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Marine Biosecurity

Preventing, responding to and recovering from pests and diseases that threaten our marine environment

 

The Australian Marine Biosecurity Database, or ‘AMBD’, is a web-based, user- friendly platform that will centralise research and information about Australian marine pathogens and pests.

With this knowledge, AMPD aims to foster new collaborations and partnerships with a broad range stakeholders to ultimately assist in the prevention of and the increase in response times to disease and pest outbreaks.​

The AMBD will address a key recommendation in the $5 million, 2015 Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resource’s review into national marine pest biosecurity arrangements to: “establish a national marine pest network to develop strong partnerships that enable Australia to better identify, assess, communicate and manage the risks of marine pests.”

The AMBD – an Australian first – will improve response times to pathogen outbreaks and allow stakeholders at all levels (citizens, researchers, government) to access and report information about marine pathogens, thereby building capacity in Australia’s ability to respond to threats to our fisheries and aquaculture industries, and more generally the sustainability and health of Australia’s coastal ecosystems.

The AMBD will have impact on Australia’s $100M ‘marine economy’ by creating a smart system for identifying individual pathogens, organisms known to be affected (incl. risks to human health), where outbreaks have been reported in the past (interactive map), future outbreak risk assessment, and response measures/solutions.

Visist AMBD website

RELEVANT LINKS

AMBD database 

Case Studies: Case studies are an opportunity to study marine diseases and pests in more detail. The case studies synthesise known research, using data from Australia and around the world, onto one page. They also highlight areas where not enough data is available to provide conclusive information, also called ‘research gaps’.

Reporting Marine pathogens and pests:  To report pests, signs of disease, or outbreaks, contact the National Hotline or your local state authorities.

Deakin Chief Investigators: A/Prof. Peter Macreadie & Dr Stacey Trevathan-Tackett

For more information contact Dr. Melissa Wartman, project coordinator for the AMBD.

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  • About
    • What we are about
    • Who we are
      • Professor Peter Macreadie
      • Dr Paul Carnell
      • Dr Stacey Trevathan-Tackett
      • Dr Maria M. Palacios
      • Dr Pawel Waryszak
      • Dr Melissa Wartman
      • Dr Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa
      • Dr Noyan Yilmaz
      • Dr Martino Malerba
      • Dr Lukas Schuster
      • Dr Tanveer Adyel
      • Dr Valentina Hurtado-McCormick
      • Dr Elodie Camprasse
      • Dr Sabiha Marine
      • Dr Vincent Raoult
      • Dr Jacqui Pocklington
      • Interns and Volunteers
      • Alumni
  • Research
    • Wetland Carbon
      • Blue Carbon
        • Seychelles Blue Carbon
        • Queensland Blue
        • Victoria’s Blue Carbon
        • Blue Carbon Management
      • Teal Carbon
        • Farm dams
        • Floating wetlands
        • Revitalising Australia’s Freshwater Wetlands
      • Tea Composition H2O
    • Ecosystem services
    • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Coastal Wetland Restoration
        • The Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration Program
        • Regenerating Our Coasts
        • Towards Blue Carbon Australian Carbon Credit Units
      • Kelp restoration
      • Freshwater Wetland Restoration
    • Citizen science
      • HSBC citizen science
      • GeelongPort citizen science
    • Microplastics
    • Marine Biosecurity
    • Decommissioning Infrastructure
  • Services
    • Wetland Carbon Assessments
    • Environmental Assessments
    • Environmental Restoration
    • Citizen Science
    • System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA)
    • Feasibility Assessments
    • Remote Sensing
    • Microbial Analysis
    • Marine Biosecurity
  • Publications
  • Vacancies
  • News
  • Donate
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