Researchers from one of NCI’s newest Affiliate Partners, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), are using the NCI supercomputer to discover the building blocks of our future electronic devices. In effect, they are using a high-energy electronic device —...

In 2017-18, an ANDS-Nectar-RDS (now the Australian Research Data Commons, ARDC) initiative called for applications from the e-research sector to enhance existing capability for “a world-leading data advantage”. As a result, NCI and its collaborators in Climate, Geoscience and Marine science...

Geoscience Australia is developing the world-leading Digital Earth Australia (DEA) platform to provide satellite data and images of Australia for research, industry and government use. Spatial information of this kind provides an in-depth understanding of changes in the environment. The data, once...

NCI’s expert scientific visualisation team is developing a virtual reality (VR) experience to let researchers dive right into their ocean datasets . The VR experience, developed alongside ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes researchers, allows them to see in amazing detail the flow of...

The Bureau of Meteorology is in the process of producing a reanalysis that allows us to look back at Australia’s weather for the past three decades. Built using Australia’s national weather forecast model (Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator, ACCESS), this dataset will give...

Materials scientists working at the cutting-edge of chemistry and physics need to drill down to the atomic level to properly understand the compounds they are dealing with. Materials scientists used to go straight to the lab to test out various plausible materials, now they start by modelling their...

As a nation that has a strong connection to the ocean, we actually don’t know all that much about its structure. In particular, there are big gaps in our understanding about the intertidal zone – the area between low and high tide on a beach. We have more than 15,000 square kilometres of intertidal...

Satellite data is central to so much of modern life, including much of our environmental monitoring programs. From satellites, you can get data about vegetation, water and so much more. In fact, the instruments on board three different satellites – the MODIS, GRACE, and SMOS missions – can give you...

Auto-immune diseases, such as lupus, are frequently genetically complex and can be caused by different mutations in many different genes, making it hard to identify the pathway that leads to these diseases. Correctly identifying the genetic cause of lupus in an individual is important when choosing...