CSIRO Media Releases
2002
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20/12/2002 - Surviving the
drought - Scientifically-based farm management is
helping Australian farmers survive one of the worst
droughts this century and cut drought recovery times by
2-3 years.
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20/12/2002 - Research accepts
leadership challenge - A young Darwin scientist has
been recognised as having the drive and commitment to
make a long-term difference to Australian rural
industries.
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19/12/2002 - New framework for
water - CSIRO scientists are proposing a landmark
national water trading framework to define water rights
for irrigation.
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19/12/2002 - World-leading fire
expert for CSIRO Laboratories - One of the world"s
leading fire scientists has been appointed to the
position of Head of Fire Science at CSIRO"s Fire Science
& Technology Laboratory based at North Ryde, Sydney.
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19/12/2002 - Sex and
diamonds-research to benefit Australia - The sex
pheromones of the diamondback moth and a fungus may save
Australia millions of dollars.
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16/12/2002 - FedSat launched
successfully from Japan - CSIRO researchers have
helped Australia blast back into space research by
playing key roles in the development of the FedSat
satellite, which was launched successfully from Japan on
Saturday (December 14).
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12/12/2002 - Salt-tolerant wheat
has ancient roots - A variety of wheat from ancient
Persia has been used to successfully breed the world"s
first salt-tolerant durum wheat variety.
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12/12/2002 - CSIRO welcomes new
CRCs - The Chief Executive of CSIRO, Dr Geoff Garrett
has welcomed the Federal Government"s announcement of 30
successful Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) grants and
an injection of $478 million into the CRC Program.
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11/12/2002 - Seabed ore turns to
Chairman's gold - The CSIRO Chairman"s Gold
Medal for 2002 has been awarded to Dr Ray Binns and his
team for their work in exploring and understanding active
mineral formation on the deep ocean floor.
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09/12/2002 - Scientists track
seafaring lobsters - Marine scientists are tracing
the 2000-kilometre journey of billions of lobster larvae
in the swirling currents off northern Australia, to help
safeguard the future of Queensland"s $7 million ornate
rock lobster fishery.
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06/12/2002 - New generation
chicken antibiotic alternative - A new generation
"natural" treatment to protect chickens against infection
could soon phase out the use of antibiotics in the
poultry industry which is good news for consumers
concerned about their use.
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06/12/2002 - CSIRO Cotton
Software Wins National Award - Cotton-crop management
software developed for use on the Palm Operating
System® (Palm OS®), or "handheld"
computers, to help farmers reduce their pesticide use,
has won a major national information technology award.
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05/12/2002 - CSIRO support for
National Research Priorities - Chief Executive of the
CSIRO Dr Geoff Garrett has welcomed the announcement by
Prime Minister John Howard of funding for Australia"s
National Research Priorities.
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03/12/2002 - New Survival
System for Australia's Fire Fighters - In a
world-first, NSW Rural Fire Service and the Country Fire
Authority of Victoria, working with CSIRO researchers,
have developed and proved a new fire truck protection
system which will help fire fighters survive being caught
in a bush fire.
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02/12/2002 - Innovative foods
centre launched - A new centre for Australian
research into technologies which will produce safer, more
nutritious foods, will be launched this morning at Food
Science Australia"s facility in Werribee, Victoria.
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28/11/2002 - Tender beef gene
test a world-first - The steak knife is destined for
the scrap heap.
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27/11/2002 - Big greenhouse
savings possible locally - Australian local
government and industry can make major inroads into the
nation"s greenhouse gas output and energy efficiency by
generating electricity on-site.
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26/11/2002 - Watch the eclipse
on the net - It"s been 26 years since Australians
experienced a total solar eclipse. On 4 December, it is
happening again.
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26/11/2002 - CSIRO appoints New
Health Sciences and Nutrition Chief - CSIRO Chief
Executive, Dr Geoff Garrett, today announced the
appointment of Dr Graeme Woodrow as the new Chief of the
Division of Health Sciences and Nutrition.
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25/11/2002 - Celebrating innovative
science in Victorian schools - Four students from St
Michael"s Grammar School will be presented with CREST
Awards at the annual CSIRO CREST Awards Celebration in
Melbourne tomorrow.
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22/11/2002 - Celebrating 30
years of cotton research - CSIRO"s Cotton Research
Unit in Narrabri celebrates its 30th anniversary this
Friday, 22 November.
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22/11/2002 - GM sheep grow
bigger, produce more milk and wool - The first
research of its type in Australia has concluded that
genetically modified sheep grow bigger and faster,
produce double the amount of milk, can grow more wool,
but require more care.
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21/11/2002 - Nuclear probe may
be new weapon against acid mine drainage, salinity -
A nuclear probe developed by CSIRO for minerals
exploration and mining may soon be used to combat some of
the world"s biggest environmental problems.
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21/11/2002 - Innovation: an
opportunity for Western Australia - Australia needs
to evolve to a ¿systems¿ approach to
innovation, one that focuses on the linkages between the
people that will make it happen, according to CSIRO
Chairman, Catherine Livingstone.
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19/11/2002 - Great expectations
for international maths congress - The world"s
premier meeting of applied mathematicians - the 5th
International Congress on Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (ICIAM) - is being held in Sydney next year
and promises to be one of the biggest scientific events
ever held in the city.
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18/11/2002 - Ocean robots
watching our climate - A new array of ocean robots
has begun working deep in the Indian Ocean to help
scientists understand Australia"s changing climate.
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14/11/2002 - New map of Australia
provides answers to corrosion - Australian scientists
have joined forces with a major Australian corporation to
launch a new mapping system that predicts corrosion in
any part of Australia, including all 14,700 towns and
suburbs.
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14/11/2002 - THE book on
sheep nutrition - Two scientists at the CSIRO
Division of Plant Industry have launched a book that is
set to become the standard work on sheep nutrition.
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14/11/2002 - Land management guide
for grassy woodlands - Land degradation and the loss
of native animal and plant species are significant
environmental problems associated with farming and
grazing in the grassy woodlands regions of eastern
Australia.
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13/11/2002 - Virtual
surgery across the world - CSIRO scientists today
"reached" across the globe to demonstrate real-time
virtual surgical training.
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11/11/2002 - Reading the rice
dictionary - CSIRO Plant Industry is facilitating an
international effort to decode the meaning of each rice
gene at the "Towards Building a Global Rice Gene Machine"
workshop in Canberra, 11-12 November 2002.
