World class research, contributing to our understanding of greenhouse gases, ozone depletion, and urban air pollution.
Atmosphere
Atmosphere
World class research, contributing to our understanding of greenhouse gases, ozone depletion, and urban air pollution.
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NIWA is helping young people get involved in air quality research. With funding from Unlocking Curious Minds children from Alexandra Primary School are becoming junior scientists and learning about air quality in their town.
Scientists bring in schoolchildren to help with air quality research
22 May 2018
Pupils at a Central Otago primary school are helping NIWA air quality scientists learn more about pollution in their town in a four-month project that will track where smoke comes from and where it goes over winter.
Baring Head greenhouse gases
The Baring Head Clean Air Monitoring Station, which has been in operation for more than 40 years, makes significant contributions to our global understanding of greenhouse gases, other trace gases and related species.
Profile: Wills Dobson - small town, huge horizons
5 October 2017
If it wasn't for a damaged shoulder, Wills Dobson wouldn't be launching weather balloons or fixing high-precision atmospheric measuring instruments.
Tiny air bubbles reveal new information about greenhouse gas emissions
24 August 2017
Sitting at the surface of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica, are layers of ice more than 10,000 years old. And trapped inside those layers are bubbles of ancient air – like tiny time capsules - able to tell scientists a story about what the world used to be like and how humans have changed it.
