Our facilities

Our analytical capability encompasses a range of specialist equipment including the only Supercritical Fluid Extractor in Australia.

Our rhizolysimeter is the largest root growth and soil water research facility in the Southern Hemisphere.

The phytotron is a large, open plan space with areas for working with plants and soils including dehydrators, plant/soil grinding rooms, cold rooms, dry storage area, vacuum digging equipment, and soil sterilisation and root washing facilities.

We have several operational glasshouses ranging from standard to physical containment level 2 (PC2) with various size bays suitable for the largest or smallest of projects.

Charles Sturt’s research and demonstration sites allow replicated field trials under controlled conditions.  These sites can be irrigated and monitored with in-field and remote sensing technology.

The Pre-clinical Centre is a specialised anatomy laboratory with associated break out or tutorial rooms and an impressive museum showcasing many animal skeletons.

Charles Sturt runs 2,000 maternal composite ewes for meat, a merino flock for wool, and 400 Angus breeding female cattle as part of the Angus Australia Sire Benchmarking Program.

Certified as a food registered premises with Wagga Wagga City Council, the meat laboratory encompasses Food Science, Meat and Fibre Science, Veterinary Quality Assurance, Food Technology and Product Development and Consumer Sensory Product Evaluation Testing.

A Sensory Laboratory with a fully equipped kitchen and sample preparation area suitable for wine and food evaluation, pass-through compartments for distribution of samples to participants and computer assisted data collection and sensory evaluation software.

Certified as a food registered premises with Wagga Wagga City Council, CSU’s Nutrition Laboratory is equipped with 12 cooking stations, stove tops, ovens, range-hoods, dishwashers and fridges

The orchard zone has 24 commercial olive varieties and a small selection of citrus trees including rootstock. The precinct also has irrigated greenhouses and shaded/unshaded areas that support research into larger plants or trees.

Our research Winery enables the production of red and white wines with state-of-the-art wine making equipment and temperature controlled fermentation for batches of 1L up to 1,000L. Facilities will also include production of low to no alcohol wines