What we do

CSIRO Land and Water has nine research programs providing research capability to 14 portfolios and 30 research themes in CSIRO.

Our research programs are:

• Soil and landscape science 
• Surface water hydrology 
• Groundwater hydrology 
• Environmental information systems 
• Environmental Earth observation 
• Catchment biogeochemistry and aquatic ecology 
• Contaminant chemistry and ecotoxicology 
• Water reuse and environmental process engineering 
• Urban water systems engineering

Over 90 per cent of our research capability is deployed in the following portfolios:

• Water for a Healthy Country Flagship
• Sustainable Agriculture Flagship  
• Wealth from Oceans Flagship

We also contribute to:

• Minerals Down Under Flagship
• Climate Adaptation Flagship
• Transformational Capability Platforms:
  • Advanced materials
  • Transformational biology
  • Computational and simulation sciences
  • Sensors and sensor network technologies.