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07/11/2002 - Dial P for parking -
no coins required - CSIRO has developed my-T-phone -
a new way of paying for parking which has the potential
to do away with parking meters, boom gates and lost
parking slips for ever.
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06/11/2002 - Forging our
future - CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Geoff Garrett
delivered a National Press Club Telstra Address on
Wednesday, 6 November 2002.
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06/11/2002 - CSIRO's ICT
expertise on show - A video-based "face-recognition"
system which could revolutionise security operations at
public venues, is just one of 25 outstanding IT projects
CSIRO will be exhibiting during e-Government Week (11-14
November) at Parliament House, Canberra.
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04/11/2002 - Future dilemmas for
Australia's population - Australia is at the
crossroads in having to make some key decisions
surrounding population levels, resource use and
evironmental quality.
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04/11/2002 - 'MEDIA
ALERT' Bushland on life support - Scientists
at CSIRO Plant Industry are breathing life back into
degraded patches of native bushland by identifying ways
to increase its survival, health and re-establishment.
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01/11/2002 - Tiny exotic beetle
could devastate honey production - Honey production
and hive management in Australia could change forever
following the identification by CSIRO of a new exotic
pest of bee hives.
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25/10/2002 - CSIRO appoints new
Atmospheric Research Chief - CSIRO Chief Executive,
Dr Geoff Garrett, today announced the appointment of Dr
Greg Ayers as the new Chief of the Division of
Atmospheric Research.
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25/10/2002 - CSIRO appoints new
Atmospheric Research Chief - CSIRO Chief Executive,
Dr Geoff Garrett, today announced the appointment of Dr
Greg Ayers as the new Chief of the Division of
Atmospheric Research.
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25/10/2002 - CSIRO to help
Victoria manage energy consumption - A mixture of
common sense and good energy management can help
Australians prevent power blackouts while reducing both
electricity consumption and cost. This can potentially
save millions of dollars a year and reduce greenhouse
emissions.
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25/10/2002 - Rangeland
biodiversity: getting the science right - Rangeland
plants and animals may be seriously threatened by human
activities before we even realise they are in trouble,
says CSIRO"s Dr Craig James.
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24/10/2002 - New composites
process could revolutionise car industry - An example
of the potential a new low-cost Australian composite
manufacturing process has to revolutionise the world
automobile industry is on display at the Sydney
International Motor Show (17-27 October).
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23/10/2002 - One man's
waste water could be one farmer's treasure -
The results of a recently completed study show that
recycled water from sewage treatment plants could help
Darling Downs farmers who are facing critical water
shortages.
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22/10/2002 - The law and
ecological services - Australia"s leaderhip in
research into ecosystems "services" - the natural
processes which purify air and water, mitigate floods and
droguhts, and renew soil fertility - has brought leading
US environmental law expert James E. Salzman to Sydney as
a Fulbr
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22/10/2002 - New wheat gives
bigger yields - even in drought - A new variety of
high-grade wheat capable of increasing grain yields in
drought-affected areas by up to 10 per cent was released
at the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute today.
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21/10/2002 - Sunlight and
natural gas in new energy source - CSIRO scientists
have combined solar energy and natural gas in a novel
process capable of producing large-scale energy to power
Australia"s future industrial and domestic needs.
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21/10/2002 - Students get the
science bug - Canberra high school students, Philip
Fraser and Andrew Muller have first hand experience of
what a career in science has to offer.
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17/10/2002 - New Senior
Appointments at CSIRO - CSIRO Chief Executive, Dr
Geoff Garrett has announced four new senior appointments
to the Organisation.
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17/10/2002 - Fire risk as African
grass invades top end - Increased fire risk is one
result of an invasion of African grass.
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15/10/2002 - New health benefits
from dietary fibre - Dietary fibre - already known to
reduce the risk of colon cancer - may also have the
potential to replace antibiotics, lower cholesterol and
control blood sugar levels, according to emerging new
Australian research.
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11/10/2002 - It's a win
win - Australian technology is helping a leading
Japanese corporation open up new export markets that will
directly benefit both Japan and Australia.
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10/10/2002 - Centre for life
sciences is born - A new centre designed to ensure
that scientists continue groundbreaking research in life
sciences to support Australian and international
industries will be launched in Sydney, NSW, today
(Thursday, 10 October 2002).
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04/10/2002 - Mini black hole
may help explain massive ones - Scientists using
CSIRO"s Australia Telescope and NASA"s Chandra X-ray
Observatory have watched a mini black hole in our Galaxy
shoot out "jets" of particles like a cosmic water-pistol.
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03/10/2002 - Major advance in
fight against world's greatest killer - In a
significant advance, scientists have discovered some of
the genes responsible for the development of insecticide
resistance in mosquitoes. The findings will play an
important role in combating the world"s biggest killer,
malaria.
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02/10/2002 - CSIRO scientist wins
prestigious greenhouse gas award - CSIRO scientist Dr
John Carras has won the Australian Coal Association
Research Program (ACARP) Research Excellence Award 2002
for an important aspect of his work in greenhouse gas
reduction.
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02/10/2002 - Local Farmer
Showcases CSIRO Research - NSW farmer, Bernard Hart,
is hosting a field day to highlight the research
achievements of CSIRO Plant Industry in improving
agricultural production.
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01/10/2002 - New era in
livestock research - CSIRO"s Chief Executive Officer,
Dr Geoff Garrett, launched a new Temperate Livestock
Systems Program today (1 October) in Armidale. At the
opening of the CSIRO"s upgraded rural research laboratory
- the F D McMaster Laboratory, Chiswick - Dr Garrett said
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01/10/2002 - CSIRO scholarships
foster scientific talent - CSIRO is offering around
50 post-graduates the opportunity to win scholarships
aimed at encouraging young Australian scientists and
engineers to pursue research careers.
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30/09/2002 - Camden White
Gum - can we save it? - The future of one of
Australia"s most endangered species of eucalypt, the
tall, white and elegant Camden White Gum is looking more
secure.
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30/09/2002 - Plant Invaders
in Australia - Weeds are a major threat to
Australia"s biodiversity. But it is not only introduced
plants that are posing a problem, our agricultural crops
and even some of our natives are getting away.
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27/09/2002 - Extraordinary award for
irrigation research - The development of a technique
that significantly reduces water use in irrigated
horticultural crops has won CSIRO Plant Industry
researcher, Dr Brian Loveys, a rare industry award.
