KCC is on the NSW south coast between Kioloa and Bawley Point villages. It's easy to get here from Canberra, Sydney and Wollongong. KCC has accommodation and research facilities to support short or long-term research, educational field trips, field training courses or other educational activities. Facilities can also be booked for annual retreats, workshops, seminars and meetings.

The site, which includes a laboratory, is also used for training students in fieldwork techniques.

For more information visit the Kioloa Coastal Campus' website.

NARU campus is about a 15km drive from Darwin city and about 8km drive from Darwin International Airport.

Fiddler Crab research

The Fiddler Crab researchers from the Backwell lab at the ANU Research Scool of Biology base their field studies from the University’s North Australia Research Unit in Darwin for four months of the year (September - Christmas).

Researchers work and help each other designing experiments and in the field, and there’s time for leisure activities too.

Each season sees a different set of researchers, and some make friends for life with the people they study with in Darwin.

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As part of the Ocean US oceanographic project, two Iridium L-Band transmitters have been provided to RSES for installation at remote GPS sites in Antarctica. These satellite modems will be installed at Dalton Corner and Komsomolskiy Peak, two sites that are too far south for the Inmarsat data transmission system to work reliably. The use of the Iridium satellite modems will permit data to be transmitted from these two remote sites on a daily basis back to RSES.

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Biology

The National Arboretum Phenomic Environmental Sensor Array (PESA) at the National Arboretum in Canberra, ACT is a 'NextGen' monitoring  system enabling researchers to understand how extreme weather and climate variability affect tree growth in experimental plots as they mature from individual trees to mature forest ecosystems.

It will allow us to predict drought effects on growth and development for different eucalyptus species and genotypes which has important implications for regenerating forest ecosystems under climate change nationally and globally.

Initial placement of the PESA will be at the ANU Research Forest of the National Arboretum of Canberra, but the  Array design has flexible components to allow sub-sets to be relocated to other sites for comparative analyses and integration over wider geographic scales.

The National Arboretum Phenomic Sensory Array project is conducted by the Borevitz Lab at the Reseach School of Biology. For more information visit the Borevitz Lab website.

Environmental science

The National Arboretum Canberra research site will also help us understand:

• How will eucalypt forests respond to climate change
• How much carbon do eucalypt forests sequester out of the atmosphere
• Whether or not eucalypt trees change their shape or the properties of their wood under different climate extremes

For more information visit the Climate Change and Forests project page on the Fenner School of Environment and Society website.

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Research at this 'outdoor laboratory' is breaking new ground by investigating management manipulations that improve woodlands for biodiversity, such as controlling exotic predators, adding dead wood for habitat and the use of controlled burning.

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Research at this rural field station focuses on soil regeneration, landscape rehydration and cultivation of biodiversity, with the goal of making holistic landscape management a mainstream practice for sustainable and profitable agricultural business.

The HIAF accelerators provide important infrastructure for the Australian research community, with applications that range from creating and characterising new and innovative materials, resource/energy exploration and waste management, research in environmental, biological and life sciences and investigating climate change, to archaeological and heritage studies, and critical investigations into nuclear science, including fundamental quantum science through systematic inquiry into nuclear behaviour and properties following collisions between atomic nuclei. Watch this video to see inside the Facility.

For more information visit the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility website..

It is sited under the dark skies of Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, in central NSW. SkyMapper's mission is to robotically create the first comprehensive digital survey of the entire southern sky.

The result will be a massively detailed record of more than a billion stars and galaxies, to a sensitivity one million times fainter than the human eye can see.

The survey's data set will be made freely available to the scientific and general community via the internet.

The Linnaeus building

The Linnaeus building, completed in 2011, houses state-of-the art laboratory facilities with associated office space.

The building was purpose built to support the full range of molecular and cell biology carried out in the School and accommodates the majority of staff and students in the School's Division of Biomedical Science and Biochemistry and Division of Plant Sciences.

The Linnaeus building houses a wide range of general and specialist research equipment, a large area dedicated to plant growth facilities, and cell culture laboratories that support work in parasitology, virology, immunology and cancer biology.

The Science Teaching and Learning building

The Sciences Teaching Building includes eight teaching wet laboratories for undergraduate and course work students across the Bioscience and Chemistry disciplines, as well 150-seat and 50-seat flexible learning spaces, several outdoor teaching areas and smaller group rooms.

These teaching laboratories have been designed to allow students to develop the skill sets required to conduct higher level research and or work within research and development laboratories of various important industries including pharmacology and the minerals sector.

Other teaching and learning spaces include analytical and instrument laboratories and associated preparation areas.

The Chemical Sciences building

The building is in the heart of the new ANU Science Precinct, bringing together researchers and students from multiple disciplines and driving collaboration between different fields of science.

Construction of the building started in 2009, and culminated in a Public Architecture Award from the ACT Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.

