Dr Alex Deev specialises in high temperature physical chemistry and electrochemistry of metallurgical systems and processes.

Mr Guy Barnett's research is helping urban planning and design professionals integrate ecological knowledge into everyday practice.

CSIRO partners with PetroChina to deliver world-class technology and research for the oil and gas industry.

CSIRO researchers are for the first time modelling the links between carbon emissions, energy consumption and human behaviour in urban environments.

Dr Deborah O'Connell is a systems analyst, currently focusing on biofuels, bioenergy, and sustainability research.

The Tasmanian ICT Centre is developing a world-class ICT research capacity and conducting innovative applied research in the areas of sensor networks and data management.

The UltraBattery is an advanced energy storage system with applications for hybrid electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The technology will be commercially available in the automotive and motive power sectors in 2009.

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).

CSIRO scientists have joined one of the world’s largest biotechnology consortia to help develop crops which produce oils to be used by the chemicals industry as sustainable alternatives to those derived from the world’s non-renewable stocks of crude oil.

CSIRO Exploration & Mining has signed an historic Relationship Agreement with the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT).

SiroSOM identifies relationships within large and diverse datasets typical in the geosciences and is also an effective predictive tool.

Dr Susan Blackburn is recognised internationally for her research and expertise in microalgal diversity, life cycles, ecophysiology, population dynamics, harmful algal blooms, culturing and bioapplications.

CSIRO has awarded grants to teams of students in nine universities across three states, to educate and assist communities in making environmentally sustainable personal and business decisions. 

AusBiotech will hold its 2008 conference, Building a Bioeconomy - climate, food, health, investment, fuel at the Melbourne Convention Centre 26 – 29 October 2008.

CSIRO’s Energy Transformed Flagship is conducting a broad research program in the biofuels area to investigate the potential for a sustainable and economically viable second generation biofuels industry.

CSIRO is bringing together scientists from Japan and Australia to discuss material flows and resource productivity, and share ideas on how the two countries can transition towards sustainable resource use.

Restricting Melbourne’s urban sprawl could have a big impact on reducing the city’s water use over the long term, says a CSIRO report launched today to coincide with National Water Week.

The CSIRO report Water-energy futures for Melbourne examines the challenges a large city faces in providing water for their growing populations. In this podcast, Steven Kenway from the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship discusses these challenges. (4:58)

This six-page brochure describes how the emerging bioeconomy is providing a platform to a sustainable future.

The bioeconomy will provide a platform to a sustainable future by providing security of food, water and energy supplies, reduced emissions, and the sustainable use of both biological and non-biological resources.