1630. DOI Scopus32 WoS32
2013	Petherick, L., Bostock, H., Cohen, T., Fitzsimmons, K., Tibby, J., Fletcher, M., . . . Dosseto, A. (2013). Climatic records over the past 30ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup. Quaternary Science Reviews, 74, 58-77. DOI Scopus97 WoS99
2013	Reeves, J. M., Barrows, T. T., Cohen, T. J., Kiem, A. S., Bostock, H. C., Fitzsimmons, K. E., . . . Woodward, C. (2013). Climate variability over the last 35,000 years recorded in marine and terrestrial archives in the Australian region: an OZ-INTIMATE compilation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 74, 21-34. DOI Scopus132 WoS130
2012	Tibby, J. (2012). The Younger Dryas: relevant in the Australian region?. Quaternary International, 253, 47-54. DOI Scopus15 WoS14
2011	Leyden, E., Tibby, J., Garcia, A., & Zawadzki, A. (2011). Unexpected post-settlement freshening and increase in charophytes in Bombah Broadwater (Myall Lakes, New South Wales, Australia). Journal of Paleolimnology, 46(4 Sp Iss), 637-647. DOI Scopus5 WoS6
2011	Haynes, D., Skinner, R., Tibby, J., Cann, J., & Fluin, J. (2011). Diatom and foraminifera relationships to water quality in The Coorong, South Australia, and the development of a diatom-based salinity transfer function. Journal of Paleolimnology, 46(4 Sp Iss), 543-560. DOI Scopus12 WoS13
2011	Dick, J., Haynes, D., Tibby, J., Garcia, A., & Gell, P. (2011). A history of aquatic plants in the Coorong, a Ramsar-listed coastal wetland, South Australia. Journal of Paleolimnology, 46(4 Sp Iss), 623-635. DOI Scopus24 WoS25
2011	Mettam, P., Tibby, J., Barr, C., & Marshall, J. (2011). Development of Eighteen Mile Swamp, North Stradbroke Island: a palaeolimnological study. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 117, 119-130.
2011	Tibby, J., & Taffs, K. H. (2011). Palaeolimnology in eastern and southern Australian estuaries. Journal of Paleolimnology, 46(4), 503-510. DOI Scopus9 WoS10
2010	Philibert, A., Tibby, J., & Williams, M. (2010). A Pleistocene diatomite from the western piedmont of Jebel Marra volcano, Darfur, western Sudan, and its hydrological and climatic significance. Quaternary International, 216(1-2), 145-150. DOI Scopus3
2010	Fluin, J., Tibby, J., & Gell, P. (2010). The palaeolimnological record from lake Cullulleraine, lower Murray River (south-east Australia): implications for understanding riverine histories. Journal of Paleolimnology, 43(2), 309-322. DOI Scopus20 WoS17
2010	Tibby, J., Gell, P., Hancock, G., & Clark, M. (2010). Complex reservoir sedimentation revealed by an unusual combination of sediment records, Kangaroo Creek Reservoir, South Australia. Journal of Paleolimnology, 43(3), 535-549. DOI Scopus9 WoS9
2009	Gell, P., Fluin, J., Tibby, J., Hancock, G., Harrison, J., Zawadski, A., . . . Walsh, B. (2009). Anthropogenic acceleration of sediment accretion in lowland floodplain wetlands, Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Geomorphology, 108(1-2), 122-126. DOI Scopus61 WoS58
2007	Tibby, J., Lane, M., & Gell, P. (2007). Local knowledge and environmental management: a cautionary tale from Lake Ainsworth, New South Wales, Australia. Environmental Conservation, 34(4), 334-341. DOI Scopus53 WoS53
2007	David, B., Roberts, R., Magee, J., Mialanes, J., Turney, C., Bird, M., . . . 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. DOI Scopus82 WoS77
2007	Gell, P., Tibby, J., Little, F., Baldwin, D., & Hancock, G. (2007). The impact of regulation and salinisation on floodplain lakes: the lower River Murray, Australia. Hydrobiologia, 591(1), 135-146. DOI Scopus46 WoS42
2007	Fluin, J., Gell, P., Tibby, J., Haynes, D., & Hancock, G. (2007). Palaeolimnological evidence for the independent evolution of neighbouring terminal lakes the Murray Darling Basin Australia. Hydrobiologia, 591(1), 117-134. DOI Scopus63 WoS62
2007	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, 2005-2010. Hydrobiologia, 591(1), 99-101. DOI Scopus14 WoS15
2007	Tibby, J., Gell, P., Fluin, J., & 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. DOI Scopus36 WoS29
2007	Tibby, J., & Tiller, D. (2007). Climate-water quality relationships in three Western Victorian (Australia) lakes 1984-2000. Hydrobiologia, 591(1), 219-234. DOI Scopus34 WoS27
2007	Haynes, D., Gell, P., Tibby, J., Hancock, G., & Goonan, P. (2007). Against the tide: the freshening of naturally saline coastal lakes, southeastern South Australia. Hydrobiologia, 591(1), 165-183. DOI Scopus17 WoS15
2007	Tibby, J., & Haberle, S. (2007). A late glacial to present diatom record from Lake Euramoo, wet tropics of Queensland, Australia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 251(1), 46-56. DOI Scopus20 WoS21
2006	Haberle, S., Tibby, J., Dimitriadis, S., & Heijnis, H. (2006). The impact of European occupation on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem dynamics in an Australian tropical rain forest. Journal of Ecology, 94(5), 987-1002. DOI Scopus25 WoS22 Europe PMC1
