Expertise

• Evolutionary biology
• Climate change
• Paleontology
• Zoology

Background

• Co-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, The Eternal Frontier, Throwim Way Leg and the controversial Quarterly Essay Beautiful Lies
• Former Chair, South Australian Premier’s Science Council
• Former Chair, South Australian Sustainability Roundtable
• Director, Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Books

2006 We Are The Weather Makers, Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim)

2005 The Weather Makers, Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim)

2004 Country Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter)

2004 Astonishing Animals Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2003 Sailing Alone Around the World Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim)

2003 Beautiful Lies. Population and Environment in Australia. Quarterly Essay 9, Black Inc., Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2002 The Birth of Melbourne Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2002 The Life and Adventures of William Buckley 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, edited and introduced)

2000 Terra Australis. The Journals of Matthew Flinders Text, Melbourne. (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2000 The Birth of Sydney Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2000 The Explorers Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim)

1997 Throwim Way Leg Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

1997 Life and Adventures: John Nicol, Mariner Text, Melbourne (Flannery, T.F., Martin, R., Szalay, A.. & Schouten, P.)

1996 Tree-kangaroos: a curious natural history Reed, Sydney (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

1996 1788 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.)

1988 Australia’s Wilderness Heritage Weldon Press, Sydney - two volumes (Archer, M. & Flannery, T.F.)

1985 The Kangaroo Weldon Press, Sydney