Blogs

In May we celebrated the United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity with a blog about how the environmental projects we deliver at Gaia Resources contribute to the United Nations goals for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.

Jarrad’s note: We hand the blog over to Mieke this time who was looking at how much of her work - including a lot of it at Gaia Resources - has involved the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).  This is her exploration of her journey with the ALA:

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As we get to the End Of Financial Year again we have taken the time to review the last 12 months, and we’ve got to say it’s been a real mixed bag!

Recently, three of our team - Piers, Sarah and Tyler - were guests at the 26th SouthEast Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) conference in the heat and humidity of Ipoh, Malaysia, very kindly supported by the National Archives of Malaysia, who also supported our travel to the conference.

There’s nothing quite like seeing years of collaboration, science, technical expertise and sheer grit come together to create something that can genuinely make the world a better place.

Gaia Resources has been supporting the Western Australian branch of the Australian Society of Archivists’ Professional Development days for quite a few years:

Travelling for a conference is always an outsized experience. New places, new people, new connections, new directions, so much input! So it was with much excitement that I travelled to Wellington, New Zealand recently for the DrupalSouth 2026 conference.

The theme for this year’s United Nations International Day for Biodiversity on 22 May 2026 is ‘Acting locally for global impact’. To celebrate this day, we’ve handed the blog over to Gill White, one of our Consulting Scientists, to reflect on how the environmental data projects we deliver at Gaia Resources contribute to the United Nations’ work on biodiversity conservation.

Life moves pretty fast. So does technology. If you’ve been in tech over the last five years, you know the pace of AI advancement is relentless. At Gaia Resources, we’ve shared our AI journey from fish image detection (2021) and handwriting analysis (2022) to more recently building the MATE framework for AI transcription and search of archival records. But for a team of passionate professionals, 'building' is never truly finished. We review, we audit, and - most importantly - we continue to tinker.

They say time flies when you’re having fun, that’s exactly how it feels after recently celebrating my 5 years at Gaia.

I joined the team in March 2021, stepping into the role of Marketing Coordinator.