Mission

Through collaborative science and training, focusing on cutting-edge applications of genomics and environmental analysis, to improve the understanding, protection and resilience of Australia’s unique biodiversity and ecosystems in the face of accelerating environmental change.

Key aims

• To promote collaborative biodiversity science across ANU, UC, and CSIRO, which will develop and demonstrate novel approaches to biodiversity discovery, understanding, and analysis.
• To build capacity through training of graduate and postdoctoral scholars.
• To incorporate new knowledge on Australia’s biodiversity into Commonwealth and State-level conservation policy and management.

This is being achieved by

• Supporting projects co-proposed by ANU, UC and CSIRO research scientists, postdoctoral fellows and PhD students.
• Supporting and coordinating external visitors and CBA members to present training workshops and seminars.
• Supporting and hosting national conferences.
• Supporting co-supervised students.
• Collating and connecting biodiversity news and events across the ANU-UC-CSIRO biology community.
• Supporting the exchange of scientific and policy knowledge, perspectives and challenges amongst researchers, policymakers and managers.