Atmospheric analysis

Online statistics tools, including a detection calculator, a kappa calculator and a Lin's concordance calculator are now accessible as Python 3.x code stored in Github.

Ocean chemistry is changing rapidly due to the influx of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, largely from human activities including the combustion of fossil fuels.

Among the colour and spectacle of this week's Wairarapa Balloon Fiesta will be a small but crucial flying contraption known as a helikite.

Rarely seen fish caught in the Kermadec Trench have enabled scientists to better understand just how deep fish can survive in the ocean.

In this post we look at the tools we are using to undertake our survey of the seamounts on our voyage to the Louisville Seamount Chain.

The NIWA Deep Towed Imaging System (DTIS) enables us to capture video and still images of sea life on the ocean floor.

There are a number of documents that participants may wish to be familiar with prior to the workshop.

Scientists will be working off the east coast of the South Island next week investigating the potential for a landslide tsunami in the head of the Kaikoura Canyon.

NIWA's research vessel Tangaroa left Wellington on 4 February to survey the seafloor environment of the Louisville Seamount Chain, which are large undersea mountains east of New Zealand.

A series of on-board blog posts written by the NIWA scientists aboard the RV Tangaroa as it surveys the Louisville Seamount Chain, large undersea mountains east of New Zealand.

Sightings of the whales, the world's largest animal, are rare and they remain one of the planet's most elusive creatures. They were intensively hunted during the whaling era in the Southern Hemisphere, dramatically reducing their numbers.

People fishing in the Bay of Islands are being asked to keep a look out for a young hammerhead shark, nicknamed Orokawa.