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27/09/2002 - Bizarre flies,
biodiversity and the meaning of life - The fifth
International Congress of Dipterology (the study of
flies, mosquitoes and related insects) is being hosted by
The University of Queensland and starts on Monday. The
world"s leading fly experts will meet and share their
knowledge in fields such
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26/09/2002 - New agent hits the
ground chewing - The battle against one of
Australia"s worst environmental weeds, Mimosa pigra will
intensify this week with the release of a new biological
control agent.
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25/09/2002 - Lessons in
foot-and-mouth disease management - The lessons to be
learned by Australia from last year"s foot-and-mouth
disease (FMD) outbreak in the UK will be the topic of a
lecture tonight at CSIRO"s Australian Animal Health
Laboratory in Geelong.
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24/09/2002 - Experts
advance upon the sensitive giant - Can the invasion
of the giant sensitive plant, Mimosa pigra be
halted in the wetlands of the Mekong Delta? Can remote
sensing technology detect small outbreaks of Mimosa and
what impact has biocontrol had on Mimosa management so
far?
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20/09/2002 - Melbourne Team
makes landmark biomedical discovery - A team of
Australian scientists has won the race to determine the
three dimensional structure of an important protein
molecule in humans.
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19/09/2002 - Learning to
control deadly viruses - CSIRO has joined an
international research program aimed at preventing
further outbreaks of the deadly Nipah virus and Hendra
virus.
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18/09/2002 - Forget
postage-stamp patches on salinity: CSIRO -
Remediation must be applied to entire catchments, not as
scattered postage-stamp patches across the continent,
says CSIRO"s Dr Mirko Stauffacher.
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17/09/2002 - Reviving our
heartlands - A program that combines landscape
renewal with strategic research and development will be
the focus of an Open Day at a property near Violet Town,
Victoria, on September 18th. The day is being hosted by
the Goulburn-Broken Catchment Management Authority (
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17/09/2002 - A coin's
eye view of day in the Aussie Outback - Australian
scientists have produced a new outback experience
captured in the latest collectors" coin from the Royal
Australian Mint.
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17/09/2002 - More milk for
India - The milk production capacity of India"s dairy
herd could rise by millions of litres a day following the
success of a joint research project involving scientists
from CSIRO and India"s National Dairy Development Board.
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16/09/2002 - Looking underground
for revegetation solutions - CSIRO Plant Industry is
helping to "re-green" Australia by using soil bacteria to
establish healthier native trees more quickly.
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13/09/2002 - Australia and Japan
in space science mission - The first satellite built
in Australia in over thirty years, FedSat, will carry out
joint scientific experiments for both Australia and
Japan.
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06/09/2002 - A diversity
of biodiversity - September is biodiversity month and
Australia is one of the most biologically diverse
countries in the world.
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06/09/2002 - CSIRO to help
ease NASA's "traffic jam" - When six
spacecraft besiege Mars in early 2004, CSIRO will help
NASA catch as much data from them as possible.
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06/09/2002 - Sharks wired for
sound and survival - One of Australia"s friendliest
sharks is now listed as critically endangered, largely as
a result of mistaken identity.
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05/09/2002 - Big brother for
farmers - Satellites in daily orbit 700 kilometres
above Earth are providing Australian farmers with key new
management tools.
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03/09/2002 - New UK alliance for
assault on global engineering - A formidable world
force in fluids engineering has emerged with the signing
of an alliance between the UK"s BHR Group (BHRG) and
Australia"s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific &
Industrial Research Organisation).
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02/09/2002 - Botanical
Treasures - unlocking the many values of Australian
plants - Australia is a veritable treasure trove of
valuable plants - some known and some yet to be
discovered. Botanists are playing a vital role in modern
plant discovery that could lead to many environmental and
economic benefits for Australians.
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02/09/2002 - Australia's research at
your fingertips - Information from over 2.5 million
web pages of over 200 different Australian research
organisations is at everyone"s fingertips, thanks to
CSIRO"s Research Finder.
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02/09/2002 - New species of owl
found - Two Australian researchers have solved one of
the more perplexing ornithological mysteries of the
Indonesian archipelago.
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02/09/2002 - Development company
for antibiotic alternatives - An Australian research
and development company, VectoGen Limited, has acquired
exclusive worldwide licenses from CSIRO to a suite of
platform vaccine and therapeutic technologies for use in
animals.
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30/08/2002 - CSIRO appoints
new media manager - CSIRO"s Director of Communication
is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Forbes
as CSIRO"s new Media Manager.
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29/08/2002 - Water use
'closing off future options' -
Decisions taken by Australians today about water may
close off options for future generations, a leading CSIRO
water scientist has warned.
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29/08/2002 - "Death of distance"
heralded - The tyranny of distance that has ruled
over Australia"s inland and remote regions for two
centuries is nearing the end of its oppressive reign.
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28/08/2002 - Desert knowledge: a
hot new export - Australia has a hot new export
product - knowledge about how to live, work and be
sustainable in desert conditions.
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28/08/2002 - Native foods: headed
for world success - Australian native foods may one
day make as big an impact on global cuisine as
Australia"s excellent table wines on the beverage market.
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26/08/2002 - Governor John
Landy to launch Waterbugs - The tiny, spineless
creatures which inhabit Australia"s rivers, creeks and
billabongs are revealed in a new publication just
released by CSIRO Publishing The Waterbug
Book: A Guide to the Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of
Temperate Australia.
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26/08/2002 - Forest
growers' kit solves greenhouse puzzles -
Australia"s private foresters will now be able to make
more informed plantation management decisions simply by
utilising a new kit developed by CSIRO.
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22/08/2002 - Better use of the
body's disease alarms - A CSIRO study of the
"disease-alarm" function of farm animals" immune systems
will begin next year following the presentation of an
AFFA Science and Innovation Award for Young People to Dr
Aaron Ingham of CSIRO Livestock Industries, Geelong.
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22/08/2002 - Tackling drench
resistance - One of three CSIRO researchers presented
yesterday with AFFA Science and Innovation Awards for
Young People, Ms Kerri Tyrrell, will use her award to
test whether a blend of existing drugs can effectively
control worm parasites in sheep.
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22/08/2002 - Healthy ants: healthy
country - A project that uses ants to tell us more
about landscape health is one of the winning research
proposals in this year"s AFFA Science and Innovation
Awards for Young People.
