Big Data and Biodiversity
Last week, the WA Mega Data Cluster ran an event “Big Data for Biodiversity”, which had a range of speakers... Continue reading →
Automating Disturbance
No, we’re not talking about people losing their jobs here. We’re talking about automation being able to assist people to... Continue reading →
Topology in GIS
What is topology in a geographic information system? In spatial technology, the word “topology” is all about the building blocks... Continue reading →
Data Standards in Environmental Health
Back in December I wrote about some presentations that I did for the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, and mentioned... Continue reading →
Biodiversity informatics future requirements
In a blog from last month I wrote about the good work that’s already been done within individual biodiversity knowledge domains. But... Continue reading →
Describing items for small archives – a practical set of considerations
Back in October 2018, Piers presented to the 2018 ASA Conference with Bootstrapping small archives. One of the key artefacts... 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 →
Mosquito ground surveillance – an update
When Jake and I went across to Melbourne for the FOSS4G conference in November, I took the opportunity to catch up... Continue reading →
Biodiversity informatics history 101
On the 11th November 1998 I made a presentation to the herbarium staff at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on the... Continue reading →
Delivering on collaboration
Since our last blog back in September about the BioSys work we had been finalising with the NSW Office of... Continue reading →
Environmental Health, Data Standards and Open Source Software
Recently, I was asked to give a couple of talks to the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security (IPCHS) around 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 →
Researching honey bees, floristics and data management
We’ve been steadily developing our research capacity at Gaia Resources, and as part of that I am now seconded to... Continue reading →
WA Landcare Network Forum
I recently attended the annual WA Landcare Network (WALN) Members and Stakeholders Forum, held at the Cockburn Wetlands Education Centre. ... Continue reading →
NRM and Regional Land Partnerships
At the moment, the Australian Natural Resource Management (NRM) community is in the midst of responding to the Regional Land... Continue reading →
A better deal for NRM data!
As part of the GRID Enhancements Project funded by a State Natural Resource Management (NRM) Capability Grant, we’ve been working... Continue reading →
Data in Environmental Regulation
Piers’ note: Chris and I have been discussing this for a while, and this is the first of a likely... Continue reading →
SLIP data and GRID
Jake recently went along to a Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP) developers workshop to learn about changes Landgate were making... Continue reading →
Sharing is caring… linkages in GRID
This is the fourth post from a series that documents the progress of the State Natural Resource Management funded, South West... Continue reading →
Data management for NRMs – a bugbear resolved
Along with the South West Catchments Council we were successful in receiving funding from the State Natural Resource Management Community... Continue reading →