Project index

Research leaders from the University of Melbourne and Agriculture Victoria are currently working to establish collaborative research opportunities and projects to be delivered jointly through PICCC. Below is a list of all active and archived projects developed under the PICCC banner.

Research theme	Project title	Project leadership	Status
Mitigation and Modelling	Target-N2O Targeting N2O emission hotspots in dairy pastures for mitigation action: microbes, stable isotope methods and modelling.	Dr Karina Marsden	Active
Adaptation	Forewarned is forearmed (FWFA): equipping farmers and agricultural value chains to proactively manage the impacts of extreme climate events	Prof Richard Eckard, Dr Ann-Maree Graham	Active
Nitrous oxide	Are nitrification inhibitors an economical choice to reduce nitrous oxide emissions under real farm scenarios?	Stefan Arndt, Luke Visser	Active
Adaptation	Australian Grains Free Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (AGFACE)	Glenn Fitzgerald	Active
	Barley yellow dwarf virus under elevated carbon dioxide	Glenn Fitzgerald	Active
Adaptation	Below-ground processes: soil-crop interactions and nutrient dynamics under elevated carbon dioxide	Glenn Fitzgerald	Active
Adaptation	Grain quality response to elevated carbon dioxide	Glenn Fitzgerald	Active
Adaptation	Crop traits for productivity in a high carbon dioxide world under drought and heat	Glenn Fitzgerald	Active
Methane	Technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing offset options for the beef and dairy industries	Joe Jacobs	Active
Modelling	Quantifying the whole farm systems impact of nitrogen best practice on dairy farms	Professor Richard Eckard	Active
Mitigation	Carbon farming training for extension providers in the Extension and Outreach program	Professor Richard Eckard, Dr Ann-Maree Graham	Archived
Adaptation	Crossing the threshold: adaptation tipping points for Australian fruit trees	Sigfredo Fuentes, Rebecca Darbyshire	Archived
Modelling	Dairy businesses for future climates	Gillian Hayman, Brendan Cullen	Archived
Nitrous oxide	Decreasing nitrous oxide emissions in high rainfall legume / wheat cropping systems	Sally Officer	Archived
Nitrous oxide	Enhanced efficiency fertilisers as mitigation tools for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from intensive agricultural systems in Australia	Deli Chen	Archived
Methane	Enteric methane abatement strategies for ruminant production systems in south eastern Australia	Peter Moate	Archived
Methane	Enteric methane mitigation strategies through manipulation of feeding systems for ruminant production in southern Australia	Brian Leury	Archived
Modelling	Facilitation of improvement in systems modelling capacity for Carbon Farming Futures	Andrew Moore	Archived
Nitrous oxide	Improving nitrous oxide abatement in high rainfall cropping systems	Rob Harris	Archived
Soil carbon	Increasing soil carbon in eastern Australian farming systems: linking management, nitrogen and productivity	Fiona Robertson	Archived
Methane	Livestock methane research cluster	Deli Chen	Archived
Adaptation	Mitigation and Adaptation for the Australian Dairy Industry	Deli Chen	Archived
Nitrous oxide	Mitigation of indirect greenhouse gases in intensive agricultural production systems with the use of inhibitors	Helen Suter	Archived
Nitrous oxide	Reducing nitrous oxide emissions from applied nitrogen with nitrification inhibitors: identification of the key drivers of performance	Deli Chen	Archived
Adaptation	Southern slopes climate change adaptation research partnership (SCARP)	Peat Leith	Archived
Nitrous oxide	The potential of inhibitors for the mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions from animal production systems in south-eastern Australia	Kevin Kelly	Archived
Nitrous oxide	The use of inhibitors to improve nitrogen cycling and reduce nitrous oxide losses from intensively grazed pasture systems	Professor Richard Eckard	Archived
Adaptation	Wheat trait response to elevated carbon dioxide	Glenn Fitzgerald	Archived
Adaptation	Wheat-pulse dynamics under elevated carbon dioxide	Glenn Fitzgerald	Archived
Modelling	Whole farm systems analysis of greenhouse gas abatement options for the southern Australian grazing industries	Richard Rawnsley	Archived
Modelling	Adaptation in the southern livestock industries: whole farm systems analysis of climate change impacts on the southern grazing industries	Professor Richard Eckard	Archived
Adaptation	Adaptation of a range of wheat types to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration	Glenn Fitzgerald	Archived
Adaptation	Adapting to agricultural pests and diseases under future climates	Glenn Fitzgerald	Archived