Past projects
With years of work, we have categorised our past projects into eight broad streams.
Strengthening Surveillance
Surveillance and analysis reduce the risk of new entry of pests, diseases and weeds and better target the risks that matter most.
- Better and faster: learning from risk assessment methods and approaches in other fields
- Assessing the potential role of feral pigs in an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Australia
- Improving DAFF’s effectiveness in engaging the community about general surveillance
- Short-term population forecasting of the Australian Plague Locust
- Importation of small seed lots
- Analysis on compliance
- Pathway for risk-return opportunities
- Evidence of a plant pest's absence
- Biosecurity system effectiveness
- CBIS/CSP
- Increasing confidence in pre-border risk management
- Australian Zones and Compartments: new client service models for the agricultural export trade
- Developing models for the spread and management of National Priority Plant Pests
- Developing scientifically robust risk maps for priority plant pests
- Assessing ant pathways to better inform site selection for ant surveillance
- Optimising New Zealand’s marine biosecurity surveillance programme
- Proportional value of interventions across pathways and layers of the biosecurity system
- CBIS/CSP sensitivity analysis
- Models for border inspection for pelleted seeds: How much assurance?
- Estimating worldwide BMSB risk of establishment
- Import policy ‘health-check’ framework and tools
- Streamlining the risk assessment process
Building Scientific Capability
Building Scientific Capability themed research endeavours to ensure that science remains effective and cutting edge in an increasingly complex biosecurity environment by building capacity and developing professional networks and collaborations.
Data and Information
Data and Information research involves optimal use of data and information to facilitate better biosecurity risk management.
- Return on investment in international standard setting engagement: A case study on BSE status
- Technical feasibility of eradication
- Estimating pest/disease consequence to agriculture
- Automated image analysis for identifying the biofouling risk of vessels
- Quantitative model for assurance-based auditing of approved arrangements
- A Biosecurity Risk Research Portal to Inform Decision-Making
- Plant health surveillance
- Vector spread animal disease
- Importer compliance
- Australia’s FMD modelling
- Response to a marine pest incursion
- Decision support framework
- Optimisation of national resources for animal disease surveillance
- Automated image analysis for identifying biofouling risk on vessels
- Updating the Vessel Check biofouling risk assessment framework
- Re-evaluating management of established pests including the European wasp, Vespula germanica using biocontrol agents
- Ensuring a whole-of-department approach to the prioritisation of biosecurity risk and the setting of regulatory intervention levels
- Advanced profiling for air travellers and mail
Data Mining
Data Mining research aims to develop, test, and implement systems and protocols that provide effective and efficient inspection of large volumes of biosecurity data.
Spatial Analysis
Spatial Analysis research contributes to surveillance by using spatial models that anticipate the source of biosecurity risks, identify high risk pathways, predict the spread of current incursions and the locations of future biosecurity incursions.
Intelligence
Intelligence research develops and tests tools to assist biosecurity managers to foresee new threats.
Benefit Cost
Benefit Cost research is about determining the optimal–cost efficient approach for maximising the detection of different biosecurity incursions and managing current and future threats.
- Incentive-compatible biosecurity policies — a framework for regulatory design
- Quantitative risk-based prioritisation model for regulatory audit and compliance monitoring activities
- Value added — modelling the marginal return on investment within and across pathways
- Early detection FMD
- RRRA model
- Biosecurity incentives
- Decision support tools
Pathways
Pathways research develops tools and protocols for structuring the information about biosecurity threats.
- Developing a comprehensive approach to consequence estimation (‘Consequence Estimates’)
- Ornamental finfish
- Biosecurity risk from changes in climate, trade and pest and disease pathways
- Value added — modelling the marginal return on investment within and across pathways
- Pathways CSP
- Torres Strait RRA
- Illegal logging