CRC30084 Biosecurity Quarantine Model System

Overview

Project status: In progress

This project is to develop the statistical design of a multi-component biosecurity surveillance program. This project will take place within the Greater Gorgon natural gas development project in a nature reserve on Barrow Island, Western Australia.

The CRC NPB has been contracted to undertake the project by Chevron Australia Pty Ltd, the lead partner of the Gorgon Joint Venture. State government approval has been granted for building a gas plant on the island, conditional upon rigorous biosecurity, including a detection program with specified statistical power for non-indigenous species (NIS). The project focus is on terrestrial invertebrates and a supplementary project was created to develop surveillance plans for terrestrial plants and vertebrates (CRC10117 Statistical Design of Terrestrial Plant and Vertebrate Surveillance).

Research leader
Research team
QUT
Organisational unit
Lead unit Science and Engineering Faculty Other units
Start date
1st January 2007
End date
1st January 2009
Research area
Biogeoscience
 

Projects

CRC10117 Statistical Design of Terrestrial Plant and Vertebrate Surveillance

Partnerships

  • Chevron Australia Pty Ltd

  • WA Department of Agriculture and Food

  • Curtin University of Technology

  • various contributing experts