Coasts

This delicate little gorgonian coral was collected from around 1300 metres depth from the Louisville seamount chain east of New Zealand.

If this is looking familiar, you may have read the NIWA press release or one of the many news sites that featured the exciting discovery of this living fossil.

This week we introduce to you a rare species of squid.

Sea pens are generally found in deep sea soft sediment habitats (rarely are they encountered by divers).

Award-winning underwater photographer Richie Robinson spotted this little common euphausid shrimp Nyctiphanes half emerging from a polyp of the zoanthid at the Poor Knights Islands.

This video has been produced to highlight ocean acidification as a potential issue affecting the NZ shellfish aquaculture industry

NIWA scientists are this month launching some cutting-edge technology capable of finding out what's going on at the bottom of the ocean.

A marine animal thought to have been extinct for four million years has been found alive and well and living near Picton.

NIWA scientists are among a small group working to understand why New Zealand's sea lion population is declining. Using a range of methods, they're finding that the cause of the decline is varied, and includes changes in diet, bacterial infection, low pupping rates and low survival rates.

In late 2013, a group of scientists from NIWA travelled to Antarctica to perform a series of experiments under the sea ice to look at how climate change and ocean acidification could affect this fragile ecosytem.

NIWA staff involved with the Louisville Seamount Chain voyage have wide ranging skills and expertise.