Prof. Brian V. Timms
Conjoint Professor, School of Environmental and Life Sciences,
University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.

Education & Experience:

Brian Timms did a B. Sc. (Hons) at the University of Queensland and then commenced a Ph D in 1969 with Ian Bayly and Bill Williams at Monash University. Of course the project centered on salt lakes. Since then he taught teachers to teach environmental biology for 22 years, but maintained an interest in salt lakes and benthos, expanding to lake geomorphology, coastal dune lakes, and crustacean systematics. Overseas experience included a year each in New Zealand and Canada. The degree of D.Sc was conferred by his alma mater in 1988 for limnological studies in Australasia. Always an explorer, in 1987 he found a distinctive salt lake district of his own and commenced a long term study. Ever since, his papers at Salt Lake conferences and elsewhere have focussed on the Paroo, the most inland and driest subcatchment of the vast Murray-Darling Basin. Very early 'retirement' in 1993 allowed Brian the luxury of almost living in the desert with his lakes and fairy shrimps while maintaining contact with civilization through his adopted host, Newcastle University.

Five Representative Publications

Timms, B.V. 1993 'Lake Geomorphology' (Gleneagles Publishing:Adelaide) 180pp.

Timms, B.V. 1998. A study of Lake Wyara, an episodically filled saline lake in southwest Queensland, Australia.  International Journal of Salt Lake Research 7: 113-132.

Timms, B.V. & A. Boulton. 2001. Typology of arid-zone floodplain wetlands of the Paroo River, inland Australia and the influence of water regime, turbidity, and salinity on their aquatic invertebrate assemblages. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 153: 1-27.

Timms, B.V. 2001. A study of the Werewilka Inlet of the saline Lake Wyara, Australia: a harbour of diversity for a sea of simplicity.Hydrobiologia 466: 245-254.

Timms, B.V. 2004. The continued degradation of Lake Corangamite, Australia. In: 'Dying and Dead Seas Climatic verses Antropic causes' ed L.C.J. Nihoul, P.O. Zavialov & P.P. Micklin. Kluwer Academic Publishes, Dordrecht. pp307-319.

Candidate's Statement

I have been involved with 'salties' since the first symposium in Adelaide in 1979 and have attended most symposia since then. To me these symposia are very enjoyable events. They are academically stimulating, in part due to their interdisciplinary nature, and moreover we get to some amazing places and meet fellow researches for all over the world. I hope this approach continues and international cooperation and friendship is fostered.

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