Prof Tim Flannery FAA
BA (La Trobe), MSc (Monash), PhD (UNSW)
Expertise
Evolutionary biology
Climate change
Paleontology
Zoology
Background
Founding Member, Australian Climate Council
Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
2011, Chief Climate Commissioner, Australian Climate Commission
Chair, Copenhagen Climate Council
Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Australian of the Year 2007
Former Director, South Australian Museum
Author of The Weather Makers, The Future Eaters, Here on Earth, The Eternal Frontier, Throwim Way Leg and the controversial Quarterly Essays Beautiful Lies and After the future: Australia’s New Extinction Crisis
Former Chair, South Australian Premier’s Science Council
Former Chair, South Australian Sustainability Roundtable
Director, Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Books
Flannery, Tim (2011) Among the Islands. Text Publishing, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2010) Here on Earth. Text Publishing, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2008) Now or Never. Sustainability for Australia. Quarterly Essay. Black Inc Publishing, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2007) An Explorer’s Notebook. Essays on Life, History and Climate. Text Publishing, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2007) Where is Here? 300 Years of Exploring in Australia. Text Publishing, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2006). We Are The Weather Makers. The Story of Global Warming. Text Publishing, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2005) The Weather Makers: the history and future impact of climate change. Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2004) Country. Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter (2004) Astonishing Animals. Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2003) Sailing Alone Around the World (edited & introduced). Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2003) Beautiful Lies. Population and Environment in Australia. Quarterly Essay 9, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2002) The Birth of Melbourne (edited & introduced). Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2002)The Life and Adventures of William Buckley (edited and introduced).Text, Melbourne
Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. & Hand, S. (2002) Prehistoric Mammals
of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution.
University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter (2001) A Gap in Nature. Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2001) The Eternal Frontier: an ecological history of North America. Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2000)Terra Australis.The Journals of Matthew Flinders (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2000) The Birth of Sydney (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (2000) The Explorers (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (1997)Throwim Way Leg. Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, Tim (1997) Life and Adventures: John Nicol, Mariner (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, T.F., Martin, R., Szalay, A. & Schouten, P. (1996) Tree-
kangaroos: a curious natural history. Reed., Sydney.
Flannery, Tim (1996) 1788: Watkin Tench (edited and introduced). Text, Melbourne.
Flannery, T.F. (1995) Mammals of New Guinea (Revised Edition). Reed, Sydney.
Flannery, T.F. (1995) Mammals of the South West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Reed, Sydney.
Flannery, Tim (1994) The Future Eaters: an ecological history of the
Australasian lands and people. Reed, Sydney.
Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter (1994) Possums of the World: a
monograph of the Phalangeroidea. Geo Productions, Sydney.
Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P. (1992) The Age of Dinosaurs in Australia. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney.
Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P. (1992) Australia’s Inland Sea. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney.
Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P. (1990) Australia’s Vanishing Mammals. Reader’s Digest, Sydney.
Flannery, T.F. (1990) Mammals of New Guinea. Robert Brown & Associates, Carina.
Flannery, T.F. & Rodd, T. editors (1988) Australia’s Wilderness Heritage (two volumes). Weldon Press, Sydney.
Archer, M. & Flannery, T.F. (1985) The Kangaroo. Weldon Press, Sydney.
