SARCCM has excellent research facilities including oceanographic equipment such as current meters, ADCPs (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler), ADVs (Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter), Nephelometers, thermistor chains, tide and wave gauges, CTDs (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth sensor), water and sediment samplers, a new water quality laboratory equipped with an ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry), and high performance workstations, with access to the supercomputers in the INTERSECT (Orange) and NCI (National Computational Infrastructure) National Facility (Raijin/Xe) at the Australian National University.

SARCCM is within UNSW’s areas of research strength: Water, Climate, Environment and Sustainability.