John Tibby

Biography

My primary research focus is the environmental history of North Stradbroke Island (NSI), south-east Queensland. The North Stradbroke Island project is supported by an ARC Discovery grant (DP150103875) examining the long-term climate and environmental history of the region. The main aim of the project is to develop 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. The project’s original collaborators were Dr Cameron Barr (postdoctoral fellow), Professor Melanie Leng (Nottingham), Associate Professor Patrick Moss (Queensland), Dr Jeremy Shakun (Boston), Associate Professor Nigel Spooner (Adelaide) and Drs Jon Marshall and Glenn McGregor (Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation). The project “team” now includes: Dr Andrew Henderson (Newcastle, UK: on stable isotopes), Dr Francesca McInerney (Adelaide: compound specific H isotopes), Dr Lee Arnold (Adelaide-OSL geochrology), Chris Kemp and Haidee Cadd (Adelaide PhD students: pollen analysis). In addition to the long term history of NSI, I am working with Cameron Barr and a number of colleagues on the Holocene climate history of south-east Queensland. We are using a recently published rainfall-carbon isotope relationship in Melaleuca quinquenervia leaves (Tibby et al. 2016) to develop a history of rainfall from leaves laid down in Swallow Lagoon

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc