A new home for Australian Citizen Science
We’ve recently redeveloped the website for the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA) website: http://citizenscience.org.au. We’ve provided a range of support... 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 →
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 →
Dolphin Watch 2.0 Released!
We are very proud to have launched the new version of the Dolphin Watch app this week! You can see... Continue reading →
Maratus Man visits WA
Gaia Resources recently sponsored the visit to WA of Stuart Harris, citizen scientist extraordinaire and peacock-spider whisperer! On Monday 5th... Continue reading →
Dolphin Watch Day 2016
On a cool Monday night, Tracey and I went down to the Royal Perth Yacht club to join about 100... Continue reading →
Citizen Science at SWCC 2016
Last week Alex and Tracey were in Margaret River running a #citizenscience session at the South West Catchment Council (SWCC)... Continue reading →
The #nodolphin story
(or, Why Absence Records are Important) Here at Gaia Resources we have been supporting the Dolphin Watch program within the... Continue reading →
Dolphin Watch App Training by the River
On Tuesday night Alex, Gary and Tracey attended a Dolphin Watch app training session on the South Perth foreshore, run... 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 →
ALA Science Symposium
I recently got the opportunity to present at the third Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) Science Symposium, held at the... Continue reading →
Inspiring Communication
Just before Easter, Gaia Resources coordinated the running of another Citizen Science workshop at the 2016 Communicate to Inspire event,... Continue reading →
Citizen Science in Brisbane
Recently, Inspiring Australia asked us to be involved in their Citizen Science Forum in Brisbane, and so I trekked across... Continue reading →
Rottnest Kickoff Day
Every year I’ve run a kickoff day with the Gaia Resources team, to set the scene for the year ahead. ... Continue reading →
Microblitz – mapping soil biodiversity with citizen science
Over the last few months Gaia Resources has partnered with the University of Western Australia’s MicroBlitz team to build a... Continue reading →
Making historical ant data available
In 2010, as a third year environmental science student, I undertook a study project that would give me nightmares about... Continue reading →
2015 in Review
Previously, I’ve taken some time around Christmas to write about the highlights of the last 12 months, and I thought... Continue reading →
Mapping Citizen Science Projects
We’ve recently created a citizen science project webmap on our Citizen Science Hub where people can view the current citizen... Continue reading →
Citizen Science Presentations
I recently gave two presentations on citizen science, to quite different audiences! Firstly, I gave a presentation on aspects of... Continue reading →
iAwards 2015
Alex and I were in Melbourne back in August for the national iAwards, where the Dolphin Watch project (at least the... Continue reading →