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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Essential Service Volunteers App update
It is National Volunteers Week — what better time to provide an update on progress with the Essential Service Volunteers... Continue reading →
Essential Service Volunteers App
In late 2019, Gaia Resources answered a call from the Volunteer Bush Fire Brigades WA, who were seeking a partner... Continue reading →
IBSA Submissions Portal launch
Gaia Resources has recently been working with the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation to develop a submissions portal for... Continue reading →
Q-Album – visualising Queensland’s archive collections
In 2017 Gaia Resources was awarded a small grant as part of the TWiG (Testing Within Government) program within the... Continue reading →
Land for Wildlife gets a boost with GRID
We’ve recently had the pleasure of building a new on-line spatial system for the Land for Wildlife program. Land for... Continue reading →
DrupalSouth Hobart 2019 reflections
I attended the DrupalSouth Hobart 2019 conference for three days of talks, workshops, code sprints, social shindigs and intense learning... Continue reading →
DrupalCamp Byron Bay 2019
Over 28-29 April 2019, Gaia Resources proudly sponsored Drupal Camp 2019, and I was very happy to attend and represent... 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Australian Citizen Science Conference (#CitSciOz18)
Last week I posted about the talk I was giving in Adelaide at the second Australian Citizen Science Conference (#CitSciOz18) – Citizen Science... Continue reading →