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New course set for ocean observations
CSIRO has announced a partnership with San Francisco-based ocean technology start-up, Saildrone, to radically improve measurement and monitoring in Australian waters and the Southern Ocean. The...
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A ferret at AAHL
A ferret in the animal facilities within the high biocontainment area of CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL)
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Dickson poppy fields at CSIR Dickson Experimental Station in the Australian...
From Shaping Science and Industry - C.B. Schedvin 1987. "By 1943 Australia was more or less self-sufficient in morphine. The ancient method of obtaining opium from the poppy heads could not be used...
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Cross section of wool fibre
Transmission Electron Microscope image of the cross section of a wool fibre showing the ortho-cortical and meso-cortical cells that make up the cortex.
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Quick Electronic Catalogue Software
CSIRO researchers have developed a system for rapidly generating text for electronic catalogues. It is unique in that it produces text which is based on specific information about the intended reader -...
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A Mathematical and Statistical Computer Package
CSIRO scientists using a specialised mathematical and statistical computer package.
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A Goanna
There will always be winners and losers with any fire. For predatory and scavenging reptiles such as goannas, fires provide a good source of carrion.
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Testing Fire Intensity in Kakadu
CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology scientist, Dr Dick Willliams, measuring fire intensity at Kapalga Research Station in Kakadu National Park. Fires in the Top End tend to be of relatively low intensity. The...
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Research Aircraft Measuring Nosecone
A research aircraft with a nosecone fitted with instruments for making meteorological measurements.
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Fruit Bats, Virus Hosts
Fruit bats (flying foxes) carry antibodies to a range of emerging diseases such as Hendra virus, Menangle virus and Nipah virus. They are believed to be the natural host of the viruses.
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Chytrid Fungus Infected Great Barred Frog
A team of Australian scientists is working to learn more about the frog killer, the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). This Great Barred Frog is infected with the chytrid fungus. Photo:...
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Biochemistry building (Building 1) and glasshouse
The north (or rear) entrance to the Biochemistry Building, CSIRO Division of Nutritional Biochemistry, Kintore Avenue, Adelaide, South Australia. View from car park behind the building, including...
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CSIRO Parkes Telescope - This photo, taken in 1969, shows the telescope as it...
CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope was officially opened on the 31 October 1961 by the Governor-General, Viscount De L'Isle forty years on, it is still one of the most advanced telescopes of its kind. A...
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Aerial view of rice growing areas in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, near...
This view shows contrasting types of planting; in the foreground using the older contour bank method, and in the background the more recent rectangular laser levelled rice paddocks. 1991.
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Agricultural seeding equipment in operation at Long Plains, 50 km north of...
Agricultural seeding equipment in operation at Long Plains, 50 km north of Adelaide in South Australia. 1992.
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Masto bioassay
Bio-assay in jar. Scientists use bio-assays such as this to determine the amount of activity that termites and other wood borers do under experimental conditions.
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CSIRO PhD student Elena Virtue working with viruses at the Australian Animal...
Plastic flasks are used to grow viruses. For safety purposes, no glassware is used in the BSL4 laboratory. Determining how the virus grows and interacts with cells gives scientists more information...
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Bubbles in Ice
A sliver of Antarctic ice revealing the myriad enclosed tiny bubbles of air. Air bubbles trapped in ice hundreds or even thousands of years ago are providing vital information about past levels of...
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