Past Events

New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Conference

3 July 2018 to 5 July 2018

NIWA is excited to be a Principal Sponsor of the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Conference.

This conference will be held at the new Napier War Memorial Conference Centre.

This year's theme is 'Weaving the Strands', drawing together data, disciplines and perspectives to tell the New Zealand Marine Story.The three day conference will pull together a wide range of researchers, industry leaders, consultants and advisors on all things marine related.

NZFCF Conference

31 May 2018

NIWA is supporting the 60th New Zealand Federation of Commercial Fishermen Conference as gold sponsors.

This year's event will be hosted by Port Nelson and held at the Rutherford Hotel.

The New Zealand Federation of Commercial Fishermen, "The Fed", is a national body that represents the interests of owner-operator commercial fishermen in New Zealand. The Federation represents members' interests at national, regional and local association levels, and, where appropriate, on an individual basis.

ActInSpace New Zealand

25 May 2018 to 26 May 2018

NIWA is proud to support ActInSpace New Zealand.

The event is taking place at GreenHouse in Christchurch on the 25th and 26th May.

ActInSpace is a global space hackathon, with people participating in 60 cities across five continents. This is the first time that ActInSpace is happening in New Zealand, and there are only 50 places for participants!

Teams of two to five compete against eachother, with just 24 hours to devise an innovative and realistic project for a start-up on the basis of challenges set up by CNES, ESA and Airbus and other partners.

The Unseen: sciart exhibition launch

28 March 2018 to 7 April 2018

If you're in Nelson around Easter make sure you stop by Albion Square to see the sci-art-education exhibtion, The Unseen.

15th International Symposium on Aquatic Plants

23 February 2018

NIWA is proud to be sponsoring the 15th International Symposium on Aquatic Plants.

Pacific Climate Change Conference

21 February 2018

The second Pacific Climate Change Conference will be held at Te Papa, 21- 23 February 2018.

Open Geospatial Consortium

4 December 2017 to 8 December 2017

Landcare Research is hosting the first Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee meeting to be held in New Zealand, and NIWA are proud to be Gold sponsors.