TDWG Conference Wrap-up
After a week “nerding it up” with colleagues and friends, I thought that it would be worth trying to summarise... Continue reading →
About Piers Higgs
Piers is the founder and Director of Gaia Resources, and has worked with the environmental industry for most of his career, and has a range of experience in GIS, ecology and data management.
Recruitment closing soon
Just a short note: the GIS Graduate position we’re advertising here closes on Monday the 3rd of November. We’ll be... Continue reading →
TDWG over, still recruiting…
After a week of great talks and long dinners, the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Conference is over for 2008. Piers’ presentations... Continue reading →
Recruiting
We’ve started planning for next year, and are looking to add another GIS person to our team. We’re looking for... Continue reading →
TDWG
Anyone near Fremantle, Western Australia who works with biological data – note that the TDWG 2008 conference will be held in the... Continue reading →
ECAWA Information Management Talk
Last night I gave a talk for the Environmental Consultants Association of Western Australia on the topic of “A Practitioners... Continue reading →
ECAWA Presentation
Piers will be presenting a talk about Information Management, with a focus on data sources and tools that can be... Continue reading →
Back on deck
We’re back from our day trip to the Perth Zoo, and we’ve done up a blog post about it in... Continue reading →
Zoo trip
Today we spent the morning over at the Perth Zoo, doing one of their Behind the Scenes tours – this... Continue reading →
Public Holidays and Workshops
Monday the 29th September is a public holiday here in Western Australia, so our office will be closed. We’re also... Continue reading →
Cool gadget for the day
I’m currently parading around our office waving a Compact Flash card at people – its a 16GB (that’s not a... Continue reading →
Birds on the brain…
A few more records from the weekend from a survey of Lake Joondalup were added to the Digital Birding Database.... Continue reading →
Perks
I’ve just come back from a whirlwind trip to the Pilbara last night. I headed up to the Rio Tinto... Continue reading →
More birds
After a survey around Lake Gwelup this morning, more records have been added to the Digital Birding Database, bringing the... Continue reading →
Ventures into Open Source
At Gaia Resources we will shortly be participating in the open source community in two ways: As an end user... Continue reading →
Blogging away…
Everything is finally settling down after a very busy start to the new financial year. There’s not been much news lately... Continue reading →
Ventures into Open Source
At Gaia Resources we will shortly be participating in the open source community in two ways: As an end user... Continue reading →
ArcGIS 9.3 – More Detail, No Change
Akeal and I attended the Technology Directions Update for ArcGIS 9.3 put on by ESRI today. It pretty much confirmed... Continue reading →
Happy New (Financial) Year
Welcome to the 2008-2009 Financial Year. We’re back on deck and raring to go. Joining us today is Ryan White... Continue reading →
Our office is closed!
We are closed this Monday the 30th June for the end of the financial year. We’ll be back on deck... Continue reading →
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