The Australian Tropical Sciences and Innovation Precinct.

Townsville, Qld (Australian Tropical Sciences and Innovation Precinct)

CSIRO and James Cook University (JCU) are working together in a world class tropical research hub located at JCU's Townsville campus.

• 29 October 2010

• Background
• TLJV Vision
• Research

Background

In 2005, CSIRO and JCU formed a strategic alliance known as the JCU/CSIRO Tropical Landscapes Joint Venture (TLJV), to facilitate collaborative research between these two world-class institutes.

As part of the TLJV initiative, staff from CSIRO and staff from two faculties of JCU are now located in the new purpose-built facility on JCU's Townsville campus. 

The co-location of CSIRO and JCU staff in Townsville creates an opportunity to position Australia as a pre-eminent provider of research to industries and communities in the world's tropics.

Tropical Landscapes Joint Venture

The vision is to:

• position Australia as a pre-eminent provider of knowledge in the world’s tropical regions
• act as a centre of excellence in tropical science
• develop the northern Australian economy with knowledge, ideas and innovations
• provide information for sustainably managing Australia’s northern terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
  

Research

Research will focus on finding scientific solutions for sustainable natural resource use in the tropics in the following areas:

• sustainable water management
• sustainable livestock systems for northern Australia
• intensive production systems in tropical landscapes
• understanding the genetics and breeding of sugarcane and development of new varieties
• marine and coastal processes and production systems
• integrated approaches to managing change in tropical regional communities.

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Read more about CSIRO research into Tropical and arid systems.