Big Data and Biodiversity
Last week, the WA Mega Data Cluster ran an event “Big Data for Biodiversity”, which had a range of speakers... Continue reading →
Launching Wildlife Drones in WA
Deb from Wildlife Drones was in town in mid-December 2018 presenting their integrated wildlife tracking system to Department of Biodiversity,... Continue reading →
Challenge: Dynamic Fungi Field Guide
You hopefully read last October’s blog post on visualising available data on the collecting history of Leadbeater’s Possum in the... Continue reading →
Mosquito ground surveillance – an update
When Jake and I went across to Melbourne for the FOSS4G conference in November, I took the opportunity to catch up... Continue reading →
Delivering on collaboration
Since our last blog back in September about the BioSys work we had been finalising with the NSW Office of... 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 →
Drones for birds
A few years back Gaia Resources looked at the rise of drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles if you prefer) and... Continue reading →
Threatened species – mapping stories
I attended the NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Roadshow recently, hosted by WA’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Science Division. The... Continue reading →
StateNRM takes GRID to the next level with GRID Grants
Recently we completed the first phase of a really rewarding project with the State NRM Office that was all about... 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 →
BioSys and National Collaboration
In August 2015 I published a blog about a pilot for the BioSys software that we had developed with the... Continue reading →
Greener rocks…
As a geologist in the early years of my career (see right*), there was a prevailing theory that the “hard... Continue reading →
AgHack and the adventures of the Rangelands Rover
In the last weekend of July, New Jake, Tony, Voon-Li and I (with some cameos from Old Jake and Serge)... Continue reading →
BCCVL Workshops
Over the past few weeks we’ve attended a couple of different events hosted by Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory... 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 →
Fit-for-purpose for not-for-profit
Recently we began a project with the Royal Society of Queensland to make a new web application and online resource.... Continue reading →
MicroBlitz 2018 re-launch
I recently attended the re-launch of the MicroBlitz project, where the apps and website we re-built for them were one... Continue reading →
Testing automated transcription
Outside of my role as Technical Project Manager at Gaia Resources, I have a few hobbies and passions: spending time... Continue reading →
GRID Refresher training
As part of the State Natural Resource Management (NRM) Capability Grant funding, and our project to enhance GRID features in... Continue reading →
Getting to the root of a problem
Supporting a software product takes a lot of work – and it is not always clear where the effort needs... Continue reading →