Atmospheric analysis

NIWA’s Catchment Contaminants Loads Model (C-CALM) is a spatial decision support system for planning applications. It estimates annual contaminant loads at the neighbourhood to stormwater management unit (sub-catchment) scale, from diffuse sources, for Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and particulate and dissolved zinc and copper. The estimated load is then adjusted for water treatment.

One hundred people, a Gulfstream jet, some of the best technology available and two scientists in a paddock are undertaking an experiment that will make predicting the weather a lot more accurate.

NIWA wants to recruit school students and members of the public over winter keen to take part in a citizen science initiative, and this week might be a good week to start.

Award-winning underwater photographer Richie Robinson spotted this little common euphausid shrimp Nyctiphanes half emerging from a polyp of the zoanthid at the Poor Knights Islands.

This video has been produced to highlight ocean acidification as a potential issue affecting the NZ shellfish aquaculture industry

A video has been produced to show how NIWA and a range of partners are collaborating to understand global ocean acidification and how increasing ocean acidity is affecting shellfish and the aquaculture industry.

NIWA scientists are this month launching some cutting-edge technology capable of finding out what's going on at the bottom of the ocean.

Prime Minister John Key and Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce had a surprise meeting at NIWA's Fieldays stand today.

NIWA has a message for opening day visitors to the rural sector’s biggest event of the year: go prepared.