Facilities

National Research Facilities

Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) – a national centre for excellence in disease diagnosis, research and policy advice in animal health

Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) – sits within CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS), and operates and develops the Australia Telescope as a national research facility

Australia’s Marine National Facility – exploring our oceans – See also Southern Surveyor – research vessel

National Measurement Laboratory (NML)

National Solar Energy Centre

Pyrotron – a National Bushfire Research Facility

Other Facilities

Australian Centre for Precision Optics

Australian e-Health Research Centre – Clinical Data Acquisition, Integration, Visualisation and Analysis

Australian Tree Seed Centre

AAHL – Quarantine testing of companion animals, Aquatic animal testing, Innocuity testing

Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (Tidbinbilla, ACT) – one of three Deep Space Network stations around the world providing continuous, two-way radio contact with spacecraft exploring our solar system and beyond

Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (TAS)

Centre for Australian Forensic Soil Science

CSIRO Collaborative Crystallisation Centre

Food Manufacturing Pilot Plant

High Performance Computing and Communications Centre – a collaboration between the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO

High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre (Canberra, ACT) – See also ‘1st International Plant Phenomics Symposium’, The CSIRO Times, 17, 21-24 April, 2009 [PDF 1.8 MB]

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre – The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is a world-class supercomputing centre in Kensington, Western Australia.

Oceanographic Calibration Facility – high precision calibration of conductivity, temperature and pressure sensors

Recombinant Protein Production and Purification Facility

Rock mechanics Facility

SynCat – 24/7 synfuel and catalysis research facility (Profile – Facility)