Wealth from Oceans Flagship: knowing our oceans, securing our future

CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship aims to provide Australians with enduring social, environmental and economic wealth from our vast ocean territory. The Wealth from Oceans Flagship focuses on national challenges where oceans play a central role.

Dr Xiaoming Wang: better planning and management solutions for the built environment

Dr Xiaoming Wang is developing modelling, simulation, monitoring technology and optimal decision-making process in design and management for the built environment in response to climate change.

Water Information Research and Development Alliance

Improving the management of Australia’s water resources through the delivery of value-added water information products.

Flagship Collaboration Fund Clusters

Clusters are the main element of the Flagship Collaboration Fund, which facilitates the involvement of the broader research community in addressing the ambitious goals of the Flagships.

Vizie provides social media monitoring to identify customer needs

Our social media monitoring tool Vizie is transforming the way government agencies listen to, understand and respond to customer feedback from social media.

BLUElink>: reliable ocean forecasting

A research initiative from the Wealth from Oceans Flagship offers maritime users more accurate prediction of ocean conditions.

CSIRO and Boeing's relationship goes from strength to strength

Our alliance with Boeing is bringing together the brightest minds to advance innovation in space sciences, advanced materials, energy and direct manufacturing.

Urban water infrastructure technologies

Developing technologies to improve the nation's water infrastructure to deliver efficient and secure water supply for Australia's growing population and future industries.

The Energy Futures Forum (EFF)

The Energy Futures Forum completed its major objectives and released its final report The heat is on: the future of energy in Australia in December 2006.

Insect imaging system to accelerate species discovery

Scientists around the world are looking for innovative ways to accelerate the identification of new species. CSIRO scientists are developing an automated insect imaging system that will speed up the process of naming thousands of new species every year.

Dr Robert Woodcock: developing simulation software for geoscience problems

Dr Robert Woodcock is a software engineer primarily interested in developing interoperable grid and web services and computational simulation for the geosciences.

Dr James Tickner: expert in applied nuclear physics

Dr James Tickner leads the Nucleonics team that develops novel scientific approaches to solve fundamental problems in industry using nuclear techniques.

CSIRO Complex Systems Science

The CSIRO Complex Systems Science team supports a network of scientists who research complex systems, by providing opportunities for collaboration, sharing of ideas and capacity building.

Climate Adaptation Engineering for cities and coasts symposium 2013

The workshop will focus on integrating climate change science with engineering knowledge to support adaptation in the urban and coastal built environment.

Smart energy

CSIRO's futuristic hardware and software innovations are powering the push to use energy more efficiently and draw it from sustainable sources.

Intelligent Sensing and Systems Laboratory

The Tasmanian ICT Centre has developed a world-class ICT research capacity and conducts innovative applied research in the areas of sensor networks and data management.

Human Services Delivery Research Alliance

CSIRO and the Department of Human Services (DHS) have formed a research alliance to harness the power of science and improve service delivery to more than six million Australians each year.

Protecting the future of Aussie aquaculture farming through new sensor technology

Working together with the University of Tasmania our researchers have developed new bio-sensors that can measure environmental and biological data including the heartbeat of an oyster.

Robotics

Teach something else to do your work for you. CSIRO runs an interactive robotics program for students in Years 5-9 in the Northern Territory.

Brisbane: Pullenvale, Qld (Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies)

The Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT) is a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government. It is a multi-divisional research site where innovative solutions for the mining, manufacturing and energy sectors are produced.

Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI)

Connecting people to the benefits of broadband through innovative services.

Government and Commercial services

Our Government and Commercial Services research team is helping the services sector better understand their business, customers and competitors to make more informed decisions about how they operate and deliver services.

Cutting hospital waiting times

CSIRO software predicts how many patients will arrive at emergency, their medical needs and how many will be admitted or discharged.

Time To Deliver: New science-based approaches to optimise freight transport in Australia

This CSIRO white paper looks at how science can enhance freight logistics and is based on a presentation to the Logistics Association of Australia. (6 pages)

Dr Y Jay Guo: leading CSIRO broadband research

Professor Jay Guo is leading a group of researchers who are creating smarter solutions for Government, business and industry and helping secure Australia's cyber and physical infrastructure.