![Coiled magnesium sheets and magnesium ingots](https://research.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/metals-banner.jpg)
High Performance Metals
February 15, 2016
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.
![A eucalypt lined irrigation channel](https://research.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BU5088.jpg)
Managed aquifer recharge
February 15, 2016
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.
![Satellite image](https://research.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/NM0410.jpg)
Mine Site Characterisation & Imaging
February 15, 2016
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.
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Solar Energy Systems Group
February 15, 2016
Making solar a reliable, stable power source for Australia’s energy future – including solar thermal and photovoltaics.
![Fish swimming around an underwater reef](https://research.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0874.jpg)
Ningaloo Outlook
February 15, 2016
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.
![Looking along a boom of an oil rig out at sea](https://research.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/oandg-banner.jpg)
Oil & Gas
February 15, 2016
CSIRO has a long history of research into petroleum systems and technologies used by the oil and gas industry. Our research is aiding Australia’s transition into a clean energy future.
![Lightbulb held between the index fingers of two hands](https://research.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/lightbulb-collaborative-innovation-istock_000022474337large1.jpg)
Open Innovation Research
February 15, 2016
CSIRO is exploring how social networks affect absorptive capacity in open innovation collaborations.
![CO Culture Test strands](https://research.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/co_culture_test_im.jpg)
Quantitative Imaging
February 15, 2016
We invent, apply and deliver new technologies to automate the extraction of useful information from 2D, 3D and 4D images for industrial and scientific applications.
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Software
February 15, 2016
A selection of CSIRO that has been made publicly available. You must create an account on the system before you can download the software. All software provided here is covered by a respective license that you must accept prior to downloading.