Coasts

Work to protect New Zealand waters from an increasing number of invasive biological pests has received a funding boost to fight their spread.

Estuaries and coasts provide a wide range of benefits to New Zealanders – “ecosystem services”. However, we still don’t know enough about these ecosystem services – a challenge NIWA and other scientists are tackling with a new technique.

Despite our growing understanding of the role of Antarctica in driving global climate regimes and regional patterns of marine diversity, the distribution and connectivity among deep-sea species across the Southern Ocean remain poorly known.

The yellow octopus is large and clearly abundant, with about one million being eaten a year by sea lions in the Auckland Islands alone

This rare isopod genus Anuropus, Beddard, 1886 was collected in a mesopelagic trawl from the Chatham Rise.

The Invertebrate Collection, housed at Greta Point in Wellington, comprises about 300,000 jars or specimens but only about 100,000 are officially registered. With new specimens being discovered all the time, there is a lot of work to do.

This week’s critter is an unknown species of an unusual order of sea urchins – the Holasteroida.

Looking for something tasty on your beach for holiday dinner this summer? NIWA scientists have the lowdown on some of the most mouth-watering fish and seafood that are yours for the taking.

It was only about a year and a half ago that NIWA staff came back from a research voyage to the Kermadec Trench led by their colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

The mud shrimp species Upogebia hirtifrons (White, 1847) is a member of the large and widespread Upogebiidae family.

The squid genus Histioteuthis is commonly known as the violet or cock-eyed squid.