Dynamic Field Guides for Insects and Flora too
You perhaps read January’s blog post on developing a simple dynamic Fungi field guide from available resources. Our GIS tiger... Continue reading →
Supporting students around the country
In the last week, two Gaia Resources team members in different parts of Australia have proudly presented their spatial industry... Continue reading →
Phenological analysis of Eucalyptus wandoo for honey bee foraging
As part of the project I’m involved with in the Honey Bee Products Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) I recently delivered a... Continue reading →
Challenge: Dynamic Fungi Field Guide
You hopefully read last October’s blog post on visualising available data on the collecting history of Leadbeater’s Possum in the... Continue reading →
Threatened species – mapping stories
I attended the NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Roadshow recently, hosted by WA’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Science Division. The... Continue reading →
StateNRM takes GRID to the next level with GRID Grants
Recently we completed the first phase of a really rewarding project with the State NRM Office that was all about... Continue reading →
Controlling Mosquitoes with Technology
Last week I was at the Mosquito Control Association of Australia (MCAA) conference in Tweed Heads, presenting an update on... Continue reading →
Greener rocks…
As a geologist in the early years of my career (see right*), there was a prevailing theory that the “hard... Continue reading →
BCCVL Workshops
Over the past few weeks we’ve attended a couple of different events hosted by Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory... Continue reading →
GRID Refresher training
As part of the State Natural Resource Management (NRM) Capability Grant funding, and our project to enhance GRID features in... Continue reading →
Open data and innovation in Queensland
Last Friday Gaia Resources was invited to Queensland’s International Open Data Day event, so I went along to set up... 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 →
Parks and Green Space Surveys
Following on from previous work we did on the Public Open Space (POS) Tool (see our project wrap up here)... Continue reading →
Black-Cockatoo Community Wisdom Survey
BirdLife Western Australia’s Southwest Black-Cockatoo Recovery Program has been working with local communities, landholders and land managers since 2001 to research,... Continue reading →
Expanding the Atlas to Victoria
Late last year Tracey and I headed to Victoria as the last part of an intensive project to get the... Continue reading →
Phytophthora Dieback – Visualising Sampling Effort
While at the recent Dieback Information Group conference I had a few discussions with the Project Dieback team, driven by... Continue reading →
Cumulative Impacts
While James and I were at the recent Fauna Survey Workshop, there was a comment about groups doing environmental surveys... Continue reading →
The State of Dieback
Last week’s theme for James and I was Dieback. During the week, I have been wondering how many people we know,... Continue reading →
Dolphins or Sharks?
A while ago, Piers set another of his “challenges” about looking at sharks and dolphin sightings in the Swan River... Continue reading →
Corals of the World – Beta launched
For the last couple of years, we’ve been working with Charlie Veron, Mary Stafford-Smith, Emre Turak and Lyndon DeVantier on... Continue reading →