Atmosphere news

Summer is for scientific fieldwork. Three NIWA scientists are heading into the wild blue yonder, some with fancy technology and others with a coffee cup and a bag of party balloons.

The burning question of winter is attracting international air quality scientists to Wellington later this month to design a large scale joint research programme.

With winter fast approaching, NIWA’s air quality scientists are returning to Rangiora for the second stage of a research project that is set to revolutionise how communities can measure and control pollution.

A long-standing international scientific partnership is being celebrated in Central Otago today.

By day Penny Smale is a mum to two young boys, living on a rural property in the middle of a farming district in Central Otago. By night, she leaves home, walks the short distance to what is essentially a large outbuilding in a paddock, and fires lasers into the sky.

I have just completed the first week of my Blake NIWA Ambassadorship down in Lauder.

They may not be old enough to start school yet, but that isn’t stopping children in South Auckland getting to grips with science.

New Zealand scientists are part of an international team that has documented duelling ocean and atmospheric heat transport during periods of abrupt climate change.