Engaging with the aquaculture industry to increase support for novel biosensor technology — ASN Events

Engaging with the aquaculture industry to increase support for novel biosensor technology (#101)

Sarah J Andrewartha 1
  1. CSIRO, Hobart, TAS, Australia

Monitoring of intensively reared aquaculture animals can be difficult.  Recent advancements in biosensors have enabled long-term, non-invasive monitoring of a range of physiological and physical variables that are relevant to animal health and productivity.  Consequently, sentinel aquaculture animals are being linked into large scale sensor networks (e.g. sense-T network) that aggregate information from many different data sources, including biosensors.  The real-time data produced have the potential to drive farm management decisions and provide insight into difficult problems such as climate change.  End-user and community support is integral for uptake of novel technologies such as biosensors.  Strong client relationships and can be reinforced by effectively publicising and disseminating information via traditional and new media.  Maintaining a public profile benefits the science team and can additionally benefit the clients through increased media exposure.  This project connects with the public, aquaculture farmers and funding bodies though both traditional (e.g. TV and print) and new media (e.g. Twitter) and community engagement.  By utilising media platforms for publicity and information dissemination we aim to increase uptake of our biosensor technology leading to greater data collection and ultimately to better informed management decisions on aquaculture farms.

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