Atmospheric analysis

How may agricultural activities impact riparian vegetation around a waterway?

Explore our education and information section to find out about climate and climate change, weather, our atmosphere, estuaries and more.

Scholarships available to both Masters and undergraduate students in the fields of fisheries science and marine biology.

RV Tangaroa is New Zealand’s only ice strengthened and dynamically positioned deep-water research vessel.

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Some commonly-asked questions about tornadoes in New Zealand.

QGIS is a free, open source, desktop mapping tool, widely used in New Zealand in government, research, commercial and NGO arenas.

What are the potential sources of chemical contamination from mining activities?

Like the GMS satellite, the NOAA Series of polar orbiting satellites (operated by NOAA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) are a component of the World Weather Watch meteorological satellite network.

This national GIS ‘layer’ enables reconnaissance-scale estimation of suspended-sediment yields from New Zealand’s rivers and streams. It has been developed by NIWA in collaboration with Landcare Research.

Banded kōkopu juveniles are very good climbers and will try to escape from buckets by clinging to and wriggling up the sides.