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19/08/2002 - Strategy to boost
biotechnology's market share - A major
strategy statement designed to ensure Australia becomes a
stronger global competitor in the field of
biotechnological research and development was launched by
the CSIRO today at the AusBiotech2002 Conference in
Melbourne.
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19/08/2002 - CSIRO brings biotech
to Australia's farmers - CSIRO is embracing
biotechnological advances and developing strategies to
ensure the results are used effectively by Australian
farmers, according to Livestock Industries Division
Chief, Mr Shaun Coffey.
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16/08/2002 - Energy usage:
counting the costs - Australians are coming together
to count up their energy usage to gain a national
"picture" of greenhouse gas emissions produced by
Australian households.
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16/08/2002 - Search for
elusive freshwater sharks - Where have all
Australia"s freshwater sharks and sawfish gone?
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15/08/2002 - Palm-off cotton
pest problems to 'CottonLogic' -
Australian cotton farming is set for a cleaner, greener
and more profitable future with the launch today (15
August) of an upgraded, handheld-computer version of the
"CottonLOGIC" software system.
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15/08/2002 - Fungal threat to
eucalypt forests - The eucalypt forests and woodlands
are at risk from an exotic disease - a rust fungus
capable of attacking a broad range of our unique
vegetation.
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13/08/2002 - New $2 million
program to strengthen CSIRO¿University
linkages - A new $2 million postdoctoral Fellowship
program will strengthen linkages between universities and
the CSIRO and produce economic and scientific benefits
for Australia. The Australian Research Council and the
CSIRO announced that up to 10 ARC Postdoctoral
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09/08/2002 - Beefing-up
beef's banquet of flavours - In a bid to
enable beef producers to better target specific markets
for their product, scientists from Food Science Australia
are working with the meat industry to investigate the
influence of steer diet on beef flavour.
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08/08/2002 - New system uses mine
waste to generate clean power - New technology for
generating power from coal mining waste was launched by
the Federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources,
the Hon. Ian Macfarlane, at CSIRO in Brisbane today.
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08/08/2002 - Mimosa under
attack - One of Australia"s worst environmental weeds
is under attack.
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06/08/2002 - Know your local
sharks and rays - Australia"s commercial fishing
industry is embracing new initiatives to sustainably
manage and conserve the 300 species of sharks and rays in
Australian waters.
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06/08/2002 - Why plants change
their name - blame the botanists! - Why do the names
of plants change? The Centre for Plant Biodiversity
Research plans to expose botanists as the primary
culprits as it presents "What"s Its Name?" - the first of
the "Biodiversity Bites" public lectures.
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05/08/2002 - Helping business
realise net potential - The CSIRO-Macquarie Internet
Innovation Centre, a one-stop shop for solutions in
Internet-related services, was officially opened by NSW
IT Minister, the Hon Kim Yeadon MP today.
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05/08/2002 - 'Knowledge
gap' a threat to world stability - The
widening gap between the minority with access to modern
scientific knowledge and technologies, and the vast
majority of people who lack such access, is a threat to
future global stability.
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05/08/2002 - What the cockies
tells us - Black cockatoos have a clear message for
Australia"s farmers and natural resource managers.
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02/08/2002 - Black
holes' fatal attraction triggers
galaxies' change of heart - Supermassive
black holes at the hearts of large galaxies merge when
their host galaxies do, say Professor David Merritt of
Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Professor Ron Ekers
of CSIRO"s Australia Telescope National Facility in
Sydney, Australia.
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31/07/2002 - Aid to
farm-forestry tree selection - The CSIRO has produced
a report designed to enhance the longer term prospects of
Australia"s successful farm-forestry industry.
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31/07/2002 - Grapes target of
wasp's wrath - Canberra"s cool-climate
vineyards could be a target for further invasion by the
dreaded European wasp, if vigilance is not maintained.
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30/07/2002 - Federation
Fellowships for CSIRO scientists - Two CSIRO
scientists are among 11 researchers named yesterday by
the Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon
Dr Brendan Nelson MP, as recipients of the Commonwealth
Government"s most prestigious research awards -
Federation Fellowships.
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29/07/2002 - The future of
Australian Agriculture: Fenner Conference 2002 - Dr
John Williams, Chief of CSIRO Land and Water, will speak
at the Australian Academy of Science"s Fenner Conference
on the Environment, Agriculture for the Australian
Environment in Canberra tomorrow.
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24/07/2002 - COSMIC®
safety a down-to-earth matter - CSIRO and the
Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) are working
together to ensure a new grain fumigant developed by the
CSIRO can be released in Australia and, potentially, onto
lucrative overseas markets.
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24/07/2002 - Wildlife comes out of
the glass case - Australia"s wildlife is on the move.
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23/07/2002 - Scientists zero in on
'green revolution' gene - A team of
CSIRO Plant Industry scientists has isolated the gene
that produces the shorter, more productive, varieties of
rice that led the "green revolution" in the 1960s.
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22/07/2002 - New drug discovery
spin-off from CSIRO - CSIRO Entomology today
announced the establishment of a company dedicated to
producing a wide range of therapeutic drugs from a
virtually untapped source - insects.
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19/07/2002 - Presenting a
smorgasbord of food science - Squeezing microbes to
death and packaging which "talks" are among recent
developments to be discussed by Food Science Australia
scientists during the 35th Annual Australian Institute of
Food Science and Technology (AIFST) Convention in Sydney,
from 21-24
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18/07/2002 - Seminar on
boosting food business profits through R & D -
More than 100 Victorian food manufacturers will attend a
free Challenge 2005 seminar, at Werribee on 19 July, to
learn how working together with research and development
providers can improve their profits.
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18/07/2002 - Call for national bid
to save water - Australia, the world"s driest
continent, currently wastes 92 per cent of its city
runoff and 86 per cent of its effluent water, a leading
water scientist has warned.
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17/07/2002 - CSIRO welcomes
new Animal Health Lab Director - An internationally
renowned expert in the detection and control of animal
diseases, Dr Martyn Jeggo, has been appointed Director of
CSIRO"s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in
Geelong, Victoria.
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17/07/2002 - Many maths minds to meet
in Sydney - In just under one year, Sydney will
become a temporary home for 2000 of the world"s leading
mathematicians.
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16/07/2002 - CSIRO boosts
manufacturing & infrastructure support - Major
shared customers and markets in key industrial sectors
are behind CSIRO"s creation of a new super division,
which combines manufacturing and building and
construction engineering. The name of the new Division is
CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastruct
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15/07/2002 - CSIRO appoints
new business executive director - CSIRO has appointed
growth expert and former McKinsey partner Mr Mehrdad
Baghai as the new Executive Director, Business
Development and Commercialisation.
