Exploration in search of Biosecurity impact video transcript
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Title screen with an aerial shot of snow-covered mountains and clouds as the background. Turquoise text reads “SfTI’s Biosecurity Technology Spearhead in development”. Underneath is the Science for Technological National Science Challenge logo. As the title disappears it is replaced with the words “The Mission:” in turquoise font and underneath in white “Design a biosecurity technology research project” in the bottom left of the screen. The image switches to another shot of snowy mountains with the name “Desi Ramoo” appearing in dark blue at the bottom right of the screen and underneath, “Ministry for Primary Industries” in white. A semi-transparent overlay covers the image and a graphic of a word cloud appears on the left side of the screen. It makes a circle with the outline of a lightbulb in the negative space. There are dozens of words written in gold and shades of blue. Some include Automation, Biosecurity, Integrating, Satellite, Open science, and Remote.
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Speaker 1: Desi Ramoo - Ministry of Primary Industries:
This group is actually here to do something that's pretty unique in terms of exploring the art of the possible. We've got this capability. These are ideas.
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Now we see a river delta in a barren valley between densely forested mountains. In the background, we can see snow-capped mountains. The words that appear in the bottom right of the screen reads “Sally Davenport Director” and underneath “Science for Technological Innovation”. The camera zooms in and switches to a bird-eye view looking straight down at the river.
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Speaker 2: Sally Davenport - Science for Technological National Science Challenge Director:
So welcome everyone to this experiment by security technology, all these things that's front and centre of a lot of New Zealander's minds.
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A video of a beach with green hills in the background. Two adults and three children stand in the shallow waters up to their ankles wearing casual clothing. They are all bent over with their hands in the water, the two adults have buckets next to them. In the bottom right corner, it reads “Tame Malcolm Te Arawa: Ngāti Tarāwhai, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Ngararanui, Ngāti Whakaue. Te Tira Whakamataki Operations Manager” and under the line “Biological Heritage National Science Challenge Leadership Team”. The shot switches to an older man and a young boy both in striped polo shirts. They both look at something the boy is holding out of view of the camera. The boy looks very excited. He brings it up and goes to hand it to the man who looks pleased.
Next, we look down into a plastic bucket filled with large bivalves. Then we see a shot of tree-covered hills with a footbridge in the distance occupied by several people. There is white steam mostly to the right of the screen but also in patches throughout. Next, three people talk facing away from the camera. They look at what appears to be a mudflat with steam rising from it. It appears to be a hot spring The words “BIG Potential impact” appear in the centre of the screen in turquoise font with the word ‘big’ in all capital letters.
We switch to a large river with trees on either side. A speed boat travels up the centre of the river towards the top of the screen.
Next, we see a close-up of a fish as someone pulls it out of the water, followed by a shot of the fisherman, three men in blue and yellow waders, on what appears to be a fishing boat.
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Speaker 3: Tame Malcolm (Te Arawa: Ngāti Tarāwhai, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Ngararanui, Ngāti Whakaue - Te Tira Whakamataki Operations Manager, Biological Heritage National Science Challenge Leadership team:
It was a bit more holistic and aligned with Te Ao Māori views and values to look at it as a whole big picture, and the Māori economy is between $50 and $60 billion. And then to underpinning all of it is bio security.
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A heat map on a mostly blue screen with a small green, yellow, and red shape towards the right. The shape has a blue square outline around it. The bottom right corner now reads “Grant Ryan” and underneath it “Cacophony”. As the shape moves, the shape reveals itself to be a rodent of some kind. A similar second shape appears sporadically. The first shape scurries about until it moves to the top of the screen and out of view.
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Speaker 4: Grant Ryan - Cacophony:
There's a massive room to improve what we're doing by using better technology.
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Next we see a close up of a yellow line on tarmac and the words “The BIG challenges” appear in the centre, with the word ‘big’ all capitalised. A stream of light appears on the tarmac and the shot switches to show the tarmac is the floor to a room where the stream of light is coming between the opening of two walls that slide apart. The shot switches to further back and now we see it is an aeroplane hanger viewed from under the wing of a plane, and past two men in high-vis jackets who stand under the wing and inspect it.
