CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) aims to advance Australian climate, marine, and earth systems science. Our research focuses on issues affecting Australia and the world, and we provide a range of scientific and consulting services that are underpinned by this research.

Our scientists are working with industry, regulators and the community in the search for solutions to our mounting air, land and water pollution problems.

A CSIRO study of the quality of air inside the typical Australian home has not revealed any nasty surprises.

Atmospheric scientists believe air contained in disused dive tanks can potentially extend what is already the longest record of greenhouse gases in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Program is contributing to the development of new environmental and bioindustries biotechnologies, and helping to build an understanding of the impact insects have on our environment and agriculture.

Tackling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is considered to be one of the most serious national and international challenges of our time. Australia has a sizable potential to sequester carbon and mitigate GHG in agricultural production and land use systems.

CSIRO's Urban systems program is undertaking research to understand the interconnected processes between human, natural and built systems necessary to develop more sustainable and ecologically sensitive urban areas that provide better environmental, economic and community outcomes.

CSIRO's atmospheric scientists have extensive capabilities in measuring, monitoring and analysing air pollution, suggesting solutions for controlling the airborne particles that cause it.

In this vodcast we visit CSIRO’s Aspendale Laboratory in Melbourne where Dr Paul Fraser from Marine and Atmospheric Research explains two new greenhouse gases showing up in an air collection used for monitoring changes in the atmosphere. (3:53)

A new report outlining changes to the global balance of carbon dioxide has found that despite the global financial crisis, carbon emissions from human activity continue to rise. (6:37)

Dr Manh Hoang leads a project to improve technology for extracting pure water from industrial, brackish and salt water resources.

After developing a manufacturing process for making wool blend air filters and seeing his work applied in commercial products, Dr Jürg Schütz is now investigating filters containing carbon nanotubes.

Details of the research areas, achievements, partnerships and capacity of the Healthy Water Ecosystems Theme, part of the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship. (4 pages)

This article from Farming Ahead discusses a recent CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship report on their water quality research in the Great Barrier Reef. (3 pages)

Atmospheric scientist, Dr Ross Mitchell, from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, explains how the September 2009 dust storms occurred and were projected in these forecast animations indicating where and how quickly the dust spread across the continent.

A factsheet detailing the 2007 data for the Global Carbon Project, a joint international project on the global carbon cycle.