Last night I went to the Golden Gecko awards presentation, as our work with Rio Tinto on the Environmental Characteristics and Capabilities project was part of a submission this year. Much to our delight, the submission took home a Certificate of Merit! The Environmental Characteristics and Capabilities project has been ...

This week sees two pretty big milestones. I'm currently on the road again, this time in Melbourne for the release of our first citizen science portal for our work with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).  This was held at a launch for the Biodiversity Snapshots web site, which has ...

On Friday, Sam Nelson from Greenbase came over to give us a return presentation about their work with National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) - and other - reporting. We had previously given them an overview of our disturbance mapping process.  You can see a flyer about our disturbance mapping work here. ...

In late September, I will be heading to Canberra to present a joint paper written between myself and Dr. Ely Wallis of Museum Victoria at the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) 2010 Conference.  This paper will be about our work together, as part of the Atlas of Living Australia ...

I recently had the opportunity to attend the WA launch of MapInfo 10.5 and while this release feels less revolutionary than the move from 9.5 to 10.0 there are still a lot of nice features in there. The thing that is exciting me most about the direction of MapInfo over ...