2011 has been another rollercoaster of a ride for us all here at Gaia Resources.  If I had to pick a theme for this year, it would be “change” (as compared to “craptacular” last year). Our biggest change has been in the way the company is structured, and as a ...

Over the last week or so, a team of us in the office have been testing and bug fixing the Version 1.0 release of the Biological Data Recording System (BDRS), software we are developing on behalf of the Atlas of Living Australia. To me, this has felt like an epic ...

The dev team goes bush Bushblitz is a biodiversity discovery partnership between the Australian Government (ABRS), BHP Billiton and Earthwatch Australia, which over the past 18 months has succeeded in discovering over 500 new species on a large number of total biological inventory surveys throughout Australia. Gaia Resources also hosts ...

Tom and I are just back from the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference (SSSC) in Wellington, New Zealand. The 2011 SSSC (Twitter hashtag #sssc2011) was a fair way to travel - just over 10,000km, a couple of thousand dollars, 5 hours of time difference or just over 3 tonnes of ...

Today we had another of our hackathon/sprint days, this time involving James, Scott Mills (one of my fellow Sciencemob founders) and myself.  Our aim was to see if we could hack together a cheap platform for aerial photography, using some easy-to-get gear. Our shopping list was: 1 Parrot AR Drone ...