2006	Turney, C., Kershaw, A., Lowe, J., van der Kaars, S., Johnston, R., Rule, S., . . . Fifield, L. (2006). Climatic variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20-10 kyr BP). Quaternary Science Reviews, 25(9-10), 886-903. DOI Scopus59 WoS60
2005	Barry, M., Tibby, J., Tsitsilas, A., Mason, B., Kershaw, A., & Heijnis, H. (2005). A long term lake-salinity record and its relationships to Daphnia populations. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, 163(1), 1-23. DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2005	Gell, P., Tibby, J., Fluin, J., Leahy, P., Reid, M., Adamson, K., . . . Walsh, B. (2005). Accessing limnological change and variability using fossil diatom assemblages, south-east Australia. River Research and Applications, 21(2-3), 257-269. DOI Scopus76 WoS73
2005	Leahy, P., Tibby, J., Kershaw, A., Heijnis, H., & Kershaw, J. (2005). The impact of European settlement on Bolin Billabong, a Yarra River floodplain lake, Melbourne, Australia. River Research and Applications, 21(2-3), 131-149. DOI Scopus42 WoS40
2004	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(3), 144-148.
2004	Tibby, J., & Reid, M. (2004). A model for inferring past conductivity in low salinity waters derived from Murray River (Australia) diatom plankton. Marine and Freshwater Research, 55(6), 597-607. DOI Scopus41 WoS42
2004	Kershaw, A. P., Tibby, J., Penny, D., Yezdani, H., Walkley, R., Cook, E. J., & Johnston, R. (2004). Latest Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and environmental history of the Western Plains of Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 116(1), 139-161. Scopus13
2004	Kershaw, A., D'Costa, D., Tibby, J., Wagstaff, B., & Heijnis, H. (2004). The last million years around Lake Keilambete Western Victoria Australia. Royal Society of Victoria. Proceedings, 116(1), 93-104. Scopus7
2004	Kershaw, A., Tibby, J., Penny, D., Yezdani, H., Walkley, R., Cook, E., & Johnston, R. (2004). Latest Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and environmental history of the Western Plains of Victoria. Royal Society of Victoria. Proceedings, 116(1), 141-163.
2004	Tibby, J. (2004). Development of a diatom-based model for inferring total phosphorus in southeastern Australian water storages. Journal of Paleolimnology (on-line), 31(1), 23-36. DOI Scopus52 WoS52
2003	Tibby, J. (2003). Explaining lake and catchment change using sediment derived and written histories: an Australian perspective. Science of the Total Environment, 310(1), 61-71. DOI Scopus27 WoS27 Europe PMC1
2003	Tibby, J., Reid, M., Fluin, J., Hart, B., & Kershaw, A. (2003). Assessing long-term pH change in an Australian river catchment using monitoring and palaeolimnological data. Environmental Science & Technology, 37(15), 3250-3255. DOI Scopus43 WoS39 Europe PMC4
2002	Eastwood, W., Tibby, J., Roberts, N., Birks, H., & Lamb, H. (2002). The environmental impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera): statistical analysis of palaeoecological data from Golbisar southwest Turkey. Holocene, 12(4), 431-444. DOI Scopus61 WoS56
2002	Reid, M., Fluin, J., Ogden, R., Tibby, J., & Kershaw, A. (2002). Long-term perspectives on human impacts on floodplain-river ecosystems, Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology Proceedings, 28(2), 710-716. DOI
2001	Tibby, J. (2001). Diatoms as indicators of sedimentary processes in Burrinjuck reservoir New South Wales Australia. Quaternary International, 83-85, 245-256. DOI Scopus19 WoS17
2001	van der Kaars, S., Penny, D., Tibby, J., Fluin, J., Dam, R., & Suparan, P. (2001). Late Quaternary palaeoecology, palynology and palaeolimnology of a tropical lowland swamp: Rawa Danau, West-Java, Indonesia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 171(3), 185-212. DOI Scopus124 WoS101
2000	Verschuren, D., Tibby, J., Sabbe, K., & Roberts, N. (2000). Effects of depth, salinity, and substrate on the invertebrate community of a fluctuating tropical lake. Ecology, 81(1), 164-182. DOI Scopus100 WoS98 Europe PMC3
1999	Verschuren, D., Cocquyt, C., Tibby, J., Roberts, C. N., & Leavitt, P. R. (1999). Long-term dynamics of algal and invertebrate communities in a small, fluctuating tropical soda lake. Limnology and Oceanography, 44(5), 1216-1231. DOI Scopus49 WoS47
1999	Verschuren, D., Tibby, J., Leavitt, P. R., & Roberts, C. N. (1999). The environmental history of a climate-sensitive lake in the former 'White Highlands' of Central Kenya. Ambio, 28(6), 494-501. Scopus28 WoS23
1999	Eastwood, W. J., Roberts, N., Lamb, H. F., & Tibby, J. C. (1999). Holocene environmental change in southwest Turkey: A palaeoecological record of lake and catchment-related changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 18(4-5), 671-695. DOI Scopus127 WoS116
1995	Reid, M., Tibby, J., Penny, D., & Gell, P. (1995). The use of diatoms to assess past and present water quality. Australian Journal of Ecology, 20(1), 57-64. DOI Scopus89 WoS75

