Modern technologies to assess environmental risk of introduced weed biocontrol agents

Lead By Arvind Subbaraj . Duration: Project U25.05 runs from July 2025 to June 2026 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Crossing Bridges – Operationalising Risk Analysis Tools

Lead By Waka Paul. Duration: Project U24.05 runs from July 2025 to June 2027 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Could an alternative insect host be used in NZ to rear the most promising biocontrol agent for the brown marmorated stink bug?

Lead By Karina Santos. Duration: Project U25.01 runs from July 2025 to June 2027 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Tackling the threat of invasive Ceratocystis species to Aotearoa New Zealand

Lead By Virginia Marroni . Duration: Project UB24.26 runs from July 2024 to June 2027 Theme 1: Understanding Risk

Predicting the spillover of pests and pathogens into natural ecosystems

Lead By Darren Ward ([email protected]) . Duration: Project 1B22.6 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 years) Theme 1: Understanding Risk

AI technology to improve biosecurity at seaports in Aotearoa New Zealand

Lead By Mark McNeill. Duration: Project 2C24.17 runs from 2024 – 2026 (2 years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Automated sensing technologies to detect concealed invertebrates

Lead By Sarah Mansfield. Duration: Project P24.08 runs from 2024 (1-year scoping project), 2025 - 2028 (3 years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Accelerated ageing of plants to shorten the post-entry quarantine testing period

Lead By Virginia Marroni ([email protected]). Duration: Project 2C22.12 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Rapid screening model for optimising commodity treatments

Lead By Jessica Vereijssen ([email protected]). Duration: Project 2C22.9 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 2: Pathway Risk Management

Automating biosecurity sampling: using robotics and computer vision in diagnostics and surveillance

Lead By Aaron Harmer. Duration: Project R26.01 run from 2026 to 2027 Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Integrating novel multi-taxa lures with multisensory traps for surveillance of high-risk pests

Lead By Adriana Najar-Rodriguez. Duration: Project R25.04 runs from July 2025 to June 2028 Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Coordinated biosecurity surveillance for NZ’s primary industries

Lead By Rachael Horner. Duration: Project R25.03 runs from July 2025 to June 2027 Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Tackling the complacent, the resistant, and the disengaged: fostering stronger biosecurity engagement and social licence to manage biosecurity risks

Lead By Ivy Gan. Duration: Project R25.02 runs from July 2025 to June 2028 Theme 3: Readiness & Response

The impact of heatwaves on surveillance programmes for high-risk pests in New Zealand

Lead By Adriana Najar-Rodriguez . Duration: Project 3E24.07 runs from 2024 – 2027 (3 years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

eDNA for terrestrial biosecurity monitoring

Lead By Andrew Cridge ([email protected]) and Simon Bulman ([email protected]). Duration: Project 3E22.19 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Metatranscriptomics informing the relevance of pathogen disease biomarkers in plants

Lead By Sandra Visnovsky ([email protected]). Duration: Project D22.16 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Using images and deep learning for the identification of high-risk insect species

Lead By Darren Ward ([email protected]) . Duration: Project D22.15 runs from 2022 - 2027 (5 Years) Theme 3: Readiness & Response

Enhancing Biosecurity Through Indigenous Collaborations

Lead By Teresa Waiariki. Duration: Project M25.06 runs from 2025 - 2027 Theme 4 Te Ao Māori

Improving Māori/Indigenous engagement within B3 programs

Lead By Waipaina Awarau-Morris. Duration: Project 4X24.02 runs from 2024 – 2028 (4 years). Theme 4: Te Ao Māori