NCI is supported by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, with operational funding provided through a formal collaboration incorporating CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology, The Australian National University, Geoscience Australia the Australian Research Council, and a number of research intensive universities and medical research institutes.

Visit the National Computational Infrastructure Facility website for further information.

It includes the only space simulation facility in the southern hemisphere, the Wombat XL, which mimics the airlessness of space, as well as the dramatic temperature changes experienced by satellites moving in and out of the Earth’s shadow.

For more information visit the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre page on the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics website.

The CANU library is curated by Compounds Australia and is a collection of structurally unique small molecules and peptides synthesised by researchers at the RSC. For more information on the library, including sample submission protocols, visit the Compounds ANU website.

For details on compound screening, please visit The ANU Centre for Therapeutic Discovery.

What we provide

• The CPAS Podcast Studio is set up as a four mic desk (expandable under certain circumstances to six mics). We’ve got mics, memory cards, a multi-track recorder and the desk and the room. All you’ll need to bring is yourselves (and a computer to edit and upload). The room and equipment will continue to evolve into the future - if there’s stuff that would really help your podcast series, let us know and we’ll think about it! The equipment has to stay in the room, it can’t be taken out (sorry).
• The room will start as a business hours room, but over time we are happy to discuss out of hours access.
• We’re also very keen to provide advice and guidance, on story-telling, brand, recording techniques and sound engineering - or anything else you’re wondering about.

More information

The MakerSpace community and tools are accessible to ALL current ANU staff & students. We believe that inter-disciplinary environments breed creativity, and that everyone has something they can teach everyone else. 

Projects undertaken in the ANU MakerSpace can be linked to education, research & personal hobbies. We are a commons for curiosity - a truly research-led environment, furnished with resources for people to experiment, investigate, prototype, and solve problems. Our aim is to empower users with confidence to be life-long self-learners and makers.

This laboratory is designed for studies of fluid flow processes relevant to both solid earth geological processes and ocean-atmosphere dynamics.

It includes a well-controlled temperature isolation room (stable at temperatures between 5 and 30°C), which is used in studies of solidification, melting, convection or flows having temperature-dependent viscosity.

Fully qualified staff provide services such as environmental monitoring, watering, pest and disease control as well as horticultural advice.

For more information visit the Controlled Environment Facility page on the Research School of Biology website.

The Australian Phenomics Facility specialises in the development, characterising and archiving of mouse models of human disease. It has an experienced genomics and bioinformatics capability focussed on the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms and the phenotyping capability to make the biological associations with probable human disease traits. its goals are to firstly derive the underlying genetic mechanisms, and then look to extend this across the population and better understand cohort differences and responses.

The facility was established in 2005 and receives funding from the Australian Government’s NCRIS, Super Science and CRIS programmes through the Australian Phenomics Network and contributions from the Australian National University.

For more information visit the APF website.

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The NMR Centre at ANU is one of the most advanced in Australia, boasting equipment worth over eight million dollars and catering for over 100 staff and students in six Schools and Faculties. ANU was a joint recipient of an Australian Research Council grant for the purchase of an 800 MHz NMR spectrometer and a cryoprobe. The Centre now has one of the most sophisticated NMR spectrometers in Australia. This complements six other spectrometers operating at field strengths between 4.7 and 14.1 Tesla.

For more information visit the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance page on the Research School of Chemistry website.

The JMSF is focusing on three main application areas using a variety of mass spectrometry instruments. These application areas include:

• Metabolomics
• Proteomics
• Synthetic (single) molecule characterisation

For more information visit the Joint Mass Spectrometry Facility page on the research School of Chemistry website.

SHRIMP is typically used for determining ion ratios in geologic materials. Probe pits are typically 10-30 µm in diameter and a few micrometers deep. As such SHRIMP allows virtually nondestructive in-situ isotopic analysis of geologic materials. Such materials include polished grain mounts and thin sections. Samples are generally characterized with visual and electron imaging prior to analysis.

Applications include U-Pb geochronology, trace element geochemistry, stable isotope analysis, and measurement of cosmochemical effects in extraterrestrial samples. Three SHRIMP instruments are currently in use (SHRIMP SI, II, RG).

For more information visit the Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) website.

This makes ANU, in cooperation with Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL), the major Australian partner for this ground-breaking facility which will lead to unprecedented insight into our universe.

For more information visit the Giant Magellan Telescope page on the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics website.

The Centre for Advanced Microscopy (CAM) provides state-of-the art microscopy and microanalysis equipment to researchers, students and industry partners.

Our specialist staff will guide users towards appropriate sample preparation techniques and instrument allocation and support their research across all material and life science disciplines.

Together, CAM and the CTLab form the Advanced Imaging Precinct and the ANU node of the Microscopy Australia (formerly the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF)).