New Zealand Biosecurity Science Award winners of 2024!!!

We are enormously proud to be the New Zealand Biosecurity Science Award winners of 2024!

Ngā mihi nui to our team, collaborators and end-users for all your hard work and enthusiasm over the last 4.5 years!

Thank you,  Juliane Chetham and David Milner of Patuharakeke Te Iwi Trust, researchers Jo-Ann Stanton, Neil Gemmell, Jackson Treece, Jonika Edgecombe, Benjamín Alexander Durán-Vinet, and Gert-Jan Jeunen of University of Otago, Jas Pal Badyal and Joe Rawlinson of Durham University, Katie Dafforn and Dayanitha Damodaran of Macquarie University, Eric Treml, Simone Stevenson, Kyle Hilliam, Cal Faubel and Jess Phipps of Deakin University, Richard Yao, Melissa Welsh, Marie-Joo Le Guen, Rob Whitton, Sumanth Ranganathan and Julio Botero of Scion, Oli Floerl of landwaterpeople, Anastasija Zaiko of Sequench, and Cawthron researchers Grant Hopkins, Patrick Cahill, Xavier Pochon, Ulla von Ammon, Ian Davidson, Javier Atalah, Paul South, Ross Vennell, Michelle Scriver, Alaric McCarthy, Malcolm Smeaton, Te Rerekohu Tuterangiwhiu and Charlotte Jarvis. Finally, many thanks to end-user partners Auckland Council, Northland Regional Council, Marlborough District Council, Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), Nayland College, Nelson College and Nelson College for Girls.

Stuart Anderson with Cawthron’s Dr Ulla von Ammon and Dr Ian Davidson, who accepted the New Zealand Biosecurity Science Award in the beehive in Wellington on behalf of the whole Marine Biosecurity Toolbox team.

…and with former project co-leader Dr Anastasija Zaiko and project collaborator  Kaeden Leonard from NRC.