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12/07/2002 - Our old,
flat, salty land: how many people? - Population
pressure will play a major role in the future of our old,
flat, salty landscape, says researcher, John Williams,
who calls for a revolution in Australia"s land use.
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09/07/2002 - Beetle on warpath
against bridal creeper - The release today of a
foliage-eating beetle in Western Australia marks the
third full-frontal attack mounted by the CRC for Weed
Management Systems against one of Australia"s most
destructive plant pests - bridal creeper.
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08/07/2002 - Whale shark being
tracked on epic ocean voyage - The first steps by an
Australian research team to track the giants of the shark
world - whale sharks - are underway in the eastern Indian
Ocean.
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03/07/2002 - $20 million crop
protection alliance - A $20 million agreement was
signed today that will ensure science and industry
combine forces to further protect the future of
Australia"s grains industry.
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02/07/2002 - 'Shoo-fly' campaign
account released - Queensland"s Department of Primary
Industries" role in eradicating what was potentially
Australia"s worst insect pest incursion has been
chronicled in a new book: Fruit Fly Fighters:
Eradication of the Papaya Fruit Fly.
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02/07/2002 - Wiring up the
global city - Sydney"s reputation as a "Global City"
comes a step closer with the signing of an agreement to
build the next major segment of Australia"s "super"
network.
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01/07/2002 - Warning on
Adelaide's coastal waters - Heavy losses of
sea grasses, murky water, erosion and pollution from
storm water, wastewater and industrial discharges are
among the warning signs for Adelaide"s coastal waters,
according to preliminary findings of the Adelaide Coastal
Waters Study manage
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01/07/2002 - Tree hollows hold
biodiversity key - More than three hundred species of
Australian birds, frogs, reptiles and mammals use tree
hollows for breeding and shelter. And, according to
researchers, there are fewer and fewer tree hollows to go
around.
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01/07/2002 - CSIRO full steam
ahead - CSIRO today announced that it has achieved
its higher external revenue targets as part of its
strategy to deliver more science and commercial outcomes
to the benefit of Australia.
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28/06/2002 - Angling to avoid toxic
algae - Overstocking of fish for recreational fishing
in Australian lakes and rivers may unleash blooms of
toxic algae, a CSIRO scientist has warned.
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28/06/2002 - CSIRO welcomes
new Board members - CSIRO Chairman, Ms Catherine
Livingstone and CSIRO Chief Executive, Dr Geoff Garrett,
have welcomed the appointment of three new members to the
CSIRO Board.
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27/06/2002 - Climate in a
computer - CSIRO has developed one of the world"s
most sophisticated computer-based climate models.
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24/06/2002 - Evergen targets
recyclable buildings - Australian scientists have
launched a new project to galvanise Australia"s property,
building and construction industry to embrace
sustainability.
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24/06/2002 - Baby burrowing
bettongs mark ten years at home - A thousand baby
burrowing bettongs mark the tenth anniversay of the
return of the endangered native to the Australian
mainland.
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21/06/2002 - CSIRO and Hatch sign
alliance agreement - Australia"s pre-eminent research
organisation, the CSIRO, and one of Australia"s leading
engineering services and management consulting groups,
Hatch, have signed an agreement to cooperate on a range
of R&D assignments for clients in the resources sec
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19/06/2002 - New company
to promote high-pressure food preservation - A new
company established to promote an innovative
high-pressure food preservation technology throughout the
Australian food industry was launched in Adelaide today
by the Minister for Small Business, the Hon. Jane
Lomax-Smith.
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19/06/2002 - CSIRO launches
one-stop science shop - The CSIRO Centre for
Environment and Life Sciences will be a gateway to CSIRO
expertise not only in Western Australia but across
Australia, says CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Geoff Garrett.
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18/06/2002 - Enterprise
Java Beans jumping into the mainstream - Application
server technology is maturing quickly and real
differences are emerging between competing products
according to a CSIRO report released today.
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14/06/2002 - Smart solutions
for clearer vision - Australian scientists have
developed a permanent contact lens to improve poor
vision. The synthetic lens can be surgically implanted to
provide permanent, but reversible, correction of
refractive error.
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13/06/2002 - Drought: air
pollution link found - Air pollution is likely to
have contributed to the catastrophic Sahel drought in
Africa, says an Australian researcher.
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13/06/2002 - Hairy treatments
for winter ills - Australian scientists are
investigating new ways to mass-produce the active
ingredients found in the herbal medicines - Echinacea,
Ginseng and Gynostemma. Extracts from these plants are
commonly used to stimulate the immune system, alleviate
cold and flu
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11/06/2002 - Honour for
mathematical scientist - The power of mathematics has
been recognised in this year"s Queen"s Birthday Honours.
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10/06/2002 - Aussie science on show
to the world - Computer aided technology to design
new drugs for the treatment of cancer and diabetes is one
of the highlights of Australian science on display at Bio
2002 in Toronto, Canada this week.
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05/06/2002 - Snakes
alive mark Science-by-Email birthday - Hovering
chocolates and live snakes will mark the first birthday
of CSIRO"s Science by Email.
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05/06/2002 - World
Environment Day: CSIRO shows research - Greenhouse
awards, biological control of Australia"s worst weeds and
solutions to one of the world"s biggest industrial waste
headaches are just a few of the environmental stories on
CSIRO"s World Environment Day web site.
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03/06/2002 - Fishy solutions
to a busy life - Scientists have created innovative
fish products that convert under-utilised fish species
into valuable ready to heat and serve meals.
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31/05/2002 - Global aluminium
waste headache solved - An Australian research team
has solved one of the world"s big industrial waste
headaches - what to do with spent pot lining (SPL) from
aluminium smelters.
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29/05/2002 - Metals - the
'new renewables' - Metals can help in
achieving globally sustainable development, two leading
Australian researchers claimed today.
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27/05/2002 - World award for
greenhouse project - The city of Newcastle has won a
World Environment Day Award, with help from CSIRO energy
scientist.
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23/05/2002 - Out Fox outfoxes
Tassie's foxes - Out Fox is a new program
designed to nip Tasmania"s potential fox threat in the
bud. It will be launched on May 27 and will be run on
farms and community centres, and teach the Tasmanian
public how to identify and detect foxes.