Books

Year	Citation
2000	Sonneman, J., Sincock, A., Fluin, J., Reid, M., Newall, P., Tibby, J., & Gell, P. (2000). An Illustrated Guide to Common Stream Diatom Species from Temperate Australia. NSW, Australia: The Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology.

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2017	Tibby, J., & Sayer, C. (2017). Inferring Environmental Change in Estuaries from Plant Macrofossils. In K. Weckström, K. Saunders, P. Gell, & C. Skilbeck (Eds.), Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies (pp. 423-440). Dordrecht,: Springer.
2015	Nursey-Bray, M., Fergie, D., Arbon, V., Rigney, L., Palmer, R., Tibby, J., . . . Stuart, A. (2015). Indigenous adaptation to climate change: the Arabana. In J. Palutikof, S. Boulter, J. Barnett, & D. Rissik (Eds.), Applied studies in climate adaptation (Vol. 9781118845011, 1 ed., pp. 316-325). West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. DOI Scopus2
2012	Tibby, J., Penny, D., Leahy, P., & Kershaw, A. (2012). Vegetation and water quality responses to Holocene climate variability in Lake Purrumbete, western Victoria. In S. Haberle, & B. David (Eds.), Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes (1 ed., pp. 359-374). Australia: ANU E Press.
2010	Bennion, H., Sayer, C., Tibby, J., & Carrick, H. (2010). Diatoms as indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes. In E. Stoermer, & J. Smol (Eds.), The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences (2nd ed., pp. 152-173). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. DOI Scopus63
2006	Tibby, J., Kershaw, A., 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, & I. McNiven (Eds.), the social archaeology of Australian indigenous societies (1 ed., pp. 254-269). Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2019	Sultana, J., Recknagel, F., Nguyen, H., & Tibby, J. (2019). Integrated approach for predicting impacts of future climate and land use changes on macroinvertebrates in a Mediterranean catchment using GF, SWAT and HEA models. In 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Supporting Evidence-Based Decision Making: The Role of Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM 2019 (pp. 658-663). online: Modelling & Simulation Society of Australia & New Zealand Inc. Scopus1
2006	Gell, P., Fluin, J., Tibby, J., Haynes, D., Khanum, S., Walsh, B., . . . Little, F. (2006). Changing fluxes of sediments and salts as recorded in lower River Murray wetlands, Australia. In J. Rowan, R. Duck, & A. Werritty (Eds.), Proceedings of Sediment Dynamics & the Hydromorphology of Fluvial Systems Vol. 306 (pp. 416-424). UK: IAHS. Scopus17 WoS14

