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Science Agency
Highlights 2021
As Australia’s national science
agency and innovation catalyst,
CSIRO is solving the greatest
challenges through innovative
science and technology.
Our Drought Resilience mission is focussed on driving on-farm innovation, building regional
resilience and acting as a policy enabler to support drought preparedness.
From our Chief Executive
We deliver around
We engaged more than
$7.6 billion We supported a
of benefit to the 3,900 partners Indigenous
national
nation each year in industry and Science Program
government
5,300+ We supported
dedicated people
work across our 16 Future Science $265 million
Platforms was raised by a
58 sites globally
to advance research that second CSIRO
will underpin innovation Innovation Fund
to commercialise
our science
Where we work
CAIRNS
Australian Tropical Herbarium (ATH)
Darwin
TOWNSVILLE BRISBANE
Woodstock ATSIP Coopers Plains
Townsville Dutton Park
Fortitude Valley
Herston
Pullenvale, Queensland Centre
for Advanced Technologies
St Lucia
MURCHISON ARMIDALE
Australia Telescope Chiswick
National Facility (ATNF) Bribie Island
Toowoomba
Gatton NARRABRI
Forest Hill
GERALDTON Australia Telescope
Myall Vale National Facility (ATNF)
Australia Telescope
National Facility (ATNF) Mopra
PARKES
Newcastle
Australia Telescope
Boorowa SYDNEY National Facility (ATNF)
ADELAIDE
Kintore Avenue Eveleigh
PERTH SAHMRI
Irymple Lindfield
Floreat Waite Campus Lucas Heights
IOMRC Watermans Bay and Crawley Marsfield
Kensington North Ryde
WERRIBEE
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF)
Sneydes Road
Waterford
South Road
Australia Telescope
National Facility (ATNF) CANBERRA
GEELONG
Acton
Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness Black Mountain
Belmont Crace
Waurn Ponds Ginninderra
Tidbinbilla
France MELBOURNE Yarralumla
Montpellier Aspendale Canberra Deep Space
Chile Clayton HOBART Communication Complex
Santiago Docklands Sandy Bay
Australian National Herbarium
Parkville Marine National Facility
United States Australian National Insect Collection
Australian National Fish Collection
Silicon Valley Australian National Wildlife Collection
Australian National Algae
Australian Tree Seed Centre
Culture Collection
Australian National Soil Archive
CSIRO site CSIRO staff work at sites throughout Australia and overseas. Global precincts
Global precinct Our global precincts bring together partners to support research Canberra – National Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Precinct
and development of global standing and scale. Our national Brisbane – Ecosciences Precinct
National centre
centres are research centres of national standing and scale. Perth – National Resource Sciences Precinct
Collaboration Hub Clayton – Australian Manufacturing and Materials Precinct
Testing Services CSIRO hosts Australia’s national research facilities and scientific
collections that are available to Australian and international users. National centres
National facility Sydney – Digital Services
National collection Collaboration hubs are spaces dedicated to translating research Hobart – Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
outcomes to industry. Adelaide – Food, Health and Nutrition
Testing service centres provide testing and certification services Perth – Space Sciences
for industry. Townsville – Tropical Innovation
Newcastle – Energy Technology
As Australia’s national science
agency and innovation catalyst,
CSIRO is solving the greatest
challenges through innovative
science and technology.
CSIRO. Unlocking a better future
for everyone.
Contact us
1300 363 400
csiro.au/contact
csiro.au
Cover: Methane emissions from cattle (top picture) can be reduced by more than 80 per cent when they’re fed an
additive based on the seaweed Asparagopsis (bottom picture). Using IP from CSIRO, Meat & Livestock Australia
and James Cook University, we created the company FutureFeed to commercialise this solution from science.
Credit: Andrew McInnes austockphoto.com.au (top), CH4 Global (bottom).
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