Data Standards in Environmental Health
Back in December I wrote about some presentations that I did for the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, and mentioned... 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.
What is Natural Resource Management?
One of our important client ‘segments’ is the Natural Resource Management (NRM) industry, and we thought we’d introduce them to... Continue reading →
Giving back to the Environment
I thought I’d expand upon the previous blog post that mentioned our Perth Christmas function was held at Cottesloe, helping... Continue reading →
Welcome to 2019!
The new year has been and gone and here we are back again! The first thing we wanted to was... Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
End of Financial Year recap
We recently had our end of financial year recap day as a team, with a bit of a celebration thrown... Continue reading →
Supporting educators – and making your Mum proud
In an extension to our support for the future generations (like our previous student mentoring efforts), last weekend I gave... Continue reading →
Multiple (overdue) welcomes!
It’s been a very busy six months for us here at Gaia Resources, with three new team members joining us... Continue reading →
Recapping Collections
Every now and then it’s worth a review of what we’re doing. So, two weeks ago we ran an in-house... Continue reading →
Behind the scenes: Travels with Technology
I’ve had a really challenging and interesting week both here at home in Perth and away in Canberra, and throughout... Continue reading →
Corals of the World
One of the reasons I started Gaia Resources was to see how I could help a range of groups use... Continue reading →
A collective sigh of relief
Today the Natural Resource Management (NRM) community breathes a small sigh of relief as they press “Submit” on their tender... Continue reading →
A way forward for small Archives
How do I get started as a small archive in terms of technology? This paraphrases a series of questions that... Continue reading →
NRM and Regional Land Partnerships
At the moment, the Australian Natural Resource Management (NRM) community is in the midst of responding to the Regional Land... Continue reading →
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