About CSIRO

CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

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• National Research Flagships

  Large-scale, long-term, multidisciplinary science to address Australia's major national challenges and opportunities.

  • About National Research Flagships
  • Climate Adaptation Flagship
  • Energy Transformed Flagship
  • Food Futures Flagship
  • Future Manufacturing Flagship
  • Light Metals Flagship
  • Minerals Down Under Flagship
  • Water for a Healthy Country Flagship
  • Wealth from Oceans Flagship
  • Preventative Health Flagship
  • Sustainable Agriculture Flagship

• Divisions

  CSIRO expertise is organised into 15 research areas

  • Astronomy and Space Science
  • Earth Science and Resource Engineering
  • Ecosystem Sciences
  • Energy Technology
  • Food & Nutritional Sciences
  • ICT Centre
  • Land and Water
  • Livestock Industries
  • Marine and Atmospheric Research
  • Materials Science & Engineering
  • Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics
  • Plant Industry
  • Process Science and Engineering

• National Facilities

  CSIRO manages national facilities and collections that are opened to researchers around Australia and overseas.

  • Australian biological collections
  • Australian National Algae Culture Collection
  • Australian National Fish Collection
  • Australian Tree Seed Centre
  • The Australian National Herbarium
  • Australia's Marine National Facility - exploring our oceans
  • Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex: Deep Space Network facility
  • CSIRO Pyrotron: A National Bushfire Research Facility