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22/05/2002 - Green minerals:
way of the future - Australia"s mineral industry is
positioning itself to be at the forefront of the
international quest to eliminate pollution and cut waste.
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17/05/2002 - Equipment built at
"the dish" goes to China - On Monday 20 May staff at
CSIRO"s Parkes Observatory - home of "the Dish" - will
pack a special delivery for the Urumqi Astronomical
Observatory in far western China.
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16/05/2002 - Gamma-ray burst
mystery solved: exploding stars the culprit -
Australian telescopes have helped provide the clinching
evidence that gamma-ray bursts - the biggest bangs in the
Universe - are produced when massive stars explode and
their cores collapse to form black holes.
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15/05/2002 - Tales of
Australian science heroes - The spirit of discovery
that impelled some of the finest of Australia"s
scientists to put their country at the world forefront in
the race for knowledge is the topic of a gripping new
book, to be launched by the Prime Minister, The Hon John
Howard, MP
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15/05/2002 - Billion dollar
benefit from grains research - Returns to the
Australian grain industry from research by the CSIRO
Stored Grain Research Laboratory will exceed $2 billion
by 2025, says John Kerin.
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13/05/2002 - Making
concrete with glass - now possible - Australian
scientists have given the green light to using waste
glass in concrete construction. This means local council,
recyclers, municipal engineers, and private contractors
can look at using glass concrete for a range of
construction applications in
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13/05/2002 - Seafood retains
healthy oil after cooking: CSIRO - There"s more good
news on the "good oils" in seafood . . . cooking doesn"t
diminish the high level of beneficial oils found in
seafood, according to research released today by CSIRO.
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10/05/2002 - Mum's the word
on children's development - Australian
scientists will work with mothers to get valuable
insights into the development of children"s thought
processes.
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10/05/2002 - Virtual reality
centre for WA research & training - A new high
performance computer visualisation centre to focus on the
application of interactive virtual environments into
major industries was opened in Perth today by the Hon. Dr
Geoff Gallop MLA, Premier of Western Australia.
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07/05/2002 - 'SolarScan' for earlier
skin cancer detection - A new Australian device
stands to svae thousands of lives by helping GPs diagnose
melanoma.
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03/05/2002 - Big brothers
watch research vehicles - Research vehicles in remote
outback areas can be tracked on the Internet, using new
Vehicle Tracking Equipment (VTE).
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02/05/2002 - Unearthing
salt's deadly ambushes - Saline timebombs are
ticking deep in buried fossil riverbeds beneath the
surface of modern Victoria.
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01/05/2002 - Exposing
Victoria's hot, violent past - Victoria"s
past, when it was the hottest, most violent part of
Australia, holds the key to its prosperity and
sustainability in future.
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01/05/2002 - Patching up the
native 'gene pool' - Two of
Australia"s most threatened ecosystems, grasslands and
heathlands, are the target of a new scientific
conservation effort.
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01/05/2002 - Beetle beats
Jurassic dinosaur - In what may be a world first, an
Australian entomologist has shown that size does not
always count. A humble beetle from Madagascar has
overcome the might of a Jurassic dinosaur in the battle
for naming rights.
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01/05/2002 - Invention: the
critical one per cent - A new grain fumigant to
replace ozone-depleting methyl bromide is just one of the
break throughs from CSIRO Entomology recognised at this
week"s Australian Innovation Festival.
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30/04/2002 - Victoria's next gold
rush - Victoria"s mighty Gold Rush may be scheduled
for a re-run. A further 5,000 tonnes of the precious
metal - twice what has already been dug up in the past
150 years - is thought by scientists to still lie hidden
beneath the impassive landscape of the Murray
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30/04/2002 - Quirk of
nature shows bunch of promise - A naturally occurring
dwarf grapevine may be the key to vines producing more
fruit for less cost.
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30/04/2002 - CSIRO's
Peacock to head academy - Dr Jim Peacock of CSIRO
Plant Industry has been elected to head the Australian
Academy of Science.
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29/04/2002 - Victoria to
be slashed in two - A team of earth scientists is
planning to slice the State of Victoria clean in half -
for its own ultimate good.
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29/04/2002 - Sustainable
water management at Freshwater Beach - CSIRO is
taking a lead role in an innovative water cycle project
that will explore new options for urban water
conservation and treatment at Sydney"s Freshwater Beach.
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29/04/2002 - Heart break
cure wins award - A scientist whose discovery is set
to save and improve lives of heart disease sufferers
around the world is this year"s winner of the Sir Ian
McLennan Achievement for Industry Award.
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29/04/2002 - New database to
manage pests better - CSIRO technology is at the
heart of a new database that will enable researchers to
better manage damaging exotic and local plant pests.
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24/04/2002 - Better profits
from wool - Wool producers can significantly increase
their dollar per hectare returns by monitoring wool fibre
as it grows and adopting simple animal husbandry
techniques aimed at improving quality, a series of trials
conducted by CSIRO has found.
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24/04/2002 - R&D the key to a
sustainable, clean energy future - A vision for
Australia to achieve energy sustainability and
independence by converting the nation"s bountiful
endowment of fossil fuels to clean energy was outlined
today by one of Australia"s top energy scientists.
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23/04/2002 - Explorers in
nanospace - While astrophysicists are figuring out
the challenges of travel through outer space, CSIRO
materials researchers are tackling a problem at the
opposite end of the size scale - moving molecules through
nanospace.
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22/04/2002 - Undersea volcanoes
off PNG and Solomons - An international team has made
a string of major new discoveries of deep underwater hot
springs forming new mineral deposits.
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22/04/2002 - Seeing the colour of
the scent - Insect researchers say they will be soon
able to see what it is that a moth smells.
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22/04/2002 - Farm dams: doing it
by the book - Half a million farm dams are a major
feature of Australia"s landscape, and cost an estimated
twenty thousand dollars each, says Barry Lewis, author of
a new book Farm Dams: Planning, Construction and
Maintenance.
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22/04/2002 - Better decisions
yield bigger oil dollars - Australia"s national
science agency, CSIRO, and UK"s Bristol University have
come up with a powerful new way to ease the difficulty
and uncertainty of critical decisions in the oil
industry.
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19/04/2002 - CSIRO commits to
safety changes - CSIRO has made changes to laboratory
equipment and staff procedures following an internal
inquiry into the death of a staff member at CSIRO"s
Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong
last December.
