Partnerships, people and change
Gaia Resources is currently undergoing a period of growth and change. However, one of the things that we are bringing... Continue reading →
Learning Never Ends: Professional Development at Gaia Resources
At Gaia Resources, every team member is encouraged to build their own Professional Development (PD) plan, identifying areas in which... Continue reading →
Open source software and open data
Perth is about to host the FOSS4G Oceania Conference (Perth Hub) on 12-13 November 2021, and up here in Darwin I’m... Continue reading →
Future Led: Superintelligent AI
I recently attended Future Led: Superintelligent AI – Social Saviour or world threat? The event was the second I have... Continue reading →
Spicing up work life with a bit of field work
Sometimes shaking things up a bit in your job is exactly the ticket you need. I had that opportunity recently... Continue reading →
Artificial Intelligence for fish species identification
As we wrote in our previous blog, the “Counting Fish” challenge was put forward by the Australian Institute of Marine... Continue reading →
The NAFI app is changing the way work is planned in the field
Controlled burning is underway across the western and central parts of tropical north Australia. As we move into the dry... Continue reading →
Archives Search changing customers lives at the Queensland State Archives
I walked into the quiet, near-empty Reading Room at the Queensland State Archives (QSA) recently. Approaching the staff I stated... Continue reading →
Our mobile apps – a recap
Following on from our recent posts on the NAFI Fire Information and Slug Sleuth apps, we thought it would be... Continue reading →
Slug Sleuth mobile app updates
Following on from last week’s blog on the launch of the NAFI Fire Information app, we thought we’d mention some... Continue reading →
Fire information app launch
Today marks the launch of the NAFI Fire Information app by the team at Charles Darwin University (CDU) responsible for maintaining Northern... Continue reading →
Preview of the Territory NRM Conference 2020
The Territory NRM 2020 conference will be kicking off in Darwin on 17 November, and Chris will be teaming up with Rohan... Continue reading →
TDWG 2020 Conference – avenues into integration
The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual conference was, like so many others, an online-only experience. With an audience of uber-nerds... Continue reading →
Fire mapping QGIS plugin
Within my first two weeks of moving to Darwin, Rohan Fisher from the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research invited me... Continue reading →
Supporting Emergency Services
Regular readers of our posts will already know of Gaia Resources involvement in the development of the Essential Services Volunteers... Continue reading →
Marine Parks WA app gets an uplift
With the support and collaboration of Parks Australia‘s Australian Marine Parks team and Rachel Hutton at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation... Continue reading →
Drones for Wildlife
Over the last couple of years, Gaia Resources developed a desktop app for the team at Wildlife Drones to act... Continue reading →
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Data Science Upskilling Bootcamp
A new and interesting trend is emerging as teachers from all over the world embrace virtual training. It opens many... Continue reading →
Sustainability and the Cloud
We had lots of positive feedback on last week’s cloud post. One correspondent, however, raised a major point I hadn’t... Continue reading →
Gaia’s cloud secret weapon
Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon Aurora, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon DynamoDB….oh, hello there! Sorry, just... Continue reading →