Year

Citation

2019

Sultana, J., Recknagel, F., Nguyen, H., & Tibby, J. (2019). Integrated approach for predicting impacts of future climate and land use changes on macroinvertebrates in a Mediterranean catchment using GF, SWAT and HEA models. In 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Supporting Evidence-Based Decision Making: The Role of Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM 2019 (pp. 658-663). online: Modelling & Simulation Society of Australia & New Zealand Inc.
Scopus1

2006

Gell, P., Fluin, J., Tibby, J., Haynes, D., Khanum, S., Walsh, B., . . . Little, F. (2006). Changing fluxes of sediments and salts as recorded in lower River Murray wetlands, Australia. In J. Rowan, R. Duck, & A. Werritty (Eds.), Proceedings of Sediment Dynamics & the Hydromorphology of Fluvial Systems Vol. 306 (pp. 416-424). UK: IAHS.
Scopus17 WoS14

Report for External Bodies

Year	Citation
2013	Nursey-Bray, M., Fergie, D., Arbon, V., Rigney, L., Palmer, R., Tibby, J., . . . Hackworth, L. (2013). Community based adaptation to climate change: The Arabana, South Australia (92/13). Australia: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.

Datasets

Year Citation
- Tibby, J., Haynes, D., Gibbs, M., Mosley, L., & Bourman, R. (n.d.). Data for Tibby et al. Lower Lakes paper - Science of the Total Environment.
DOI

Year	Citation
-	Tibby, J., Haynes, D., Gibbs, M., Mosley, L., & Bourman, R. (n.d.). Data for Tibby et al. Lower Lakes paper - Science of the Total Environment. DOI

Undergraduate

GEOG 1102 - Physical Geography and human impacts on the environment

GEOG 2142 - Climate Change

GEOG 3125 - Environmental Policy and Management Internship

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2023	Co-Supervisor	Paleotemperature reconstruction from isotopic composition of Diatoms in SW part of the Bengal Delta, Bangladesh	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Mahfuzur Rahman
2023	Co-Supervisor	Human emotional impacts on invasive/pest animal management	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mrs Sanaz Bahar
2022	Co-Supervisor	Reconstruction of the East Asian Monsoon through the last ~140,000 years- Isotope palaeoclimatology of Lake Suigetsu, Japan.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Vanessa Nowinski
2021	Co-Supervisor	The development and application of weather and intra-annual scale features in climate proxy records for understanding future climate risk	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Darren Andrew Ray
2018	Principal Supervisor	The Hydroclimatic History of Subtropical Australia Inferred for North Stradbroke Island Lake Sediments	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Charles Reynolds Maxson IV

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2021 - 2023	Co-Supervisor	Holocene hydroclimate variability in south-eastern Australia; validation and application of cellulose oxygen isotopes at Lake Surprise, Victoria, Australia.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Asika Dharmarathna
2019 - 2022	Principal Supervisor	The changing water quality of New Zealand’s lakes in response to anthropogenic activities	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Julia Elizabeth Short
2017 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Luminescence dating and geochemistry constraints on late Pleistocene hydrological and ecological change for north-eastern Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Richard John Lewis
2017 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Climate Change Adaptation Benefits of Decentralised Renewable Energy Technologies in the Nepali Mountains	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Govinda Pathak
2016 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	Climate, humans, fire and megafauna - Key drivers of Australian subtropical vegetation	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Haidee Rochelle Cadd
2016 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Bioindicator monitoring and modelling for informing river health management	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Jawairia Sultana
2015 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	Reconstructing Australia's Late Quaternary Climates from the Geochemistry of Lake Sediments and Snail Shells	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Georgina Maja Falster
2015 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Lake Sediment Archives of Late Holocene Climate Variability in Lutzow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Rachel Claire Rudd
2015 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	A 210,000-year reconstruction of subtropical climates from Fern Gully Lagoon, North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Christopher Wilde Kemp
2008 - 2013	Co-Supervisor	Coastal Vulnerability and Climate Change in Australia Public Risk Perceptions and Adaptation to Climate Change in Non Metropolitan Coastal Communities	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Christopher David Button
2003 - 2010	Co-Supervisor	Droughts and Flooding Rains: A Fine-Resolution Reconstruction of Climatic Variability in Western Victoria, Australia, over the Last 1500 Years	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Cameron Barr

Committee Memberships

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2022 - ongoing	President	Australasian Quaternary Association Executive Committee	Australasian Quaternary Association	Australia
2021 - 2022	Vice-President	Australasian Quaternary Association Executive Committee	Australasian Quaternary Association	Australia

Position: Associate Prof/Reader
Phone: 83135146
Email: john.tibby@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83133772
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Napier, floor G
Org Unit: School of Social Sciences

Associate Professor John Tibby

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