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Climate change scenarios for New Zealand
Research ProjectProjections of how climate change is likely to affect New Zealand. -
Cropping activities
The land used to produce crops is usually flat to gently rolling so it can be tilled, sowed, and harvested. -
Sediment and forestry
How may forestry activities increase sediments in waterways? -
Climate stations and instruments
We can supply a wide range of weather or climate monitoring instruments from single parameter sensors to fully equipped and installed climate stations. -
Tuna - commercial fisheries
Commercial eel fishery in New Zealand began in earnest in the 1960s and expanded rapidly until the early 1970s -
Our management
NIWA is managed by an Executive Team reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Science and operational matters are handled by two sub-groups. -
Banded kōkopu
Banded kōkopu juveniles are very good climbers and will try to escape from buckets by clinging to and wriggling up the sides. -
Mining activities
A range of different mining techniques have been developed to obtain these valuable resources -
Using trigonometric functions to model climate
Education ResourceYour task is to create a model of the data to predict the times during the year that a location would be pleasant to visit -
Al Brown's Hapuku Recipe
Al Brown is an award-winning chef, co-owner of Wellington’s Logan Brown restaurant, television presenter on Hunger for the Wild, writer, and fisherman. -
Biological limitations
Identifying biological factors that may be limiting fish numbers requires sampling to ensure that key invertebrate prey species are not scarce and that pest fish, especially predators, are not abundant.