Selected CSIRO media mentions for the week commencing 24 October 2022. If you encounter a paywall, request a text version by emailing the article title here.
Australia’s leading science agency, the CSIRO, has unveiled a “significant” new working model to promote commercial deals, in a move towards reliance on external funding that one top scientist claims will be “crippling” – Guardian Australia, 24 October 2022.
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The CSIRO is being accused of failing to disclose that fracking information sheets for Indigenous communities were written by one of its research divisions partially funded by gas companies – ABC online, 24 October 2022.
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If we take a broad view of higher education encompassing research alongside learning and teaching, we could consider how the medical research institutes, CSIRO and other specialised research facilities contribute to diversity in the system – Australian Financial Review, 27 October 2022.
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Over 2,500 kilometres from Perth lie the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, one of Australia’s most remote communities, part of the Indian Ocean Territories, which also encompass Christmas Island. It is here that scientists are completing world-first biodiversity and sea-floor mapping, aboard the CSIRO’s RV Investigator – ABC online, 30 October 2022.
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Living at a critical moment in Australian political and environmental history, Dr Alec Baille Costin – alpine ecologist, botanist, conservationist, farmer – was widely recognised as an international authority on the ecology of high mountains and high-latitude ecosystems and the founder of alpine ecology in Australia – Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October 2022.
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