CSIRO Research Projects

The Cloud180CAM technology provides solar forecasts, which enable remote hybrid power stations to manage the impacts of clouds and reduce their diesel.

The Reservoir Engineering Team has a long established presence in unconventional gas reservoir research, working on the technical challenges associated with gas production from coal, shale, and tight sandstone.

Good health begins in the gut. Simple, accurate and affordable diagnosis of leaky gut syndrome.

Our software moves utility companies from reactive to proactive asset management with zero downtime on the network and no additional hardware costs.

Developing tools and methods that deliver data and information for understanding and managing our environmental resources.

This workshop will address advances in the application of a broad array of “artificial intelligence” methods to effectively integrate large-scale ‘omic’, environmental and trait/diagnostic data to predict phenotypic performance.

We design and evaluate visual interfaces that facilitate a deep cognitive and affective involvement of humans when exploring and reasoning with data.

SELTMP is assisting Reef managers and other decision-makers within the Great Barrier Reef region to incorporate the human dimension into their planning and management.

Lindfield Collaboration Hub is an innovation incubator. A dedicated space for start-ups and SME’s to develop unique, high-tech products and devices.

Next Generation Exploration for Minerals, Energy and Groundwater.

The Data61 Immersive Environments Lab (IE Lab) is purpose built for applied research into the convergence of our digital and physical worlds.

CSIRO’s graphene team uses their expertise to solve pressing challenges in environment, energy and material industries.

We conduct research to understand how our coastal marine environment has changed and will change in the future to identify risks and opportunities for the sustainable use of the coastal environment.

Our work on threatened, endangered and protected species represents a diverse portfolio of work, with strong links to researchers from Universities and other agencies.

The Coastal Environmental Modelling Team delivers environmental intelligence for decision support tools.

A collaborative program which aims to protect a globally-important region for biodiversity, while boosting livelihoods and food security, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The home of applied chemistry in Australia.

Working to remove mosquitoes that can spread dengue and Zika.

Rio Tinto has engaged CSIRO to conduct an ongoing analysis of community attitudes to the company’s iron ore operations in the Pilbara. This gives communities neighbouring the operations a direct voice inside the company, and helping to inform the company’s decision making.

CSIRO is sponsoring a two day workshop to discuss scientific advances in the field as well as the regulatory and social aspects of this new technology.

Harnessing the digital revolution for Australian farmers and land managers.

Research to better inform decision-making: for better food systems, better health, and a better planet (Photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann).

Educator on Board is a professional development program for Australian STEM school teachers.

Inspiring the next generation of plant scientists.

Working with Australia’s agricultural industry to create solutions to major yield-limiting problems.

The optimisation team carries out fundamental and applied research that addresses grand challenges faced by our society in environmental and societal resilience, future energy systems, logistics, and supply chains.

A networked supply chain that takes the edible food loss biomass suitable for human consumption and classifies it, determines its origin, and facilitates its storage and diversion back into the food supply chain.

Helping to grow Australia’s Wellbeing, Health and Nutrition Industry with science and innovation.

The Environomics Future Science Platform is providing the technology to investigate and manage genetic resources hidden within Australia’s vast biodiversity, to enhance crops and reveal processes that can make environmental management more effective.

Improved Surveillance, Preparedness and Return to Trade for Emergency Animal Disease Incursions Using Foot and Mouth Disease as a Model Project

We are interested in topics such as sentiment and emotion analysis, social media text analytics for mental health and social science, social network analysis, social media analytics for emergency crisis coordination, and enterprise document information systems.

Foundational and applied research focused on decision making in multi-agent environments involving a multi-disciplinary approach drawing upon optimisation, social choice, game theory, and multi-agent systems.

We identify ways to maximise yields in livestock systems for poverty alleviation, global food security and sustainability.

A revolution in healthcare through innovative medical devices and diagnostic technologies.

Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are nano particles for the separation, storage and controlled release of gases and liquids. MOFWORX has been established to commercialise CSIRO’s MOF technology.

CSIRO has been working on the biological control of weeds since the 1920s. We focus on temperate and tropical weeds of natural, agricultural and rangeland ecosystems.

Australia’s only full service protein crystallisation facility.

Older Australians harnessing technology to connect, solve problems, and make the world a better place.

Improving community well-being by researching ways to build adaptive and resilient livelihoods, regions and ecosystems through partnerships.

Registration statements cover cultivars for more than 330 grasses and legumes found in Australia.

Visual detection solutions for sustainable fisheries.

Conducting research to further our understanding, management and protection of coastal and marine ecosystems, whilst using scientific knowledge to empower community and government to reduce litter entering our oceans.

We are searching for alternative cutting methods that allows reducing the size of the excavation machines, without compromising their effectiveness in breaking hard rocks.

Improving the knowledge-base and long-term research infrastructure to support biodiversity conservation and natural resource management in Australia.

Atlantis an ecosystem model that considers all parts of marine ecosystems – biophysical, economic and social.

The Infrastructure Technologies group within CSIRO provides an extensive range of independent testing, assessment and consulting services to support the development of better building products and systems.

Research and development to deliver multi-year climate forecasts for Australia.

ASPIRE (Advisory System for Processing, Innovation & Resource Exchange) is an online marketplace which intelligently matches businesses with potential remanufacturer, purchasers or recyclers of waste resources.

NxtOil technology turns leaves into oil factories.

We develop and apply novel macroecological approaches to biodiversity modelling and conservation assessment.

Connecting with industry to deliver innovations and solutions for sustainable resource development.

We are a research organisation composed of supply chain professionals committed to improving international supply chains for wine.

We are developing gold extraction reagents that don’t cost the Earth, but allow you to open up low grade, uneconomic or stranded deposits.

We offer a unique patent pending method that allows the explorer to rapidly quantify gold amounts during the greenfields exploration phase without having to leave the field.

Positioning Australia to play a role in one of the fastest growing areas of modern science with a wealth of potential for developments in healthcare, industrial biotechnology, agriculture and food research and beyond.

The Crop Adaption Lab Chat seminar series is a casual venue to discuss research about Crop/Plant Physiology, Breeding and Agronomy performed at CSIRO and beyond.

Using a combination of machine learning, molecular simulation and big data management to accelerate new materials discovery.

A central assembly and management point for much of the Division’s vessel-collected data from over the past 25 years, plus related datasets such as those collected via moored instrument arrays in the Australasian region

The Wireless Group focuses on wireless communications, localisation, imaging and sensing for applications from radio astronomy to telecommunications, and industrial safety to medicine.

Researching the material things that interact with the digital world.

The industry standard tool for geological analysis of spectral reflectance data of minerals, rocks and soils.

A technology platform that provides access to CSIRO’s cutting edge research into industrial processing for Australian and international chemical manufacturers.

A repository of CSIRO’s PyroPage bulletins, a bushfire science communication tool intended to provide bushfire practitioners with a rapid summary of critical new research results from CSIRO’s Bushfire Behaviour and Risks team.

We believe in a future where profitable, productive agriculture meets the challenges of our time. Our new natural livestock feed supplement is good for the animals, good for business and good for climate change.

The Networks Group builds technologies to automate and instrument network data extraction and to convert Network Data into Intelligence, with the objective of safely and reliably transform it into valuable services and actions to create new capabilities and economic opportunities for individuals, businesses and organisations.

Waterbird breeding and movements: Knowledge for water managers.

RiskLab at CSIRO’s Data61 provides the avenue for industry to engage directly with the extended network of technologists and academia to come up with innovative solutions and tools in quantitative risk and decisions-under uncertainty.

Sustainable data acquisition from wireless sensors distributed over large spatial scales.

Explore CSIRO’s work on hydrology, climate, gender, livelihoods and ecology across South Asia.

A shallow water based integrated flood tool for urban flood inundation and adaptation.

The Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at CSIRO is one of the leading robotics research groups in the world.

Proposed northern Australia water developments pertinent to the NPF: collation and review.

Enabling the next generation of computational research in the chemical, physical and materials sciences.

The MQCFR project has captured and made accessible current shapefile information on spatial and temporal management within Queensland marine and estuarine waters.

We’re Australia’s leading digital research network, helping our partners across business, government and industry solve real problems every day. Our projects cover a wide range of data-centric R&D.

Reducing production variability by better management of biotic threats.

CSIRO Chile project on Integrated Water Management in the Rapel basin (Plan de Gestión Integrada Cuenca Rapel).

To meet the increasing need for comfortable, energy efficient buildings, we have developed software to help designers and architects model, measure and compare the energy efficiency of house designs.

We are testing a newly developed in home sensory kit and we would like you to get involved.

Explore patented Heat Treatment of High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC-HT) for aluminium alloys on a what-if basis.

Keeping people at the centre of technology innovation.

Explore CSIRO’s past and present climate adaptation research.

CSIRO and The University of Western Australia is conducting the first regional-scale assessment of marine biodiversity in the Pilbara.

CSIRO has introduced a new biological control agent for Crofton weed in Australia. A release program in partnership with the community is underway. We’re looking for people to help out.

Harman is a method for risk-conscious correction of batch effects.

eReefs is a platform that provides a picture of what is currently happening on the reef, and what will likely happen in the future.

Learn about and discuss current agricultural research at CSIRO.

We are developing tools and processes to support decision makers and researchers to diagnose adaptation problems and explore the social, environmental and economic costs and benefits of a range of adaptation initiatives.

Smoke and Fire is an interactive visualisation of air pollution in Australia, particularly shipping plume along the east coast of New South Wales.

A multi-platform computer application developed by CSIRO that enables the easy calculation of expected fire behaviour from burning conditions.

Naturally occurring structural proteins are ‘information-rich’ molecules. Based on the precedent set by nature, these structural proteins provide a rich landscape for the rational design of advanced functional materials.

Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we are bringing together a team of other world leading experts from Switzerland, USA, Germany and Mexico and to develop the techniques to enable cowpea and sorghum plants to reproduce asexually.

We model human decision processes using methods of symbolic representation and reasoning-based processes, and optimize human-machine interaction based upon characterisation and measurement of cognitive performance.

We are revolutionizing the ways in quantitative and explicit 3D material microstructures characterization and properties modelling with unprecedented accuracy and detail.

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are essential for the pollination of about one third of the food we eat – including fruit, vegetables, oils, seeds and nuts – yet globally their heath and ability to pollinate our crops is under serious threat.

Our mission is to be world leaders in novel metal production, surface protection design and in making additive manufacturing more affordable and robust as a manufacturing process.

Managed aquifer recharge plays an important role in integrating the management of surface and groundwater resources for security of water supply while ensuring public health and environmental protection.

The Mine Site Characterisation team has a proven track record and is a leading provider of software to mining professionals such as geologists, geotechnical and blast engineers and surveyors.

CSIRO is undertaking a project to establish guidelines for measuring the performance of Next Generation Photovoltaics.

BHP Billiton Petroleum and CSIRO have formed a strategic marine research partnership to increase the ecological understanding of the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area’s deep and shallow reefs and the reef’s shark and turtle populations.