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Voyage Update 8. Phytoplankton diversity and production
Phytoplankton: tiny cells with a big job -
Voyage Update 9: Protistan diversity
During the voyage, we collected planktonic protist cells for which DNA will be sequenced for taxonomic identification, but also to understand their physiology through the daily diurnal vertical migration (diel) cycle. -
The eel earbone detective
Feature story09 January 2019As a young child growing up on an Irish farm, one of Eimear Egan’s chores was to regularly clean out the well from where her family drew its drinking water. In the well lived a large eel that, no matter how many times it was shifted, just kept coming back. -
Can a leopard seal change its spots?
Feature story03 January 2019A leopard seal, who has made the balmy waters around Auckland home, is prompting a NIWA scientist to campaign for her to be made a New Zealand citizen. -
NIWA Blake Ambassadors Vlog 3: It's bongo time!
18 Nov 2018. NIWA Blake Ambassador—Lana Young—explains how bongo nets are deployed to collect plankton around the clock on board the RV Tangaroa. -
Voyage Update 7: Bongo-Bongo – and we hit 100!
16 November 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima. -
Voyage Update 6: Thetys vagina – Giant of the salps and colossal pooper
13 November 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima. -
Voyage Update 5: Salp parasites and micropredators
10 November 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima. -
Voyage Update 4: Phytoplankton–the base of the food chain!
8 November 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima. -
NIWA Blake Ambassadors Vlog 2: Fishing... for water!
