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Birdlife Australia approached Gaia Resources to build a Citizen Science smartphone app to support a Black Cockatoo Significant Trees initiative in Western Australia.

As part of our own research and development, we have run a number of our own citizen science projects internally with our staff to test our own tools, like the BDRS.  These have included:

Prawn Watch is a citizen science project run by the Swan River Trust’s River Guardians program aimed at increasing the community’s understanding of prawns in Western Australia’s Swan and Canning rivers, and Gaia Resources has participated in this by developing the Prawn Watch app for Apple and Android mobile devices.  The app allows the prawning community

As part of the Coastal Walkabout citizen science hub, we have developed and deployed a mobile App for the Dolphin Watch project, for both Android and iPhone devices, and in March, 2017, we released a new version, rebuilt from the ground up.

This project initially involved the creation of a new Dolphin Watch App for the project, which was based on the Coastal Walkabout App, but with two major changes;

Gaia Resources were engaged by the University of Melbourne’s Clean Air Urban Landscapes Hub to develop a citizen science app to enable data capture for a range of urban species – bell frogs, flying-foxes and beneficial insects. This Hub is one of six in the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP).

Gaia Resources’ Director, Piers Higgs, was appointed as the Citizen Science Team Lead for the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) back in 2010, and led the ALA’s citizen science efforts, including the development of the Biological Data Recording System (BDRS).  This involved frequent travel to Canberra, along with a wide range of duties meeting with external groups, and implementing the BDRS for a wide range of projects under the ALA’s auspices.  Following on from this contract, Gaia

Gaia Resources supported the Discovery Circle project by providing hosting and development services around their web site and citizen science projects, based at www.discoverycircle.org.au.  The team at Gaia Resources were involved in setting up the infrastructure for the site, and provided ongoing hosting for the core Discovery Circle project, and its underlying citizen science projects as well.

Coastal Walkabout was an open-access citizen science initiative that we partnered together with Murdoch University and utilised smart-phone technology and social media to engage and motivate local communities to gather scientific observations within coastal and estuarine environments.

The Coastal Walkabout project was a development project that Gaia Resources were involved in throughout 2013 an in subsequent years. Gaia Resources deployed our now-deprecated BDRS product for the Coastal Walkabout project, and also developed Android and iPhone apps for the project.

Gaia Resources worked with Murdoch University’s Plant Pathology group to develop an app for recording Marri Canker disease around Western Australia.  The Marri (Corymbia calophylla) is an iconic tree species and plays a major role as a food source, habitat tree and refugia for numerous vertebrate and invertebrate fauna, as well as being a key species for southwest beekeeping and honey production.  Cankers are a symptom caused by the death of areas of

Under the Coastal Walkabout citizen science hub, we developed and deployed an App for the Bunbury Dolphin Discovery Centre, for both Android and iPhone devices.

This project involved the creation of a new App, based on the Coastal Walkabout App but restricted the sightings to the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus).