2016 wrapped up
2016 has been, in a word, “challenging”. The economy that we are operating in within Australia has been quite volatile... Continue reading →
Maratus Man visits WA
Gaia Resources recently sponsored the visit to WA of Stuart Harris, citizen scientist extraordinaire and peacock-spider whisperer! On Monday 5th... Continue reading →
NACC and GRID
We have recently implemented another instance of our Geographic & Reporting Information Database (GRID) product – this time for the... Continue reading →
Dolphin Watch Day 2016
On a cool Monday night, Tracey and I went down to the Royal Perth Yacht club to join about 100... Continue reading →
We’re hiring!
Yes, it’s that time again – we’re looking to hire new staff here at Gaia Resources, so brush off your... Continue reading →
Citizen Science at SWCC 2016
Last week Alex and Tracey were in Margaret River running a #citizenscience session at the South West Catchment Council (SWCC)... Continue reading →
The State of GRID
Along with the South West Catchments Council, we were successful in receiving a grant from the State Natural Resource Management Community... Continue reading →
The Disadvantages of Open Source
(Yes, this is a clickbait title) I heard a phrase recently which was really upsetting: “What are the disadvantages of... Continue reading →
Spatial Transformations
I was back to Sydney again last week for the Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) conference, with the... Continue reading →
Down the Rabbit Hole with Archives
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re... Continue reading →
Spring back to QGIS
Spring has brought some eager QGIS trainees to the fore, with two training courses run in as many months at... Continue reading →
Collecting Tasmania – an introduction
Gaia Resources was recently successful in a tender to work with the state of Tasmania in producing a web pilot... Continue reading →
Geo-referencing Archives with QGIS
A while back we posted about how we’d taken some town planning maps from the State Records Office of WA... Continue reading →
QGIS leaping ahead
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is really taking off as a free, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) package across the environmental (and... Continue reading →
When Collections become GLAM
I’m just back from a short trip to Sydney last week where Barbara Reed (Recordkeeping Innovation), James Bullen (Hudson Molonglo)... Continue reading →
Marine Parks of WA in your pocket…
Earlier this year, we started working on the Marine Parks iOS app for the Department of Parks and Wildlife. This... Continue reading →
Going Bananas
It’s probably become quite clear to our regular blog readers that we seem to have somehow established a second office... Continue reading →
Using Virtual Reality to assist decision making
We’ve been working and partnering with some Queensland based Natural Resource Management (NRM) groups to expand the services we offer... Continue reading →
The #nodolphin story
(or, Why Absence Records are Important) Here at Gaia Resources we have been supporting the Dolphin Watch program within the... Continue reading →
QGIS version 2.16 released (and training!)
QGIS is the world’s best open source (and free) desktop GIS software and it just keeps getting better. Want to... Continue reading →