Benefits to Australia

  Scientific innovation relevant to National Priority Areas

    Research Priority 1: An Environmentally Sustainable Australia

  • Goal 1: Water – a Critical Resource

  • Goal 2: Water – Transforming existing industures and Goal 6: Developing Deep Earth Resources and

    Research Priority 3: Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries

  • Goal 1: Breakthrough Sciences
  • Goal 2: Frontier Technologies

  Enhanced international links

  Excellence in training of our future generation of geoscientists

  Enhanced industry links nationally and internationally

  Improved exploration tools and strategies for Australian mineral exploration companies both on- and off-shore

  Technological innovation (scientific advances, intellectual property, commercialisation, value-added consulting services)

Annual Report 2009