The Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research was established in 1987 to promote water research, technology and information transfer to community, industry and government agencies. The strength of the Centre is that it assembles together, in one unit, scientists whose expertise, experience and research interests are related to the ecology, management and utilisation of water resources and natural environments in the Australasian tropics.
Current areas of research strength include those which are related to water quality, freshwater limnology, native and invasive freshwater fish species, freshwater turtles, palm and plant ecology, and a wide range of environmental issues surrounding catchment runoff to the Great Barrier Reef. The Centre also operates a research and commercial analytical laboratory, which performs analytical analyses of sediments and water.