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12/04/2002 - CSIRO tracks the
world's air pollution - CSIRO Atmospheric
Research has released a new version of its air pollution
modelling software system TAPM.
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12/04/2002 - Keep watching out
for wasps! - As we move into autumn, householders are
urged to find and destroy any nests of European wasp in
their yards or houses.
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12/04/2002 - Putting Wagga on the
waterfront - Australia"s country towns could become
the export ports of the future, powered by CSIRO
technology.
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10/04/2002 - US ozone award to
CSIRO scientist - Dr Paul Fraser from CSIRO
Atmospheric Research has won a prestigious 2002 US EPA
Ozone Protection Award. The award has been made in
recognition of Dr Fraser"s "exemplary efforts and
achievements in protecting stratospheric ozone".
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09/04/2002 - Australasia's finest top -
The Escorial Company and CSIRO have produced
Australasia"s finest ever batch of processed wool (top),
measuring just 12.7 microns, using fleeces from Escorial
sheep in Australia and New Zealand.
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08/04/2002 - Biocontrol: from
laboratory to market - The fight against pest animals
has taken another step forward with the expansion of a
company bringing new biological technologies to market.
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08/04/2002 - Water the biggest
issue for next 50 years - Water is the biggest issue
the world has to face in the next 50 years, according to
CSIRO"s Dr Graham Harris, the opening speaker at
Australia"s largest-ever environmental conference -
ENVIRO 2002.
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04/04/2002 - World test for
sustainable soils - Sustainable use of our soils is
being held back worldwide by the lack of a simple test
that can tell farmers, miners, foresters, park
authorities and other managers whether the land in their
care is improving or getting worse.
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04/04/2002 - CSIRO unravels the
secrets of sound - A CSIRO team is expanding our
ideas about how we define and analyse sound.
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04/04/2002 - French flavour
for Australian meat rabbits - A new perspective will
be placed on the Australian meat-rabbit industry at an
upcoming CSIRO Armidale Field Day, where noted French
geneticist M. Hervé Garreau will discuss aspects
of the rabbit industry in Europe and look at the
possibility of a
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03/04/2002 - Science senses art
in the third dimension - CSIRO"s new
artist-in-residence Meredith Walsh will work with a
virtual reality research group to see and manipulate
virtual objects in 3D.
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25/03/2002 - A portable
feast of freshwater fishes - Australia is
world-renowned for the beauty and uniqueness of its
birds, beasts, butterflies and blossoms. But when it
comes to our freshwater fishes, they are far less
well-known than the more "charismatic macrofauna".
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22/03/2002 - World-class
energy centre launched - A world-class energy centre
designed to supply its own power and to showcase the best
of Australian and overseas energy technologies, is to be
launched in Newcastle, NSW, today (Friday, March 22,
2002).
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20/03/2002 - Drill core
'magic' to save millions - Australian
scientists have developed what is believed to be the
world"s first automatic system for mapping the minerals
in drill cores, with potential to save the mining
industry millions of dollars.
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20/03/2002 - Inaugural
biodiversity informatics prize awarded - A Japanese
scientist will be honoured with the first awarding of the
Ebbe Nielsen Prize at a ceremony in Canberra.
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20/03/2002 - Global
observations: seeing is understanding climate -
Future rainfall trends in the Australian region and
long-term changes in global climate will only be
understood once scientists have developed world-wide
ocean observing systems, according to the World Climate
Research Programme.
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18/03/2002 - Apology to
Newsflash subscribers - Unfortunately the last two
CSIRO Newsflash emails sent out to subscribers contained
a link to a non-existent media release. We apologise for
any inconvenience caused by this and would like to thank
subscribers who brought this to our attention.
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15/03/2002 - Deep ocean
losing oxygen - The depths of the Southern Ocean are
slowly being starved of oxygen, Australian climate
scientists have found.
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14/03/2002 - CSIRO report
aids application server selection - Businesses
migrating to Internet delivery of their services may find
the path a little smoother thanks to a new report from
Australia"s CSIRO.
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13/03/2002 - Behind the big dry -
A 27-year dry spell affecting the southwestern part of
australia could be a foretatest of future national
experiences under the Greenhouse Effect.
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13/03/2002 - New wave of
Australian ocean robots - Within the next four years,
3,000 free-floating ocean robots will be deployed in the
oceans around the world, most of them in the Southern
Hemisphere, as part of the next wave of climate alert
systems.
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12/03/2002 - Beating off insect
invaders - Accidental and intentional introductions
of pests and weeds are the cause of billions of dollars
of lost agricultural production and damage to the
environment in Australia every year.
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07/03/2002 - Living off the
rabbit's back - A new luxury fibre industry
could soon open up in Australia using fibres not from
sheep but from rabbits.
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06/03/2002 - Fresh twist for a
premium summer treat - The making of ice cream has
come a long way since the days of the hand churn. Now the
process will take one step further with the development
of high fat cream powders which not only taste and feel
as good as the original cream, but are easier to handle a
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05/03/2002 - Network to
deliver textile innovation - Australian textile and
fibre processing companies have agreed to strengthen an
informal network which aims to enhance collaborative
R&D activities.
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05/03/2002 - "Buried dams" help
clean recycled water - Disease-causing microbes can
effectively be eliminated from recycled water by storing
it underground, new research by CSIRO scientists has
found.
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04/03/2002 - Outfoxing
Tasmania's pest threat - The confirmed
presence of the European Red Fox in Tasmania has raised
fears for the fate of Tasmania"s native mammal
population.
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01/03/2002 - $13M Aussie
technology to fly on European satellite - An
instrument for measuring sea surface temperatures from
space, developed jointly by Australian and UK scientists,
has been successfully launched today aboard the European
earth observation satellite ENVISAT.
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28/02/2002 - Foot-and-mouth
vaccine back on agenda - Diagnostic tests to
differentiate between animals infected with
foot-and-mouth disease and animals vaccinated against the
disease could be much closer following a meeting of
international foot-and-mouth disease scientists in
Geelong in March.
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28/02/2002 - New graphics toolkit
for Pocket PCs - Great graphics for electronic books,
interactive electronic street directories for tourists,
and a new way to deliver detailed engineering drawings in
the field are just three applications that are now a step
closer to the market place.
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26/02/2002 - The latest science
via the net - CSIRO Publishing is revolutionising its
communication of science worldwide. The publishing house
has developed a cost-effective new way of delivering the
world"s latest scientific research online - in an
ePublishing environment.
