Supporting Emergency Services
Regular readers of our posts will already know of Gaia Resources involvement in the development of the Essential Services Volunteers... Continue reading →
The rise of Webinars
We’ve talked in previous blogs about adapting working arrangements in the face of these really challenging times, but I’m not sure... Continue reading →
Archives and RetroMaps
I attended a recent presentation organised by the National Archives of Australia (NAA) at their Perth offices in Northbridge, entitled... Continue reading →
Marine Parks WA app gets an uplift
With the support and collaboration of Parks Australia‘s Australian Marine Parks team and Rachel Hutton at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation... Continue reading →
Biodiversity Information Standards 2020 Virtual Conference
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is a not-for-profit, scientific and educational association formed to establish international collaboration among the creators, managers... Continue reading →
Latest on the Essential Service Volunteers App
You may have read about Gaia Resources involvement in the development of the Essential Services Volunteers app previously this year.... Continue reading →
Drones for Wildlife
Over the last couple of years, Gaia Resources developed a desktop app for the team at Wildlife Drones to act... Continue reading →
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Data Science Upskilling Bootcamp
A new and interesting trend is emerging as teachers from all over the world embrace virtual training. It opens many... Continue reading →
Sustainability and the Cloud
We had lots of positive feedback on last week’s cloud post. One correspondent, however, raised a major point I hadn’t... Continue reading →
Gaia’s cloud secret weapon
Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon Aurora, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon DynamoDB….oh, hello there! Sorry, just... Continue reading →
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 →
Managing Tasmania
We have been working with the collections community in Tasmania for quite some time around some other projects (as Morgan... Continue reading →
All things Spatial! 🌏
As we gear up to the end of financial year it’s always good to look back on the great work... Continue reading →
RetroMaps
Gaia Resources was engaged by the State Records Office of Western Australia (SROWA) in early 2019 to design and develop... Continue reading →
Twenty years of WA floristic data
I’ve been with Gaia Resources for six years now (!), and grateful to have found a home where my specialist... Continue reading →
Current biodiversity initiatives in Australia
I recently attended an online forum presenting the outcomes of a major review of Australia’s taxonomic resources, as part of... Continue reading →
Essential Service Volunteers App update
It is National Volunteers Week — what better time to provide an update on progress with the Essential Service Volunteers... Continue reading →
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 →
Virtual Scavenger Hunt – Metrogaining!
Thanks to the efforts of one of our team, Voon-Li Chung, we went on a “virtual scavenger hunt” (later dubbed... Continue reading →
Plugging into data and map automation in QGIS 3
The staff at Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) have been using QGIS as an operational tool for mapping and analysis... Continue reading →