Six grants totalling more than $1 million have been awarded for applied Environmental Research projects through the NSW Government's Environmental Trust.
NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment's (DPIE), Environment, Energy and Science Group's Director of Grants Tina Bidese said the grants will help generate knowledge or information to facilitate local solutions to environmental issues.
"These grants are available to eligible research bodies such as universities to undertake priority research projects that help address environmental issues in NSW," Ms Bidese said.
"Environmental research is key to advancing techniques to solve general environmental issues in NSW.
"Part of the grants' objective is discovering new methods of operation for NSW industries and communities – methods that are less harmful to the environment."
Six recipients received a total $1,065,033 in the 2019 round of the program.
This year's grants fund research into wildlife disease surveillance, cultural burning for fire management, optimising biodiversity sampling by citizen scientists, extraction impacts on groundwater ecosystems, measuring ecohydrology across the Darling River system and genetic diversity for rainforest restoration.
Individual grants of up to $200,000 for up to three years in duration can be awarded to eligible organisations.
