Starting the way forward
Today is the 1st of July, and it’s the start of a new financial year. So it seems time to... Continue reading →
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An update on our Coronavirus response
The Gaia Resources team have been working from home since mid-March (see our initial two blogs). As part of this,... Continue reading →
Starting a new job during a Pandemic
Editor’s note: Tania Ryan, the new Support Coordinator in our Brisbane office, volunteered to give us an insight into the... Continue reading →
Staying connected
When we first learned that the Coronavirus was becoming something to consider, we did our preparations, tested our plan and... Continue reading →
Working from home (+pets)
Yesterday, Gaia Resources trialled our Business Continuity Plan (developed under our recent ISO accreditation), by having all our staff in... 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 →
Supporting students through Work in Learning
Over the years, we’ve tried to support future generations of students wherever we can: through the scholarship we used to... Continue reading →
Designing the Archive
I leapt into the rabbit hole that is Archives yet again this year – building on my previous attendance in... Continue reading →
Choosing technology for Citizen Science
Editor’s note: This is the second blog from Jessie after her trip to the Citizen Science Association 2019 conference (read... Continue reading →
2019 Citizen Science Association Conference – #CitSci2019
Editors note: What many people may not know is that we’ve been working with Jessie Oliver on a few citizen... Continue reading →
Digital Archives across Government
It’s no secret that we’ve been working with Archives for some time – starting with the State Records Office of... Continue reading →
What is Natural Resource Management?
One of our important client ‘segments’ is the Natural Resource Management (NRM) industry, and we thought we’d introduce them to... 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 →
Bootstrapping small archives
The last couple of days has seen Morgan and I at the Australian Society of Archivists national conference, held here... Continue reading →
End of Financial Year recap
We recently had our end of financial year recap day as a team, with a bit of a celebration thrown... 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 →
Recapping Collections
Every now and then it’s worth a review of what we’re doing. So, two weeks ago we ran an in-house... Continue reading →
Behind the scenes: Travels with Technology
I’ve had a really challenging and interesting week both here at home in Perth and away in Canberra, and throughout... Continue reading →
Free QGIS Online Training
Well, that just happened. We have just taken our entire Environmental Quantum GIS (QGIS) training course and offered it free... Continue reading →
A collective sigh of relief
Today the Natural Resource Management (NRM) community breathes a small sigh of relief as they press “Submit” on their tender... Continue reading →