Introduction

The Flinders Institute for Research in Science and Technology brings together the research activities of individuals and teams in a range of disciplines including:

• molecular biology and biotechnology
• waste treatment, water quality and environmental health
• water, soils and environment
• ecological science
• oceanography and meteorology
• marine biology and aquaculture
• molecular analysis, design and synthesis.
• electron, ion and laser driven processes
• embedded systems and microelectronics
• data, information and knowledge management
• biomedical applications
• applicable mathematics, modelling and computation

The work of this Institute is supported by a number of major research facilities, and concentrated in a number of specialist centres. Recent successes in bringing the Institute's research to commercial and community application include:

• the formation of Flinders Bioremediation, a company which specialises in the application of biotechnology to solve environmental problems,
• the development to commercial applicability of the invention of a patented paper for the preservation of forensic DNA samples,
• the establishment — with the City of Port Lincoln, SA — of a project under the Federal Government’s Clean Seas program, to devise methods of waste remediation and water re-usage, and
• the opening of a new interpretive centre at the World Heritage listed Naracoorte Caves, using scientific content and information technology applications developed at Flinders.

Institute research activity framework