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Student quad bike invention a winner

13 August 2020
An invention that could save lives has taken the top spot at the NIWA Waikato Science and Technology Fair.
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Researchers on hunt for fish nurseries

7 August 2020
NIWA researchers are heading out from Tasman early next week to survey an area thought to be home to important juvenile fish nurseries.
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Squat lobster memoir hot off the press

6 August 2020
After a decade-long effort, NIWA’s latest Biodiversity Memoir has just rolled off the presses. Written by marine biologist Kareen Schnabel, the 350-page treatise presents everything we currently know about the different kinds of squat lobster living in New Zealand’s waters.
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4 August 2020
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Students do the science on COVID protection

As the world battles a deadly pandemic, New Zealand school students have been beavering away at science fair projects researching the effectiveness of our own COVID-19 protection measures.
29 July 2020
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Nameless nodes get new look from NIWA

At the bottom of the Southern Ocean, near Cape Adare in East Antarctica, lies an undersea ridge which until this month was only known by its co-ordinates: -71.2132 latitude, 172.1649 longitude.
23 July 2020
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Concepts in sustainable aquaculture - IMTA

New ways to address environmental sustainability challenges.
21 July 2020
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NIWA crew face record time at sea

Coronavirus border restrictions mean six NIWA staff face four straight months at sea in a bid to keep an international ocean research project afloat.
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Features

Glacier melt: A Time Capsule

25 June 2020

Since 2016 enough ice has melted from the South Island’s Brewster Glacier to meet the drinking water needs of all New Zealanders for three years.

Tracking our ocean wanderers

Tracking our ocean wanderers

28 July 2020
Albatrosses may be masters of the skies, but they are surprisingly vulnerable on the water. Campbell Gardiner talks to two scientists working to keep these magnificent seabirds airborne.

Getting the taste for kingfish

Getting the taste for kingfish

28 July 2020
This award-winning kingfish sashimi dish is creating quite a splash – but it doesn’t come from the sea. We look at NIWA’s latest aquaculture success story and the new opportunities it’s on path to deliver.

Building pathways

Building pathways

28 July 2020
It has been a whirlwind first six months for Ngāpera Keegan and Tekiteora Rolleston-Gabel, the first two young researchers in NIWA’s newly established Māori Graduate Internship Programme.