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25/02/2002 - High level UK
appointment for Aussie scientist - One of Australia"s
leading research managers, Dr Paul Wellings, has accepted
a high level job in a university in the UK.
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22/02/2002 - Old men of the
sea step ashore after a century of science - Four
senior Australian marine scientists, who have made
substantial contributions to the understanding of
national and international biological and oceanographic
issues, are stepping ashore after almost a collective
century of science with CSIRO.
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20/02/2002 - A feast of
lobsters - It was the gourmet"s ultimate fantasy -
millions of lobsters, lobsters by the truckload,
streaming ashore into the waiting arms of astonished
fishermen and researchers.
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19/02/2002 - EvolutionProbe
- the second generation - Australian scientists have
launched a second-generation probe described as the
biggest advance in microscopy since the electron
microscope.
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18/02/2002 - Global climate shift
linked to greenhouse - New evidence is emerging that
greenhouse gases may have tipped the world into a changed
climate pattern, say CSIRO researchers.
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18/02/2002 - Clothes that
know when you've been sleeping - Car seats
that wake up drowsy drivers, bed sheets that monitor your
health, socks that let you know when you are about to do
a tendon, vests that trigger an emergency beacon if you
are dying of exposure - that"s what an eclectic mix of
researchers spent l
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18/02/2002 - Much ado about
robins - What"s black and white and rare all over? If
you didn"t know it was a Hooded Robin, you could have
asked almost anyone in the Corowa or Berrigan Shires of
southern NSW.
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14/02/2002 - Astronomers
find star stretched to bursting point - Astronomers
have found a weird double-star system - a super-fast
spinning pulsar whose gravity has deformed its companion
star into a giant red teardrop.
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14/02/2002 - Elephants to AIDS:
tribute to Roger Short - Elephants were once aquatic
creatures with a trunk that evolved originally as a
snorkel; and it may be possible to develop a simple
ointment to prevent infection with the AIDS virus.
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13/02/2002 - CSIRO researchers
unite against bushfires - Intelligent protective
suits for firefighters, and improved fire tanker safety
are among CSIRO projects highlighted by the recent fires.
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12/02/2002 - CSIRO research aids
PNG oil exploration - Exploration efforts by InterOil
have revealed what is believed to be a significant new
petroleum system in the Eastern Papuan Basin of Papua New
Guinea.
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12/02/2002 - Aussie technology
bound for Swedish forests - In a "coals to Newcastle"
success story, award-winning Australian wood testing
technology "SilviScan" is being exported to Sweden to
help streamline its forest industries.
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08/02/2002 - Healthy genes: a
consuming concern - Healthy genes are important for
protection against diseases such as cancer - and the
foods we eat play an important role in gene health,
according to CSIRO.
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01/02/2002 - Joint venture in sharp
focus - Innovative precision lenses, designed and
built in Australia for focusing beams of high-energy
ions, form the core of a new breed of high-energy ion
beam microscope recently commissioned in Melbourne.
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31/01/2002 - Hay quality test
a world first for CSIRO - A new infrared test that
measures the quality of different hays will help farmers
to determine how much feed an animal will eat.
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31/01/2002 - Rainforests
harvest the skies - Upland rainforests harvest vast
amounts of water from the clouds in addition to what
falls directly as rain, Australian scientist have
discovered.
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25/01/2002 - Honour for inspirer
of young minds - Ross Kingsland, Manager of CSIRO
Education has been appointed a Member of the Order of
Australia for his services to education through the
development of science education outreach services.
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24/01/2002 - Aussie super-net
puts people in 'touch' - Australia"s
super network has had its first successful demonstration,
proving it can carry an enormous amount of data between
two locations.
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23/01/2002 - Enjoy a true
Australia Day banquet - This Australia Day consider
having a truly Australian celebration by including some
native ingredients in your banquet.
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23/01/2002 - Using oceans to
tame bushfires - It may be possible to use
Australia"s oceans to reduce our bushfire dangers,
according to Dr Peter McIntosh, of CSIRO Marine Research.
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21/01/2002 - Preserving
Pine's Genetic Heritage - Scientists are
working against the clock to collect genetic information
from one of the last remaining natural stands of radiata
pine on the island of Guadalupe off the west coast of
Mexico.
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18/01/2002 - Visions from the
deep - A pioneering study of volcanic activity deep
beneath the Pacific Ocean is rewriting the principles of
mineral exploration and giving Australian mining
companies fresh hope of finding giant ore bodies.
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17/01/2002 - Here comes the
stud oyster - The stud oyster, sire of a long line of
large, luscious, seductively-proportioned and
sensuously-hued seafood to tempt the Aussie palate will
soon become a reality.
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16/01/2002 - Well quality:
secret of the good oil - With petroleum resources in
many areas of the world starting to dwindle, the quality
of the oil well has become a salient factor in successful
production.
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10/01/2002 - Stopping the viral
spread - Australia must not be complacent in its
efforts to keep out and control a group of insect-borne
human and animal viruses that are on the move, the
arboviruses.
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10/01/2002 - Lantana - the horror
story - Lantana - the perfumed and colourful garden
plant - has a leading role in an environmental horror
story with a plot unfolding quietly around us.
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08/01/2002 - Primodial air may
have been 'breathable' - The Earth
may have had an oxygen-rich atmosphere as long ago as
three billion years and possibly even earlier, three
leading geologists have claimed.
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08/01/2002 - Song and dance
about essential oils - Villagers in the remote
Western Province of Papua New Guinea are singing and
dancing about Waria Waria Oil - not only is it good for
you, it is a source of income.
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07/01/2002 - Firefighters at greater
risk: study - The traditional Fire Danger Meter used
by firefighters is seriously inaccurate under wildfire
conditions, says a recent study called Project Vesta.
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07/01/2002 - Stocktaking
time for Aussie insects - Australia has oodles of orb
weavers, hatfuls of horseflies, and buckets of beetles -
but we don"t know much about most of them.
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07/01/2002 - Foot-and-mouth 'on
the move in Asia' - Australian foot-and-mouth expert
Dr Laurie Gleeson has warned that the highly adaptable
pan-Asian strain of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD),
responsible for the UK outbreaks, is on the move in
South-East Asia.
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02/01/2002 - Trust's rust
busts bridal lust - New funding from the Natural
Heritage Trust will help landcare groups to continue the
fight against one of Australia"s worst weeds, bridal
creeper.