Atmospheric analysis

The toxic grey side-gilled seaslug.

For almost a century the Mason family of Feilding have been keeping a closer eye on the weather than most people. But now, at 94, Alan Mason is looking for a successor.

NIWA conducts a wide range of paleoclimate research to help us define and understand what the climate was doing before we had instruments to record it.

Long-term photographic documentation of Southern Alps glacier responses to climate variability and change.

New Zealand climate research in Climate Present and Past focuses on trends, extremes, and variability of rainfall, temperature and atmospheric circulation.

Key people involved in Climate Present & Past, including our external research partners.

Outputs and accomplishments partly or fully funded under the Climate Present and Past project in recent years.

NIWA's Climate Science Centre has released a Wellington regional climatology - "The Climate and Weather of Wellington".

This week we look at Calliactis polypus anemone. Calliactis are commonly a symbiont living on the shells of hermit crabs, but it is known to attach to other objects, such as pumice.

A team of scientists led by Dr Joshu Mountjoy have been investigating an area of the sea floor near Gisborne. Gas flares were identified for the first time in 2014, and the team has now returned aboard RV Tangaroa to capture more data and video footage of the area.

An overview of historical climate work completed under Climate Present and Past project.

Exploring the frontier of New Zealand oceanographic research is the launch mission for Manaia, NIWA’s newly named underwater glider.