Theme Scope:
- New Surveillance Methods: Increased ability to detect species earlier by development of timely, cost-effective surveillance methods and improvements of surveillance sensitivity
- Defining Surveillance Efficacy: Increased understanding of and confidence in the effectiveness of surveillance programmes to enable better targeting and use of resources
- New Eradication Tools: Develop tools that maximise the likelihood of eradication, minimise adverse environmental and cultural impacts, and lie within public thresholds of acceptance for new technologies
- New Response Decision Tools: Develop tools and strategies to enable rapid and robust decision making during a biosecurity response.
Current research in this theme includes (June 2019):
- Improved surveillance tools for key biosecurity targets
- Biosecurity excellence in port communities
- Integrating low power wide area networks into the biosecurity system
- Maori responses to biosecurity incursions
- Socially acceptable eradication tools underpinned by modelling for eradication
- Genetic methods for eradicating recent invaders
- Eradication toolkit and readiness
