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CSIRO was the first Australian organisation to start using the Internet [27] and was able to register the second-level domain csiro.au (as opposed to csiro.org.au or csiro.com.au). Guidelines were introduced in 1996 to regulate the use of the .au domain.
Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness. The Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP), formerly known as the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), in Geelong, Victoria, Australia is a high security laboratory, run by the CSIRO for exotic animal disease diagnosis and research.
The data of these tests, the CSIRO website notes, is recorded by a myriad of sensors and high speed, as well as thermal cameras. By testing different types of fuel and wind speeds, bushfire researchers are able to create predictive models of the spread of fires based on the local topography of the region at risk, thus enabling firefighters to ...
Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.It hosts Murriyang, the 64 m CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope also known as "The Dish", [1] along with two smaller radio telescopes.
Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory was established by CSIRO, Australia's national science centre in 2009.It lies in a designated radio quiet zone located near Boolardy Station in the Murchison Shire of Western Australia, about 800 kilometres (500 mi) north of Perth on the traditional lands of the Wajarri people.
Australian Federal Government funding of NICTA was due to expire in June 2016 and there was a concerted effort to secure a merger with CSIRO. This merger was to be with the CSIRO Digital Productivity Flagship and there was the potential for up to 200 redundancies [8] due to funding cuts to both organisations.
Through the 1980s and 1990s the marine Divisions of CSIRO had the use of both the RV Southern Surveyor, equipped for biological as well as oceanographic research, and the purpose-built RV Franklin for physical and chemical oceanographic research, both of which served at various times as the Marine National Facility for the nation (meaning that other agencies could also carry out research using ...
CSIRO currently operates four observatories as part of the ATNF. Three are in New South Wales near the towns of Parkes , Coonabarabran and Narrabri .The fourth telescope, the next generation Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia .