Merry Christmas!
Today (Friday 21st December) is the last day of our working year here at Gaia Resources, and we’re off to... Continue reading →
Biodiversity informatics history 101
On the 11th November 1998 I made a presentation to the herbarium staff at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on the... Continue reading →
Delivering on collaboration
Since our last blog back in September about the BioSys work we had been finalising with the NSW Office of... Continue reading →
Environmental Health, Data Standards and Open Source Software
Recently, I was asked to give a couple of talks to the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security (IPCHS) around the... Continue reading →
FOSS4G open source conference recap
Jake and I are back from Melbourne where we were one of hundreds of open-source spatial software enthusiasts attending last... Continue reading →
What’s new in QGIS 3.4
As most regular readers would be aware by now, we’re supporters of QGIS, and have made our commercial training course... Continue reading →
Celebrating the rangelands
Last week I attended the Rangelands Natural Resource Management (NRM) Annual General Meeting and their showcase and sundowner. The theme... Continue reading →
Delivering value to our clients
Lately we’ve been focusing a lot as a company on creating positive customer experiences. We’ve always been a company with... Continue reading →
Drones for birds
A few years back Gaia Resources looked at the rise of drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles if you prefer) and... Continue reading →
Threatened species – mapping stories
I attended the NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Roadshow recently, hosted by WA’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Science Division. The... Continue reading →
Moving with the cloud
On Friday last week, we moved our team out of our old space at FLUX – to our new space... Continue reading →
Post apocalyptic archives
Last week was the annual Australian Society of Archivists conference held in Perth – with a theme of “Archives in... Continue reading →
Bootstrapping small archives
The last couple of days has seen Morgan and I at the Australian Society of Archivists national conference, held here... Continue reading →
StateNRM takes GRID to the next level with GRID Grants
Recently we completed the first phase of a really rewarding project with the State NRM Office that was all about... Continue reading →
Controlling Mosquitoes with Technology
Last week I was at the Mosquito Control Association of Australia (MCAA) conference in Tweed Heads, presenting an update on... Continue reading →
Dieback Information Group Conference 2018
I recently attended the 17th annual Dieback Information Group Conference 2018. Themed Working together – combating plant disease through collaboration.... Continue reading →
BioSys and National Collaboration
In August 2015 I published a blog about a pilot for the BioSys software that we had developed with the... Continue reading →
Greener rocks…
As a geologist in the early years of my career (see right*), there was a prevailing theory that the “hard... Continue reading →
Reusable Coffee Cups: 18 months on
The morning coffee rush is a familiar sight at any café. Baristas bustle behind their machines, scrawl names on plastic... Continue reading →
Researching honey bees, floristics and data management
We’ve been steadily developing our research capacity at Gaia Resources, and as part of that I am now seconded to... Continue reading →