Bristlebird Adventures: Designing Technology to Support Saving Wildlife
Editors note: We’ve been working with Jessie Oliver on a few citizen science projects over the last year or so,... Continue reading →
Dynamic Field Guides for Insects and Flora too
You perhaps read January’s blog post on developing a simple dynamic Fungi field guide from available resources. Our GIS tiger... Continue reading →
Introducing Kiri the service dog (in training)
Imagine your typical office environment in a high-rise building: long hours spent indoors in front of computers, low interaction between... Continue reading →
NatureLink and the Circular Economy
I had the good fortune to attend two very interesting events recently. And if I learnt anything from these two... Continue reading →
Notify Now – Victoria launches its Animal Disease Notification App
This week marks the launch by the Minister for Agriculture Jaclyn Symes of a new mobile application called “Notify Now”... Continue reading →
Supporting students around the country
In the last week, two Gaia Resources team members in different parts of Australia have proudly presented their spatial industry... Continue reading →
DrupalCamp Byron Bay 2019
Over 28-29 April 2019, Gaia Resources proudly sponsored Drupal Camp 2019, and I was very happy to attend and represent... Continue reading →
Choosing technology for Citizen Science
Editor’s note: This is the second blog from Jessie after her trip to the Citizen Science Association 2019 conference (read... Continue reading →
Phenological analysis of Eucalyptus wandoo for honey bee foraging
You can read this post on the Honey Bee Products Cooperative Research Centre site (see http://www.crchoneybeeproducts.com/phenological-analysis-of-eucalyptus-wandoo-for-honey-bee-foraging/). Why not try out... Continue reading →
2019 Citizen Science Association Conference – #CitSci2019
Editors note: What many people may not know is that we’ve been working with Jessie Oliver on a few citizen... Continue reading →
A greener cloud…
A few* years ago “the cloud” started to become the popular buzzword, and I’ll always remember AJ quipping that “only... Continue reading →
Welcome to Gill
We’ve been doing a round of recruiting lately, and the first announcement is that we have Gill White on board... Continue reading →
Big Data and Biodiversity
Last week, the WA Mega Data Cluster ran an event “Big Data for Biodiversity”, which had a range of speakers... Continue reading →
Digital Archives across Government
It’s no secret that we’ve been working with Archives for some time – starting with the State Records Office of... Continue reading →
Biological names management – a WA case study
Taxonomic names for biological entities have a rigorous scientific process for formulation, publication and application. They are the ‘handle’... Continue reading →
CHIN Collection Management System review: our summary
Back in 2017 the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) embarked on a vendor survey of Collection Management System software capabilities... Continue reading →
Reflections of a Hobbyist Beekeeper, Part Two
When Barbara and I previously talked about the research I’ve been working on with the Honey Bee Products Cooperative Research... Continue reading →
Automating Disturbance
No, we’re not talking about people losing their jobs here. We’re talking about automation being able to assist people to... Continue reading →
Observing the Earth
On the last day of February, I was pleased to host the first Whole of Community webinar for 2019 on... Continue reading →
Savanna burning and carbon abatement
A few weeks ago I headed along to the Savanna Fire Forum at Charles Darwin University, and to the subsequent... Continue reading →