Atmospheric analysis

A versatile inshore vessel, RV Ikatere is equipped with high-precision multibeam and sub-bottom profiler transducers for surveying and mapping the seabed.

New Zealand has low-lying coastal areas that are vulnerable to inundation (flooding) by the sea.

To get the most benefit from a fish stock in the long term, we need to maximise our yield without damaging the fish population we rely on.

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When soils erode, sediments are washed into waterways.

El Niño accounts for less than 25 percent of the year-to year variance in seasonal rainfall and temperature at most locations in New Zealand, however its effects can be significant.

Tau kōura is a traditional Māori fishing method commonly used to harvest kōura or freshwater crayfish in areas where they are abundant.

Atlantis is a 3D, spatially-explicit, trophodynamic ecosystem model that integrates biology, physics, chemistry and human impacts to provide a synoptic view of marine ecosystem function.

We sponsor regional science and technology fairs around New Zealand and support learning programmes that bring science into the classroom.

Once eels become migrants (also known as tuna heke or tuna whakaheke) they stop feeding, and progressively develop the external features that clearly distinguish them from 'feeders'.

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