Aquatic Ecology

Integrated weed management (IWM) utilises a combination of complimentary practices such as grazing, herbicide application, land fallowing and biological control to help manage weeds.

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

A miniature CSIRO submarine being used to study the health of Tasmania’s waterways has officially been named ‘Searise’.

The Hobart-based node of CSIRO’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Centre was officially opened this week.

The second Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Conference will be held on 22-24 September 2008 at the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

A symposium in honour of Dr Albert Rovira's 80th birthday and 50 years of his rhizosphere research and leadership.

Rising ocean temperatures pose a threat to fisheries and marine biodiversity. CSIRO scientists are studying how climate change will affect Australia’s oceans, and developing adaptation options to respond to these challenges.

CSIRO's Healthy Terrestrial Ecosystems theme brings together multi-disciplinary teams to develop new technologies and approaches to promote ecosystem function and prediction to inform biodiversity management, planning and incentives.

CSIRO is developing tools to help catchment managers ensure the on-going environmental integrity of rivers, estuaries and floodplains.

CSIRO’s Water Resources Protection team can conduct research into water quality, contaminant dynamics, microbial processes and industrial biotechnology to assist in the management and protection of urban and industrial water resources.

Dr Peter Caccetta talks about his work helping to change the way remote sensing data is used in Australia in this video. (3:00)

Life Scientist of the Year, Dr Beth Fulton, talks about marine modelling. (2:57)

When oceanographer Dr George Cresswell joined CSIRO as a physicist in the late 1960s, astronauts were sending back some of the first images of earth – and its oceans.

Dr Cedric Griffiths is a geologist with a fascination for using computers to predict what lies underground in the Earth’s strata.

This article from Farming Ahead contains four stories on biocontrol for the aquatic weed, cabomba, healthy barley foods, Helicoverpa genome sequencing and better wheat varieties. (1 page)

A study of the social arrangements and cultural practices relating to water and the Indigenous knowledge of groundwater and surface water sources held by cultural groups in the vicinity of the regional centre of Katherine. (74 pages)

Sensing technologies for hydrocarbons and their potential use as exploration devices is being delivered through the CSIRO Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship (2 pages).