MRIC Projects
Adding value to the region through collaborative projects that will make an impact.
Current projects
- Blue Green Algae
- Champion of climate resilience
- Drought consultations
- Early disease detection using airborne monitoring
- Farm Finances Think-tank
- Green hydrogen in the Mallee
- Hydrogen (GHD)
- Hyperspectral remote sensing for water and nutrient stress detection in orchards
- Integrating data to drive decision making on a farm
- Mental health tool
- Mechanising dried grape pruning
- Modelling Lake Shore Vegetation in Lake Victoria, NSW
- One Basin CRC
- Plant Health & Longevity
- Quick start project (Old Sensand project) – current
- Regional Drought Hub consultations - NW Irrigated Horticulture Node
- Technical innovations for the winter pruning operation for dried vine fruit
- The Mallee Hydrogen Cluster Mobility project plan
- Trusted exported of premium food and ag products
- Water Forecasting
- World leader in preventing and rapidly responding to significant pests and diseases
- Zero Emission Technology Farm Adoption Project (TBC Embargoed)
PHD projects
Completed projects
- Artificial intelligence methods for early disease detection using hyperspectral and thermal imagery
- CMA project Drivers of Horticultural Growth
- Economic Modelling Tool
- Evaluating the potential of the Mallee Region as a hydrogen hub through a sector coupling map
- GHD Mallee Hydrogen Technology Cluster Project Assessment
- GHD Mallee Hydrogen Technology Cluster Mobility Project Plan
- Girls in physics breakfast 2022
- Growing Smarter in the Mallee
- Horticultural Skills capacity framework to build resilience and skills retention
- Hydrogen Council Readiness Program
- Hydrogen coupling map
- Hydrogen Roadmap - Mallee Region
- Hydrogen and water in the Mallee
- Hydrogen in Victoria’s Mallee Prospectus
- Hyperspectral image analysis of almond varieties in the mallee region to develop classification algorithm
- Investigation of water required in availability in a hydrogen industry context in the Mallee region
- Irrigation Decision Making
- Mallee Hydrogen Technology Cluster Industry Information Session – Swan Hill
- Master student project – Sector Coupling Map
- Monitoring beehive health
- Plant Health & Longevity
- Roadmap to a hydrogen economy
- Victorian Hydrogen Clusters Forum
- Victorian Mallee Hydrogen Prospectus
- Virtual visiting delegation
- Water and Hydrogen in the Mallee
- Women and their places in water decision making in the Mallee Region
Current projects 
PHD projects 
Completed projects