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 →
Dolphin Watch App Training by the River
On Tuesday night Alex, Gary and Tracey attended a Dolphin Watch app training session on the South Perth foreshore, run... Continue reading →
Dolphins or Sharks?
A while ago, Piers set another of his “challenges” about looking at sharks and dolphin sightings in the Swan River... Continue reading →
ALA Science Symposium
I recently got the opportunity to present at the third Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) Science Symposium, held at the... Continue reading →
Inspiring Communication
Just before Easter, Gaia Resources coordinated the running of another Citizen Science workshop at the 2016 Communicate to Inspire event,... Continue reading →
Citizen Science in Brisbane
Recently, Inspiring Australia asked us to be involved in their Citizen Science Forum in Brisbane, and so I trekked across... Continue reading →
Microblitz – mapping soil biodiversity with citizen science
Over the last few months Gaia Resources has partnered with the University of Western Australia’s MicroBlitz team to build a... Continue reading →
Making historical ant data available
In 2010, as a third year environmental science student, I undertook a study project that would give me nightmares about... Continue reading →
2015 in Review
Previously, I’ve taken some time around Christmas to write about the highlights of the last 12 months, and I thought... Continue reading →
Mapping Citizen Science Projects
We’ve recently created a citizen science project webmap on our Citizen Science Hub where people can view the current citizen... Continue reading →
Citizen Science Presentations
I recently gave two presentations on citizen science, to quite different audiences! Firstly, I gave a presentation on aspects of... Continue reading →
iAwards 2015
Alex and I were in Melbourne back in August for the national iAwards, where the Dolphin Watch project (at least the... Continue reading →
Kangaroo Island / Victor Harbour Dolphin Watch
Today we released a new project on our Citizen Science Hub, this one for Kangaroo Island / Victor Harbor Dolphin... Continue reading →
The State of Natural Resource Management in 2015
We’re just back from the State Natural Resource Management (NRM) conference, where Gaia Resources was a Gold Sponsor. This is... Continue reading →
Monitoring Marri Canker in South West WA
Tuesday was an interesting day. I attended the Australasian Plant Pathology Society (APPS) conference in Fremantle and presented a paper... Continue reading →
A day in the sun!
A software engineer, a taxonomist, an environmental scientist and a spatial ecologist walk into a community science event… Well, it’s... Continue reading →
Australian Citizen Science Association Conference
Alex and I flew back from the inaugural Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA) in Canberra on Sunday. I don’t think... Continue reading →
Gaia Resources Citizen Science Hub
This afternoon Alex and I fly out to Canberra for the inaugural Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA) conference, where Gaia... Continue reading →
New versions of Prawn Watch app
New versions of the Prawn Watch app for Apple and Android mobile devices have been recently released. Prawn Watch is a citizen science project... Continue reading →
Dolphin Watch Training
Piers and I attended a Dolphin Watch training session on the South Perth foreshore last Thursday, supporting the team from... Continue reading →