Board Update: 2022 – The Year in Review
The approaching end of 2022 offers us a chance to reflect on our achievements, our people and our business. As Chair of the APPF Board, I am incredibly proud of [...]
Recognising our infrastructure specialists
At the APPF, our Infrastructure Specialists are vital to our capabilities and our capacity to deliver cutting-edge phenomics for clients and partners. With that in mind, APPF Executive Director Dr [...]
phenoMobile arrives in South Australia
phenoMobile®, the mobile field phenotyping platform developed at the High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre (HRPPC), APPF’s CSIRO Canberra Node, has arrived in South Australia for use by University of Adelaide [...]
EnviroCHI’19 | Fremantle, Western Australia
EnviroCHI: Advancing Computer Human Interaction for Environmental Science and Education Our natural environment is under significant pressure: climate change, plastic pollution, and biodiversity loss, are among the major threats [...]
Optimal design for adaptive smoothing splines
A research team from CSIRO Data61 and the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) have derived a method for obtaining D-optimal designs for temporal data by proposing incorporating the curvature (or [...]
Research Data Alliance (RDA) 15th Plenary Meeting | Melbourne, Australia
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is delighted to announce that its 15th Plenary Meeting will take place from 18 - 20 March 2020 in Melbourne, Australia, at the Melbourne [...]
Wheat is one step closer to photosynthesis-based yield gains
Exciting research is carried out every day by users of the APPF’s technology and facilities. Here we share another inspirational story…. Professor John Evans of the Australian National University. [...]
The APPF appoints new Executive Director, Dr Susie Robinson
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) has appointed Dr Susie Robinson as Executive Director to drive future success. Dr Robinson brings a depth of experience across research, higher education and [...]
Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science 2019 (C3DIS 2019) | Canberra, Australia
We invite you to join us at the Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science 2019 (C3DIS 2019), to be held the week of 6 – 10 May [...]
On the path of most resistance – hunting combined stress tolerant crops
Arun Shanker and Robert Coe at the HRPPC, the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility's CSIRO hosted node An international collaboration tackling a shared challenge – the search for combined [...]
Optics in agriculture
Few industries define human civilisation as strongly as agriculture. And, as the world's population continues to grow, few technologies are as poised to improve the cultivation of food, fiber and [...]
Invitation to attend: “Food for the future demands radical agriculture: the C4 rice challenge”
Speaker: Professor Jane Langdale, University of Oxford Date: 26 April 2018, 4:30 pm followed by a networking event Location: Discovery Centre, North Road, CSIRO Black Mountain, Canberra ACT Contact: Gonzalo.Estavillo@csiro.au [...]
CSIRO Postgraduate Scholarships – Agriculture and Food
Are you passionate about a career in science? Want to access CSIRO's world-class facilities and staff? Apply for a CSIRO PhD Scholarship now! CSIRO invites applications for top-up Postgraduate Scholarships [...]
A presidential visit from Sri Lanka
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility's (APPF) node based at the CSIRO in Canberra was thrilled to host His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, and his delegation during their [...]
Our peeps in the PODD
Our PODD team in the Cropatron at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility's node at the CSIRO, Canberra Five students from Australian National University's (ANU) TechLauncher program are receiving [...]
Taking five with… Michael Schaefer
The three national nodes of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) are home to a highly talented team of plant science researchers and specialists. This passionate, cross-disciplinary team is skilled [...]
Accurate field canopy temperature measured in seconds
A method for cost-effective, reliable and scalable airborne thermography has been developed, resolving a number of challenges surrounding accurate high-throughput phenotyping of canopy temperature (CT) in the field, such as [...]
Hello, ni hau, hola, guten tag, marhaba, bonjour… knowledge sharing the key to plant science success
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is a national facility, available to all plant scientists, offering access to infrastructure that is not available at this scale or breadth in the [...]