From his formative years growing up in New Zealand, Keith Sainsbury had an intense interest in the sea. He combined […]
Rabbits were introduced to Australia in 1859 by a wealthy Victorian grazier keen on the sport of hunting. Hunters, however, […]
The generation of The Soil Map of Australia by James Arthur Prescott in 1944 was a huge project with significant […]
The Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study was a $12 million project that ran over 4 years starting in 1992. The […]
With the closure of the humpback whaling industry in Australia and New Zealand, alternative fishing ventures were considered in the […]
The concept of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) came to CSIRO scientist Alan Walsh in a flash of inspiration as he […]
In the late 1950s George Bornemissza, suggested that foreign dung beetles could usefully be imported into Australia and led the subsequent research program at the Division of Entomology in Canberra.
Starting in the 1950s, the research of Len Webb and colleagues, from the Rainforest Ecology Section of the CSIRO Division […]
Harry Frith’s life spanned a period in Australian society when perceptions about native animals and plants changed from one of […]
