This project is a legacy from initial research funded through the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre. The outcome of this project was to develop a highly portable carbon monoxide fumigator, as a new agricultural product for rabbit management.
In 2017, the project received funding, to undertake further assessments and field trials of the product. However, due to a series of insurmountable engineering challenges the project was terminated in early 2018 by mutual agreement. The device was unable to meet the minimum requirement of 6% CO (± 0.5%) (based on Gigliottti 2009) that could be sustained long enough to have an effect within burrows. The best result achieved to date is 4.2% CO for about 4 minutes.
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Simon is an experienced senior manager who has focussed on applying and commercialising research and development (R&D) outputs for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, animal health, agricultural chemical and veterinary medicines industries. Simon was a Program Leader at the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre where he effectively engaged government agencies, industry, and other stakeholders to successfully manage a portfolio of projects aimed at reducing the impact pest species have on animal health and biosecurity.
Simon holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (hons), a PhD in Medicine, and was awarded a prestigious Professional Fulbright Scholarship in 2017.
Bill Aylett
This project is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources through an external research grant separate to the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions current innovation portfolio