Next, we see the men outside moving around the plane in the bright light touching the outer panels. At the bottom right of the screen appear the words “Steve Wilson” and underneath “NZ Product Accelerator Program”. Switch to a shot following a woman from behind as she walks down a hallway of what looks to be an airport. She walks underneath a wooden archway, and continues down a modern looking hallway, with a feature roof that appears to be made of interlocking triangles of foam. We then see the back of a man’s head as he looks out a large window as a passenger plane with a black and white silver fern painted on it begins to take off. There are snowy mountains in the background. Switch to another shot of three children who sit at a dining table in the airport where we see another plane moving on the runway through the window.
Next is a little boy who peaks through a small window from inside a plane. Last is a view from a plane window of clouds and hills.
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Speaker 5: Steve Wilson - NZ Product Accelerator Program:
Our current government has a vision of creating the world's smartest borders. So we want to do things like check for explosions. We need to look for signs of sickness and at the moment elevated temperatures and heart rates. Might only be a start. We'd need to find a way of detecting viral markers or COVID-19.
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There is an aerial shot of green rolling hills and an ocean in the background. The words “The BIG questions” appear with the word ‘big’ in all capital letters. A close-up of a topographic map with many blue dots outlined in black joined by white lines fills the screen. The name “Helen Nathan” appears in the bottom right and underneath “ZIP, Zero Invasive Predators”. The scene switches to a shot taken from the water pointed inland. Between the beach and the mountain in the background, there are densely packed trees all with the same long very thin trucks. On the left of the screen are three photograph overlays lined up vertically. The top is a mouse or rat, the middle is a possum, and the bottom is a stoat. The background video switches to a shrub filled valley with a river running through it and a mountain in the background. Then, a close up of a mossy log with forest behind.
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Speaker 6: Helen Nathan - ZIP, Zero Invasive Predators:
When you're working at scales like this, how do you detect or monitor the presence of predators? What tools and technologies can we get that will help us to actively search for these predators, rather than just sitting and waiting?
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The camera is now underwater and we see a submerged piece of equipment as it approaches aquatic plants and points itself down toward them. In the bottom right corner, the name “Jourdan Templeton” appears and underneath “CTO Aware Group”. Next, we see open farmland with a dirt road lined with basic wood and wire fences on either side. A white drone flies over it. Back to an aerial shot where we look down over clouds at the ocean and the hilly coastline. This is followed by a shot of a robot with yellow panels. It is in the shape of a quadruped, appears to be roughly medium dog size, but with no discernible head or tail. It walks over a pile of scrap wood and metal with apparent ease. The scene switches to a shot of the camera following the shoreline with waves coming in. Two National Science Challenges logos appear one above the other. The top is in blue and reads Science for Technological Innovation and the bottom in brown reads New Zealand’s Biological Heritage.
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Speaker 7: Jourdan Templeton - CTO Aware Group:
We're talking about remote sensors and cameras and all these things that we can attach these devices to. It's a drone, it's a weather balloon, but what about if you want it to collect information on the ground? That's what we're seeing a lot of robotics coming into play at the moment.
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A man looks off into the distance while sitting on his haunches. He has one hand on the dial of some kind of equipment that looks like an laptop within a plastic suitcase. Wires are plugged into it and go off-screen. He is wearing a cap and polo with a matching logo. He is on a city waterfront with boats docked behind him. In the bottom right corner the words “Leigh Tait, Marine Ecologist” appear with “NIWA” underneath. Now we look down into the water at a submerged piece of equipment that has a yellow canister in the centre and a metal frame around it, followed by a few shots of aquatic plants shot from underwater. Over the last clip the web address stfichallenge.govt.nz appears in the centre of the screen.
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Speaker 8: Leigh Tait - Marine Ecologist, NIWA:
My expectations of this mission are that the goals will be really ambitious, potentially increasing our status as world leaders bio security in New Zealand.