Coasts

A team of scientists have been exploring some of New Zealand’s most remote and rugged coastal zones.

A NIWA researcher has found the first evidence that female deep sea sharks store sperm as a strategy to preserve the species and possibly avoid aggressive mating encounters.

Where there’s mud, there’s scientists. NIWA divers recently got down and dirty while completing a harbour-wide dive survey in the Wellington area.

Jellyfish blooms are likely to be a common sight this summer with rising ocean temperatures one of the main causes of substantial population growths.

How do humans impact shallow marine environments?

Acoustic monitoring of sperm whales

A web application tool to explore monitoring data and model predictions related to stream and estuary eutrophication

Our team of researchers have recently returned from a voyage onboard RV Tangaroa to retrieve moorings deployed to collect sediment samples from the Kaikōura Canyon.

Small orange flecks spotted floating around in a respiration chamber at a NIWA laboratory have led to a discovery about the spawning habits of a deep-sea stony coral in New Zealand waters.

Sea spiders look similar to land spiders, but they are in their own special group.

A global survey involving 123 scientists from 58 nations raises concerns about the global status of reef sharks.

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla.