Coasts

This week it is International Museum week on Twitter so we thought we would bring you a story about an exciting find in our NIWA Invertebrate Collection archives.

This week we are featuring some new species of nematode worms that have recently been found at Hataitai Beach in Wellington, just two minutes away from NIWA’s Greta Point facilities.

The work of NIWA biologists has discovered 141 new marine creatures in the past three years, an important contribution to a worldwide register of the planet’s underwater life.

Niwa scientists have anchored an echosounder to the sea floor of Terra Nova Bay that could reveal the mystery of silverfish reproduction under the Antarctic ice.

Footage - mostly time lapse - from the New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015...with some random music!

NIWA’s RV Tangaroa encounters bad weather while returning to New Zealand from Antarctica.

Highlights of the New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015.

At the base of the ocean’s food chain are algae. Algae feed the krill that feed the whales.

The mottled brittle star Ophionereis fasciata, known as weki huna in Māori, lives under rocks in the low intertidal or shallow subtidal right around New Zealand.

Ice pilot Scott Laughlin is on the New Zealand - Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage to guide RV Tangaroa through the Antarctic waters.

A state-of-the-art underwater research glider has been unveiled by NIWA scientists in Wellington.

Over the last 50 years the atoll of South Tarawa, in Kiribati has experienced large increases in population.