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Managing ecosystems around Australia

Conservation decisions

Our research is helping to answer urgent questions about where to invest limited resources for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation and how to get the best possible outcomes from that investment.

Lake Eyre threat management

We worked with expert ecologists and land managers to develop a set of cost-effective strategies for managing invasive animals in Australia’s iconic Lake Eyre Basin to conserve threatened flora and fauna.

Pilbara threat management

Cost-effective strategies to protect conservation-significant plants and animals in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Kimberley threat management

Expert ecologists and land managers in the Kimberley region have worked together to prioritise threat management options to protect native wildlife in the region.

Natural capital accounting

We're working with government, industry and communities to assess and account for natural capital such as water, soil, plants and animals.

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Environmental contaminant assessment and management

We look at what happens to contaminants in our waters and landscape and measure the effects on ecosystems.

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Aquatic contaminants - ecosystems under threat

Blue-green algae

Algal blooms are a major hazard to safe water supply as well as potentially dangerous to human, animal and fish health.

Groundwater contaminants

Our expert geochemical knowledge and contaminant chemistry capability enables us to assess the fate and risks posed by groundwater contaminants.

Environmental risk assessment

We provide specialist capability for assessing the risks posed by chemical contaminants and multiple stressors in aquatic systems.

Trace contaminant analysis and speciation

We have specialist expertise in the analysis of contaminants at trace and ultratrace concentrations in waters, sediments, soils and biota. Our laboratory is NATA-accredited.

Bioremediation

We're developing new biotechnical processes and approaches to remediate contaminated sites.

Contaminant bioavailability assessment

We provide specialist expertise for the assessment of contaminant bioavailability in waters, sediments and soils

Sediment quality assessment

We provide expert capability and advice that enable reliable and cost-effective sediment quality assessment for industry and government.

Emerging contaminants

We specialise in the risk assessment of emerging chemicals, assessing their fate and transformation and potential to cause toxicity to aquatic organisms.

Ecotoxicology

We provide specialist expertise and capability that enables fast and cost-effective assessment of bioavailability and toxicity of contaminants in ecosystems for industry and government.

Fire ecology

Great Western Woodlands

The study of eucalypt communities in the Great Western Woodlands is helping us to understand how they persist in a fire-prone landscape and assisting future fire management.

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Catchment research

Everyone in Australia lives in a catchment. Understanding how we best manage the land, water, vegetation and ecosystems in a catchment, alongside agriculture and mining, is important for the long-term sustainability of Australia's natural resources.

Catchment Management

Our Catchment Management research provides a seamless solutions-based approach spanning the catchment to the coast.

The Gully and Stream Bank Toolbox

The Australian Government’s Reef Trust, CSIRO and its partners have produced an industry guide for erosion control activities in the Great Barrier Reef catchments. This technical guide is known as the Gully and Stream Bank Toolbox.

Our work with Fisheries