Marine Mammals, Apps, and Citizen Science
I have just returned from attending the 3rd International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas (ICMMPA 3) in Adelaide. The... Continue reading →
A milestone at the WA Museum!
Since our last blog in May, Ben, Kehan and myself have been working with the team at the Western Australian... Continue reading →
Using PostGIS with QGIS
After attending the FOSS4G conference (see my last blog post) a couple of weeks ago, I was inspired to take... Continue reading →
FOSS4G Talk
Earlier in the year I wrote a blog post about having had my abstract accepted for the FOSS4G conference. Well... Continue reading →
Media based citizen science
We’ve been involved in citizen science projects for some time now, and I’ve been interested in finding ways to harvest... Continue reading →
GRID gets an update!
A while back we posted our first product pages about the Geographic Reporting Information Database (GRID) and you can read... Continue reading →
Science = ideas + data + communication
Piers’ note: Over the past few years, citizen science has been a significant part of our work here at Gaia... Continue reading →
Quantum GIS (QGIS) Training
In June, 2014 I spent two weeks providing training to South West Catchments Council (SWCC) in Quantum GIS (QGIS) and GRID... Continue reading →
Gaia Resources at FOSS4G
I have been lucky enough to have my abstract accepted for the international FOSS4G conference later this year in Portland... Continue reading →
Drawing Features in Leaflet using the Leaflet.draw plugin
Andrew Dennison and I recently implemented a tool into an existing web map to allow stakeholders to send in their... Continue reading →
More Work Experience
This week we have another guest blog, this time from our work experience student Pauline (our second work experience student... Continue reading →
A view from the trenches of Collection Management
When I started Gaia Resources, one of my biggest projects was supporting the Western Australian Museum’s collections databases. This work... Continue reading →
Another Award for POS Project
After previously winning a WA Planning Excellence award in 2013, the public open space project (POS) we worked on with... Continue reading →
Tipping Point Conference
James and I attended the state Natural Resource Management (NRM) conference (aka “The Tipping Point conference”) between May 7-9 in... Continue reading →
Citizen Science Network Australia
On Tuesday 6th May, as part of my week of travel, I was in Brisbane for the Citizen Science Network... Continue reading →
Newsletter
For a while I’ve been keen to create a newsletter for Gaia Resources. So, over the past few weeks, I’ve... Continue reading →
Geographic & Reporting Information Database – GRID
In 2013, Gaia Resources was commissioned by the South West Catchments Council (SWCC) to develop an online Geographical Information system... Continue reading →
Disturbance Mapping and the Mining Rehabilitation Fund
There have been changes to the regulations around disturbance mapping in Western Australia since the introduction of the Mining Rehabilitation... Continue reading →
The other side of citizen science
Last night I attended the Dolphin Watch volunteer training night and was one of 180 people that came along to... Continue reading →
NRM Regions Knowledge Conference
I’ve just come back from the NRM Regions Knowledge Conference in Launceston, Tasmania and as usual I’ll try to wrap... Continue reading →