Mosquito Treatments
When developing a software solution, context is incredibly important. In our ongoing work with the Atlas of Environmental Health, we... 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.
Under GRID’s hood
Our GRID product – the online, easy to use GIS for the Natural Resources Management (NRM) community – continues to... Continue reading →
Expanding the Atlas to Victoria
Late last year Tracey and I headed to Victoria as the last part of an intensive project to get the... Continue reading →
Smaller Archives, Technology and Forever.
Last week I presented to the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists about the work that Gaia Resources does... Continue reading →
Reusable coffee cups
Piers’ edit: This is the first in a series of posts that Tracey and I came up with on a... Continue reading →
Supporting the Night Parrot
A while back we had a call from the Night Parrot Recovery Team (led by Allan Burbidge) asking if we... Continue reading →
Using QGIS for environmental restoration
One of the earliest projects we did using the Quantum GIS open source package was with Tranen Revegetation Systems, and... Continue reading →
More welcomes!
Piers’ note: Two things happened at the end of last year – we hired Chris and shamed Shay into finally writing... Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Showcasing Western Australian New Music
We have been working for quite some time on the Western Australian New Music Archive (WANMA), and recently we finished... Continue reading →
Western Australian History Goes Online
Last night we officially rolled out the new Royal Western Australian Historical Society (RWAHS) website, collections portal and online shop at their... Continue reading →
Phytophthora Dieback – Visualising Sampling Effort
While at the recent Dieback Information Group conference I had a few discussions with the Project Dieback team, driven by... Continue reading →
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