Research
- Soil amelioration to increase water holding capacity and plant nutrient availability
- Examination of insect and disease lifecycles to develop control strategies
- Automated and in-field monitoring of pest and disease activity to map biosecurity threats
- Management of feral pests including rabbits and starlings and invasive weeds
- Crop and pasture agronomy
- Livestock health and wellbeing and development of biosecurity frameworks
- Monitoring and assessing land and water resources
- Catchment nutrient mapping to reduce eutrophication of water bodies
- Productive management strategies for salt land
- Production of functional foods and nutraceuticals from low-grade fruit and vegetables (value-adding)
- Development of future food systems based on whole crop utilisation, traceability and provenance of food and wine and assessment of new fruit and vegetable crops
- Coordination of emissions reduction strategies and sequestration opportunities for WA agricultural industries
- Research, monitoring and assessment of major fish stocks and marine ecosystems.
Facilities
- Capacity for crop, livestock, invasive species, horticulture, and fisheries R&D
- Animal health laboratories (PC2 level) – bacteriology, parasitology, fish research, post-mortem lab, biochemistry lab, specimen lab, cool room, media preparation lab
- General laboratories – entomology, herbarium, horticulture, microbiology, analytical labs, vaccine lab, water analysis lab
- Dirty labs – seed cleaning, pasture lab, soils lab, cool rooms
- Agronomic trial processing facilities, glasshouses and screenhouses
- Large electric drying ovens
- Machinery sheds, workshop, seed and fertiliser store, and chemical stores
- Conference rooms with seating for up to 100 people.
Co-locators
Forest Products Commission (FPC), South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC), and RSPCA.
Contact
For more information on the facilities and R&D opportunities available at DPIRD Albany please contact:
P: +61 1300 374 731 (1300 DPIRD1) or +61 (0)8 9892 8444
E: enquiries@dpird.wa.gov.au