Roll out for 2018
Every year we have a kickoff for the year that helps us to get a range of things ready for... Continue reading →
About Piers Higgs
Piers is the founder and Director of Gaia Resources, and has worked with the environmental industry for most of his career, and has a range of experience in GIS, ecology and data management.
Looking back at 2017
So, as 2017 comes to a close, it’s that time of year where I write some sort of wrap up... Continue reading →
Welcome to Flux
In what was surely one of the smoothest moves I’ve been involved with, we moved our Perth office from our... Continue reading →
The Fastest Digital Preservation in the West
Recently I gave a radio interview at local Perth radio station 6PR, about how Gaia Resources has evolved over the... Continue reading →
Mapping our History – and our Future
I did mention in my last blog that my brain was fizzing away about Archives… so much so, that when I... Continue reading →
A second trip to Wonderland…
Last year in October, I fell down a rabbit hole at my first Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) conference, and... Continue reading →
Supporting Students – and an Announcement!
A couple of weeks back, I was in the basement of Flux, a co-working space in Perth, being a mentor... Continue reading →
What do I want from taxonomy?
Recently, Alex and myself attended the Perth workshop on the “Decadal Scale Strategic Plan for Taxonomy and Biosystematics”, from the... Continue reading →
Queensland – supporting small businesses
I have very much come to think that the title of this blog could well be a good marketing slogan... Continue reading →
State of Natural Resource Management (and Coasts) in 2017
Last week, Tracey and I (with a cameo from Chris), attended the 2017 State Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Coastal... Continue reading →
Sharing, Data and GRID
We launched another GRID instance a week ago with a final training session for their staff and community groups, run... Continue reading →
Wildcare Helpline
Another of our apps for the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (formerly the Department of Parks and Wildlife) has... Continue reading →
Revisiting Training in the South-West
Last week, Tracey and I did a (long!) day trip to Bunbury to deliver some training for the South West... Continue reading →
Microblitz-ing
You might have seen the recent articles in the news and press release from UWA that we will be redeveloping... Continue reading →
Meet the “juniors”
Piers’ note: I’ve been asking for this from them for a few weeks, but since they haven’t provided it, I’ve... Continue reading →
Testing citizen science
We posted a teaser picture yesterday on our Gaia Resources Facebook account of some of the testing that we are... Continue reading →
Perth NRM releases GRID for community groups
As we highlighted in our previous post about the Living Landscapes conference, Perth Region NRM have been working with us... Continue reading →
Atlas of Environmental Health – Medical Entomology Update!
Last week the team here at Gaia Resources (led by Serge) released a new web update for the Medical Entomology... Continue reading →
Living Landscapes Conference
Yesterday, James, Tracey and I went to Perth NRM’s Living Landscapes conference, in our role in supporting Perth NRM and... Continue reading →
CSIRO steps ahead with CollectiveAccess
This is pretty exciting news for us, and we think for the whole Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum (GLAM) community.... Continue reading →
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