Over the past few months we have undertaken a couple of sprint days with a team of developers from CSIRO. The sprints were an opportunity to work with a different team as well as gaining some familiarity with each other's products - namely our Biological Data Recording System (BDRS) and ...

Over the last couple of weeks, I put out a few tweets about mole crickets, after seeing a few in the backyard recently. What started it all The WA Museum has a great fact sheet up on their web site at http://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/Mole%20crickets.pdf which, if you are interested, is worth a ...

The SSSI conference (SSSC2013) was held April 17 - 19 in Canberra with approximately 350 delegates in attendance - including myself.  It was not one of the largest spatial conferences I've been to, but on reflection, the smaller ones are more intimate allowing me to meet new people, and catch-up ...

Anglo Gold Ashanti Australia (AGAA), recently approached Gaia Resources to complete their 2012 mine disturbance mapping for the Sunrise Dam Gold Mine (SDGM), as is required for their Annual Environmental Report (AER).  The method used in this project to capture and summarise the disturbance mapping was reliant on: Recent aerial ...

Over the past two days a group of botanists, ecologists and environmental scientists from a range of companies gathered together at Gaia Resources for a PATN training class - taught by father of PATN Lee Belbin.  If you want to know more about PATN have a look at the wealth ...