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Overview of SHMAK
How healthy is your stream? SHMAK—the New Zealand Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit—has been designed to help you find out. -
NZ Water Citizens Database
NZ Water Citizens is a landing page for anyone in New Zealand interested in volunteer stream monitoring. -
SHMAK videos
We've developed a series of instructional videos on what SHMAK is and how to use it -
Scientists help lamprey to spread the love
Media release30 September 2019Contraptions that resemble upside-down kitchen sinks have been placed in the Waikawa River in Southland to attract a notoriously elusive native fish species. -
NZWaM - Water-age model
The purpose of the water-age model is to represent water exchange between land, surface-water bodies and aquifers, by coupling the surface water and groundwater models. -
NZWaM - Surface water flow model
This task aims to improve and enhance the accuracy of surface hydrological model discharge predictions, at both catchment and regional scales. -
NZWaM - Groundwater flow model
The role of the NZWaM groundwater model is to improve surface water model simulations, by estimating groundwater storages and groundwater fluxes. -
NZWaM - Hydro-Geofabric
The purpose of the Hydro-Geofabric task is to gather, harmonise and augment existing multi-source spatial datasets to form a framework tailored for hydrological modelling. -
NZWaM - Benchmarking
The purpose of the benchmarking task is to develop and implement a state-of-the-art operational method (that can be applied at national scale) to test hydrological models in New Zealand -
How do clouds modify the response of mountain glaciers to climate change?
Research ProjectWhile we know that glaciers are sensitive to changes in their local climate, our understanding of exactly how mountain glaciers will respond to climate change is incomplete. -
Scientists study eels by moonlight
Media release01 August 2019Under the light of the moon where the river meets the sea, NIWA researchers are planning to catch tiny fish that are all but invisible to the naked eye. -
Snow and Ice Network
Research ProjectNIWA has established a network of high elevation electronic weather stations to provide a solid basis to understand seasonal patterns and long-term changes to seasonal snow and ice in alpine regions of New Zealand.
