Atmospheric analysis

A bright pink sea star and an orange sea spider are among the strange creatures of the Antarctic sea floor featured on new commemorative stamps.

The seafloor of the Ross Sea region is covered in ice for much of the year, but many benthic sea creatures live and thrive there.

At a rough count, 700 million litres of rain runs off the nation’s roads every year. That’s enough water to fill almost 300 Olympic-sized pools.

Iwi has joined forces with councils and NIWA to restore an estuarine ecosystem to its former health.

NIWA is working alongside Māori to develop gateways to science and technology partnerships that are helping grow the Māori economy.

An interactive guide to the starfish of the Ross Sea

The main output of this voyage is providing data and fundamental base maps for future regional prospectivity surveys, tectonic plate reconstructions, and general understanding of the architecture of the Kermadec backarc.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

We have reached the end of our sampling program up in the Kermadecs and we’re on our way home

Warm nor’westers, or foehn winds, are forecast for parts of the eastern South Island tomorrow and Wednesday, before spreading to the east of the North Island from Wednesday into Thursday.

For the last couple of days we have been sampling near L’Esperance Rock.

The Kermadec Expedition team are currently trying to answer this question with the help of our DTIS tool (deepwater camera system), but it is not always smooth sailing at the bottom of the ocean...