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Taxonomy symposium honours leading scientist
News article27 April 2016Taxonomy is one of New Zealand’s most important sciences but its impact is often not widely known nor understood. -
Critter of the Week: Solanderia – the tree hydroid
Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846, which is commonly known as the tree hydroid or sea fan hydroid, is a genus of athecate hydrozoan. -
Critter of the Week: Brisinga chathamica
Brisingida are an order of deep-sea dwelling sea stars that look more like brittle stars with a small disk that is distinctly set off from their 13-15 arms. -
Critter of the Week: Flabellum (the dentures of the sea)
This fan-shaped beauty is large and solitary, with a widespread distribution throughout New Zealand and mainly lives on soft substrate in a broad range of depths (0 – 3200 metres). -
Critter of the Week: Corallimorphus niwa
Corallimorpharia are a group of cnidarians morphologically intermediate between sea anemones and stony corals. Like sea anemones (Actiniaria), they lack a calcareous skeleton but their internal anatomy and nematocysts are similar to stony corals (Scleractinia). In fact, phylogenetic studies have shown that Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia are closely related. -
Lake Tekapo - a tsunami hazard?
NIWA scientists scan Lake Tekapo with the aim of finding out if submarine landslides can create a tsunami hazard for the Lake Tekapo township and hydropower infrastructure. -
New Zealand sea lion mystery
The main breeding population of NZ sea lions at the Auckland Islands has declined by approximately 50% since the late 1990s. -
Critter of the week: Ophiactis abyssicola
Ophiactis abyssicola (Sars, 1861) is a very common deep sea species of brittlestar distributed throughout New Zealand waters and in temperate regions in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. -
Critter of the Week: Gibberula ficula - rice snails
Gibberula ficula (Murdoch & Suter, 1906) are micro snails in the family Cystiscidae. -
CARIM (Coastal Acidification: Rate, Impacts & Management)
Research ProjectA NIWA-led project to tackle coastal acidification in New Zealand. -
When the river meets the sea, scientists will be watching
News article02 March 2016Scientists are taking some high-tech equipment to Fiordland next week to find out more about what happens when a river meets the ocean. -
Critter of the Week: Amphinome rostrata - marine bristle worm
Amphinome rostrata (Pallas, 1766), in the polychaete family Amphinomidae, can be found living amongst goose barnacles (species of Lepas) on drift objects in tropical oceans worldwide.