Tim Robson

Dr Tim Robson

Hydrogeologist, Adjunct Research Fellow

Gulbali Institute

Biography

Dr Tim Robson is the Founder and Principal Hydrogeologist at Creekside Environmental and a researcher specialising in hydrogeology. His research interests and experience include groundwater–surface water interactions and the application of stable isotopes and other tracers, including contaminants, to investigate groundwater processes in both natural and impacted systems.

Since 2006, he has worked for both Australian-owned consultancies and multinational organisations, delivering projects across Australia and in the Pacific Islands and United States. Tim has managed and contributed to projects across a diverse range of settings, including rivers, lakes and wetlands, as well as wastewater treatment plants, fuel refineries, petrol stations, landfills, quarries, airports, Defence land, agricultural properties, transport infrastructure developments, railway corridors, and both brownfield and greenfield developments.

This industry experience informs applied research aimed at improving the characterisation of groundwater systems and supporting evidence-based environmental management and informed regulatory decision-making.

Research
  • Groundwater – Surface Water Interaction
  • Groundwater Quality and Contaminant Hydrogeology
  • Environmental Tracers and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Fate and Transport of Contaminants / Monitored Natural Attenuation
  • Contaminated Land
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent Publications

Bennetts, D, Robson, T, Ellis, D. (2023) When LNAPL behaves like a DNAPL: The Diving Plume Phenomenon. Ecoforum Sustrem Conference 2023.

Szabo, D, Coggan, T.L, Robson, T.C, Currell, M, Clarke, B.O. (2018). Investigating recycled water use as a diffuse source of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances to groundwater in Melbourne, Australia. Science of the Total Environment, vol. 644, pp. 1409- 1417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.048

Robson, T.C & Webb, J.A. (2016). The use of environmental tracers to determine focused recharge from a saline disposal basin and irrigation channels in a semiarid environment in Southeastern Australia. Journal of Hydrology, vol. 538, pp. 326-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.03.043

Robson, T.C & Webb, J.A (2012). The effect of lake loading on groundwater levels around Lake Tutchewop in the Murray-Darling Basin, southeastern Australia. 39th International Association of Hydrogeologists Congress Conference Program and Abstracts, September 2012, Niagara Falls, pp. 129 – 130.

Robson, T.C & Webb, J.A. (2011). Late Neogene tectonics in Northwestern Victoria: Evidence from the Late Miocene-Pliocene Loxton Sand. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 58, pp. 579 – 586. https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2011.576702