• International Polar Year, 2007–2008 (external link)
• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
• The Academy's support for NCAR's submission to the Inquiry into the adequacy of funding for Australia's Antarctic Program, 25 February 2004
• NCAR's submission to the Inquiry into the adequacy of funding for Australia's Antarctic Program, 4 December 2003

Astronomy (external link)
Chair: Professor Matthew Colless, FAA

• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
• New Horizons: A decadal plan for Australian astronomy (2006–2015) (external link)

Biomedical Sciences
Chair: Professor Rob Baxter, FAA

• Report on the National Forum on Education in Biomedical Sciences, Melbourne, 11 December 2007
• National Forum on Education in Biomedical Sciences, Melbourne, 11 December 2007 (external link)
• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report

Brain and Mind
Chair: Professor M Coltheart, FAA

Chemistry
Chair: Professor Chris Easton, FAA

• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report

Crystallography
Chair: Professor Jenny Martin

• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
  
  
  Replacement Research Reactor Task Force
  Chair: Professor John White, FAA
  
  • 2007 work plan
  • 2006 Annual report

Data in Science (external link)
Chair: Dr Ray Norris

Earth Sciences
Chair: Professor Andrew Gleadow, FAA

• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
• National strategic plan for the geosciences: Geoscience – unearthing our future (A submission to the Australian Research Council, October 2003)
• Opportunities for assessing the impact of the geosciences on the Australian economy via the system of national accounts (Background paper prepared for the development of a strategic plan for Australian geosciences, October 2003)
• Towards a strategic plan for earth sciences in Australia (A background issues paper, June 2002)

Earth System Science
Chair: Dr Roger Gifford

• Summary of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report
• 'The great global warming swindle' television program: Comments by the National Committee for Earth System Science
• 2007 work plan
• Australia–Japan Symposium on Earth Systems Science and on Nanomaterials, 20–21 November 2006
• 2006 Annual report
• Vegetation Dynamics and Climate Change Workshop, Shine Dome, 14–15 August 2007
• Workshop on the science of seasonal climate prediction by the National Committee for Earth System Science (NCESS) 2–3 August 2006
• Earth System Feedbacks: Vulnerability of the Carbon Cycle to Drought and Fire Part I: 5–8 June 2006 (International meeting) Part II 8–9 June 2006 (Australian focus) (external link)

• Pan evaporation: An example of the detection and attribution of trends in climate variables, 22–23 November 2004
  
  Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Task Force
  Chair: Professor Andy Pitman
  • 2007 work plan: please see Earth System Science work plan
  • 2006 Annual report: please see Earth System Science annual report

Geography (external link)
Chair: Professor Lesley Head

• Australians need geography
• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
• Submission to the Alpine Grazing Taskforce (Victoria), June 2004

History and Philosophy of Science
Chair: Dr Rachel Ankeny

• 2007 work plan
• National Museum of Australia Student Prize for Australian Environmental History
• National Museum of Australia Student Prize for the History of Australian Science
• 2006 Annual report

Mathematics (external link)
Chair: Professor J Hyam Rubinstein, FAA

• National Strategic Review of Mathematical Sciences Research in Australia (external link). Launch of the Review Report on 14 December 2006 by Professor Graham Farquhar, PhD, FAA, FRS (external link)
• Submission to the Productivity Commission review of public support for science and innovation in Australia, July 2006
• 2006 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
• Submission to the Victorian Government's Review of Education in Mathematics and the Sciences

Mechanical Sciences
Chair: Associate Professor Jim Denier

• International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Adelaide, 24–30 August 2008
• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report

Medicine
Chair: Professor Bob (Robert) Williamson, FAA

• Legislation Review of Australia’s Prohibition of Human Cloning Act 2002 and Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002: Submission to the Legislation Review Committee
• Second consultation draft of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research: Submission to the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council and the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee
• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
• Submission to the investment review of health and medical research

Nutrition
Chair: Professor Jennie Brand-Miller

• Iodine deficiency in Australia: A call for action, Shine Dome, 26 May 2008
• A food lifeboat: Food and nutrition considerations in the event of a pandemic
• Iodine deficiency
• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report

Physics
Chair: Professor Michelle Simmons FAA

• 2006 Annual report

Plant and Animal Sciences
Chair: Dr T J Higgins, FAA

• Statement on gene technology and GM plants
• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
• Management of grassland-livestock systems and combating land degradation in Northern China (The Shine Dome, 6-8 December 2005)

Quaternary Research
Chair: Professor John M A Chappell, FAA

• International Union of Quaternary Research Congress report, 2003

Radio Science (external link)
Chair: Professor Andrew Parfitt

• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report

Space Science
Chair: Professor Iver Cairns

• 7th Australian Space Science Conference. Presented by the National Committee for Space Science and the National Space Society of Australia (24–27 September 2007, Sydney)
• 2007 work plan
• 2006 Annual report
• Development of the first Australian Decadal Plan for Space Science
• Australian Space Research, 2004–2006
• The Space Weather Plan has been endorsed by the Activities Committee of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and by the National Committee for Space Science of the Australian Academy of Science.

  Muses-C Task Force
  Chair: Dr Trevor Ireland

  • 2007 work plan
  • Report of the Hayabusa Subcommittee
  • 2006 Annual report

Spectroscopy
Chair: Professor Keith Nugent, FAA

• 2006 Annual report