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Environomics

The health of Australia’s ecosystems and biodiversity is essential to our nation’s well-being and economy. The new discipline of Environomics will transform our ability to understand the origins, diversity, function and dynamics of complex biological systems, using a whole-of-environment approach. It is a frontier science, which brings together advances in DNA sequencing, evolutionary biology, big-data and environmental modelling.

In 2021, CSIRO invested in a national Environomics project as part of the CSIRO Future Sciences Platform. This enterprise is facilitating and significantly enhancing a coordinated effort in Australia to boost our understanding and productivity across fields such as biodiversity, biosecurity, bio-inspiration, agriculture and fisheries, environmental monitoring and ecosystem remediation. Methodologies, analysis frameworks and visualisation techniques are being developed and organised to provide the Australian innovation system with a new genomics-based science platform to meet the 21st Century’s environmental and bio-based industry challenges.

The Environomics Future Sciences Platform is developing expertise in genomic analyses of non-model species, advancing environmental DNA analysis methods, and creating visualisation tools for synthesising large volumes of genomic, specimen, and environmental data.