Professor Martin Thoms
Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BSc, MSc (Canterbury, NZ), PhD (Loughborough, UK)
Contact
| Email: | mthoms2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Earth Sciences (C2) 202 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2768 (or +61 2 6773 2768 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3030 |
Professor Martin Thoms is an internationally recognized scientist in the field of riverine ecosystems specializing in fluvial geomorphology and freshwater ecology. He has a Bachelors and Master of Science from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and received his PhD from Loughborough University in the UK in 1988. His competency in the field of interdisciplinary river science has been recognized numerous times by Australian and International organizations/institutions. He has been won awards for his innovation in river science from the University of Canberra, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences and the Binghamton Geomorphology Group.
Professor Thoms has over twenty years research experience in river ecosystems and to date, has published in excess of 205 refereed scientific publications, six books, and over sixty major government research reports. He is a science advisory committee to the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Ecohydrology in Wuhan, China, and the Murray Darling Basin Authority in Australia. His international posts include, Vice President of the International Society for River Science and Secretary for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. He is currently the regional editor (Asia and the Pacific) of River Research and Applications and is on the editorial of Geomorphology and Geography Compass. He also leads the Riverine Landscapes Research Lab at UNE.
In his spare time, he is a keen Mountain Biker, has two energetic dogs which keep him active and more importantly is a football tragic.
Areas of Teaching
GEPL306 Landscape Processes
GEPL308 Environmental Change
GEPL311 Catchment to Coast
GEPL402H Geography Hons
Research interests
Martin Thoms research interests are in the interdisciplinary study of floodplain river ecosystems. He has an active post graduate research group and there are always opportunities for additional students to join the lab, please contact Martin for information.
Publications
Books
Thoms, M.C., Heal, K, Bogh, E., Chambel, A., Smakhtin, V.,(eds) (2009). Ecohydrology of surface and groundwater dependant systems: Concepts, methods and recent developments. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Press.
Thorp, J.H., Thoms, M.C., Delong, M.D., (2008). The Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis. San Diego, California, Elsevier. 210pp.
Thoms, M.C., Markwort, K., Tyson, D. (2008). Changing channels: Life on the Narran. Murray Darling Basin Commission, ACT, Australia, 208pp.
Thoms, M.C., Renschler, C., Doyle, M (eds)(2007) Geomorphology and Ecosystems. Special Issue of Geomorphology, 89 (1-2), 239p.
Refereed journal papers
Arthington, A., Olden, J., Balcombe, S., Thoms, M.C. (in press). Multi-scale environmental factors explain fish losses and refuge quality in drying waterholes of Cooper Creek, an Australian arid-zone river. Marine and Freshawter Research, 61, 842-856.
Harris, C.A., Thoms, M.C., Scown, M.A. (2009). The ecohydrology of stream networks. International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 328, 127-138.
Likens, G.E., Walker, K.F., Davies, P.E., Brookes, J., Olley, J.M., Young, W., Thoms, M.C., Lake, P.S., Davis, J., Arthington, A., Thompson, R., Oliver, R.L., (2009). Ecosystem science: toward a new paradigm for managing Australia’s inland aquatic ecosystems. Marine and Freshwater Research, 60, 271-279.
Parsons, M.E., Thoms, M.C. (2007). Hierarchical patterns of large woody debris distribution and macroinvertebrate-environment associations in river ecosystems. Geomorphology, 89, 127-146.
Rayburg, S.C., Thoms, M.C., Neave, N., (2009). A comparison of digital elevation models generated from different data sources. Geomorphology, 106, 261-270.
Rayburg, S.C., Thoms, M.C., (2009). A coupled hydraulic-hydrologic modelling approach to deriving a water balance model for a complex floodplain-wetland system. Hydrological Research, 40, 364-379.
Reid, M.A., Thoms, M.C., (2008). Near bed hydraulics and associated invertebrate communities. Biogeosciences, 5, 1033-1041.
Renschler, C.S., Doyle, M., Thoms, M.C., (2007). Geomorphology and Ecosystems: Challenges and Keys for Success. Geomorphology, 89, 1-8.
Thorp, J.H., Flotemersch, J.E., Delong, M.D, Casper, A.F., Thoms, M.C., Ballantyne, F, Williams, B.S, O’Neill, B.J, Haase, S.C, (2010) Linking Ecosystem Services, Rehabilitation, and River Hydrogeomorphology, Bioscience, 60, 74-75.
Thoms, M.C (2007). The distribution of heavy metals in a highly regulated river: the River Murray, Australia. International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 314, 145-153.
Thoms, M.C., Brennan, S., Franks, S.W., (2008). The sources and dispersal of sediment within a large flood plain complex. International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 325, 52-59.
Current Postgraduate Students
Nevenka Bulovic (Masters) - Anthropogenic Fragmentation of River Networks: Quantification and Restoration
Tom Breen (Masters) - River networks
Alie Colwood (PhD) - Connectivity and food webs in lowland rivers
Adrian Matheson (PhD) -The Ecohydrology of large wood: Associations between hydraulics, large wood and fish assemblage in the Barwon Darling River, Australia
Glynis Orr (PhD) - Modelling flow regime for extreme events, Baron River, Queensland
Chris Rogers (PhD) - Environmental influences on anostracan zoogegoraphy, with emphasis on Australia and North America
Murray Scown (PhD) - Using LiDAR to quanitify the physical complexity of floodplain landscapes, investigating the influences of scale and hydrology on such physical complexity, and its implications for ecosystem functioning
Rajendra Shilpakar (PhD) - Floodplain vegetation landscape: ecotone or dynamic patch mosaics?
Rajesh Thapa (PhD) - The Narran Floodplain Landscape: Ecotone or dynamic patch mosaic?
Munique Webb (PhD) - The influence of habitat heterogeneity and hydrological connectivity on riverine foodweb structure
Kevin Wilkinson (PhD) - The Ecohydrology and restoration of an estuarine wetland