Achievements by area of impact
Astronomy and Space | Climate Change | Energy | Environment | Farming and Food | Health and Wellbeing | Information and Communication technology | Manufacturing | Materials | Minerals and Mining | Transport and Infrastructure
Astronomy and Space
- Antennas for radio telescopes and satellite communications
- AUSSAT-B and other antenna research
- Australia Telescope Compact Array
- Parkes radio telescope and the Apollo 11 moon landing
- Parkes radio telescope construction
- Pulsar surveys and the discovery of the double pulsar
- Radar and the birth of radio astronomy in Australia at Collaroy Plateau
- Radio astronomy – observing explosions on the sun
- Radio astronomy amplifiers using millimetre wavelength imaging
- Radio astronomy at Dover Heights
Climate Change
Energy
- Ceramic Fuel Cells
- Coalscan – on-line analysis instruments for the coal industry
- Energy research and development in CSIRO
- Hydrodec – good oil on electricity
- Low emission vehicles
- North-West Shelf gas platforms
- Solar hot water systems
- Supercapacitors
- UltraBattery™
Environment
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy
- Barrier Reef Image Analysis System (BRIAN)
- BIOCLIM – the first species distribution modelling package
- Dung beetle program
- Ecologically sustainable fisheries and marine industries
- Effluent-irrigated plantations
- Entomopathogenic nematodes
- Hydrodec – good oil on electricity
- Low emission vehicles
- Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project
- Murray Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project – reports
- Myxomatosis to control rabbits
- Northern Australia Sustainable Yields Project
- Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study
- Prawn fishing industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Rainforest frogs study – discovery of chytridiomycosis
- Rainforests – Australia’s green cathedrals
- Salvinia biocontrol
- Scribbly gum moths
- Sediment quality assessment frameworks for water ecosystems
- Simulations of marine ecosystems dynamics
- Sirex wasp eradication
- Soil Map of Australia
- South-west Western Australia Sustainable Yields Project
- Tanning waste minimisation processes
- Tasmania Sustainable Yields Project
- Water allocation practices
- Waterfowl in Australia
- Weather and environmental prediction
- Wildlife ecology
Farming and Food
- Bitter-pit control
- Black disease vaccine for sheep
- C4 Photosynthesis
- Cattle for the tropics
- Cattle genome project
- Cell membranes and how living organisms resist the cold
- Chicken interferon gamma
- Cobalt deficiency and the cure for coast disease
- Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia eradication
- Cotton breeding and new cotton varieties
- Cycloprothrin – the first designer insecticide
- Dairy products for improved human health
- DHA canola
- Dung beetle program
- Ecologically sustainable fisheries and marine industries
- Enzyme technology and fellmongering
- FLOWERING LOCUS C and its control of the initiation of flowering in plants
- Gastro-intestinal parasite control of ruminants
- Genetic selection for multiple births in sheep
- Genetically modified cotton varieties
- GrazFeed
- Infectious bursal disease virus vaccine
- Mechanised cheese making
- Myxomatosis to control rabbits
- Objective measurement of wool
- Pastures for the north
- Potyvirus taxonomy
- Prawn fishing industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Prickly pear control
- RNAi
- Rust resistance in plants
- Salvinia biocontrol
- Sheep blowfly and other insect pests
- SilviScan™ rapid wood analysis
- Simulations of marine ecosystems dynamics
- Sirex wasp eradication
- SIROFLO®
- Skeleton weed biocontrol
- Transforming the Australian Wine Industry
- Tuberculosis diagnosis in animals and humans
- Wheat breeding in Australia’s high rainfall zone
Health and Wellbeing
- Aerogard
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy
- Bacterial drug resistance, gene cassettes and integrons
- Burns injury reductions through improved textile flammabality standards
- Dairy products for improved human health
- Elast-Eon™ biocompatible polyurethane
- Extended wear contact lenses
- Gene shears
- Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor discovery
- Hendra virus identification
- Influenza virus – how epidemics and pandemics emerge
- Insulin and epidermal growth factor receptor structures
- Iodine deficiency
- NovoSorb™ biodegradable polymer
- Relenza®
- Spectacle lens design
- Tuberculosis diagnosis in animals and humans
- X-ray phase-contrast imaging
Information and Communication technology
- Antennas for radio telescopes and satellite communications
- AUSSAT-B and other antenna research
- CSIRAC – Australia’s first computer
- DELTA taxonomic computer programs
- Panoptic™ search engine
- Parkes radio telescope and the Apollo 11 moon landing
- Radar
- Spatial Information Systems
- Wireless LANs
- Wireless network (gigabit)
Manufacturing
- Aerogard
- Air Cargo Scanner
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy
- Beta-carotene industry establishment
- Burns injury reductions through improved textile flammabality standards
- Ceramic Fuel Cells
- Cycloprothrin – the first designer insecticide
- Extended wear contact lenses
- Measuring the absolute ohm
- Nitroxide-mediated living radical polymerisation
- Optical fibre nephelometer
- Optically Variable Devices
- OPTIM™ fibre processing
- Oxygen sensor (SIRO2)
- Polymer banknotes
- RAFT polymerisation
- Relenza®
- Self-twist yarn
- SiroSet
- Sirospun
- Softly detergent
- Solar hot water systems
- Solospun™
- Superconductivity – its contribution to the absolute volt
- Synchro-Pulse Controlled Drop Transfer welding system
- Tanning waste minimisation processes
- UltraBattery™
- Vacuum pump (oil-free) for sophiscated instruments and industries
Materials
- Elast-Eon™ biocompatible polyurethane
- Engineered performance of timber
- Enzyme technology and fellmongering
- Extended wear contact lenses
- HySSIL™ building material
- Nitroxide-mediated living radical polymerisation
- NovoSorb™ biodegradable polymer
- Objective measurement of wool
- OPTIM™ fibre processing
- Polymer banknotes
- RAFT polymerisation
- SilviScan™ rapid wood analysis
- SiroSmelt
- Solospun™
- Wool fibre structure
- X-ray phase-contrast imaging
Minerals and Mining
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy
- Coalscan – on-line analysis instruments for the coal industry
- Hydraulic fracturing in mining
- LANDTEM
- Nickel deposits
- QEMSCAN® mineral analysis
- Regolith geochemistry for mineral exploration
- Remote sensing
- Seabed ore systems
- SiroSmelt
- Thickener technology for mineral processing
- Zirconia powders process