THE Australian Computer Society (ACS) WA branch recently announced the launch of Australia’s first two ACS Centres of Excellence, promising to open the West Australian ICT community to national and overseas interest.

 

THE Australian Computer Society (ACS) WA branch has this week announced the launch of Australia’s first two ACS Centres of Excellence, promising to open the West Australian ICT community to national and overseas interest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Centre will develop the use of hyperspectral sensing as a tool to generate low-cost, highly-specific 3D maps of mineral systems for the next generation of WA mineral exploration.

The Centre will support research in water resource management and nutrient management within agriculture and associated ecosystems. The proposed research areas target the enhancement and maintenance of the natural environment whilst improving the quality of life and economic development of the State.

The Centre will investigate the potential to utilise the low-heat geothermal energy present in the Perth sedimentary basin for air-conditioning, desalination, and clean power generation.

The Centre will conduct strategic planning, research and community awareness programs to understand, manage, prevent and reverse WA woodland and forest decline.

The Centre will combine State government and university resources in order to build a critical mass of radio astronomy expertise in WA. The Centre will capitalise on opportunities presented by new WA-based radio astronomy pathfinder instruments and will help attract the $US2 billion Square Kilometre Array observatory to WA.

 

The principle aim of CREST is to be a leader in the field of sustainable transport energy, coordinating research and development to assist WA in its transition to a sustainable transport system.  CREST will promote the adoption of sustainable transport systems through its involvement in a range of activities including research, testing, analysis and education.

COFS seeks to conduct research into mechanics of seabed sediments and of offshore foundation systems and use its expertise to service the offshore petroleum industry at state, national and international level.

 

The principle aim of the Centre is to discover and characterise molecular components and control mechanisms that drive energy metabolism in plants. This will provide resources and knowledge to improve crop plant performance in WA, particularly in marginal environments and in response to climate change. The research will provide the means to enhance the yield and nutritional value of a range of agricultural products.

 

CEB aims to develop an understanding of the evolutionary processes that impact male and female reproductive biology. COE funding supports research of the ARC Federation Fellow Professor Leigh Simmons.

The objective of the Centre is to use seismic methods for gold exploration in the Goldfields and provides research opportunities in innovative seismic and other techniques for oil and mineral exploration.

 

NCC-WA aims to be a world-class regional and national technology-enabling provider, supplying best practice in targeted cutting-edge research and industry-relevant nanoscale characterisation that maximises the benefits to the general community from industry and institutional research and development in WA. The primary objective of the Centre is to continue major equipment acquisition to ensure that the State’s researchers have access to state-of-the-art technology.

 

The Institute seeks to assemble a unique multi-disciplinary team integrated with clinical care and routine diagnostic medicine and the necessary physical resources to apply the full power of contemporary scientific knowledge and methods with an emphasis on genetics, mathematics, computing, and clinical and laboratory research. The Institute has five programs: HIV-host interaction; hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; drug hypersensitivity reactions; antiretroviral drug toxicity; and biostatistical methods.

DLA aims to enable internationally significant science and innovation in the health and human services sector through the creation and sustainable development of unique infrastructure, based on data linkage and population health databases.

The Centre’s mission is to lower the burden of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in the community and to enhance the quality of life in the individuals suffering from, or affected by the disease. The Centre has focussed research into diagnostics and biomarkers; lifestyle interventions; clinical trials and therapeutics; and population-based health outcomes evaluation.

The Centre’s mission is to improve the health of children, adolescents and their families by undertaking research in the prevention and treatment of disease. CCHR undertakes research in eight areas related to child, adolescent and maternal health: Aboriginal child health; asthma, allergies and respiratory diseases; birth defects; cancer and leukaemia; developmental disorders; infectious diseases; mental health; and perinatal epidemiology.

CET’s mission is to develop and transfer practical technologies for exploration targeting that will enable the minerals exploration industry to achieve an emphatic improvement in the risk:reward ratio for discovering viable mineral deposits (especially in WA).

 

The Centre is an expansion and continuation of the original JDL centre and also seeks to facilitate and promote world-class research and development with an industry focus in WA using advanced methods and techniques in mass spectrometry which will be of benefit to the minerals and petroleum industry and the environmental and health sectors.

eMed seeks to build affordable, next-generation, medical diagnostic technology including home care solutions, education and training programs, and export clinical and disease management services from Australia to the rest of the world.