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2021 - Hikurangi margin
VoyageUnderwater Remotely Operated Vehicle helping scientists collect the latest earthquake data. -
Hotspot Watch 12 March 2021
Hotspot12 March 2021A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing significant soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought. -
Hotspot Watch 19 February 2021
Hotspot19 February 2021A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing significant soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought. -
Hotspot Watch 12 February 2021
Hotspot12 February 2021A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing significant soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought. -
A job for the buoys
Feature story11 February 2021New Zealanders and Pacific Island communities are on their way to having the most advanced tsunami monitoring system in the world. -
Hotspot Watch 22 January 2021
Hotspot22 January 2021A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing significant soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought. -
Hotspot Watch 15 January 2021
Hotspot15 January 2021A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing significant soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought. -
Kaikōura Canyon
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. -
Hotspot watch 29 October 2020
Hotspot29 October 2020A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. -
Hotspot Watch 22 October 2020
Hotspot22 October 2020A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. -
Underwater robot getting close-up look at Kaikōura Canyon
Media release08 October 2020A six-metre long orange underwater robot is flying through the Kaikōura Canyon for the next month collecting information on how the canyon has changed since the 2016 earthquake. -
New tsunami monitoring system for Pacific
Feature story22 September 2020A network of state-of-the-art tsunami buoys is being deployed from New Zealand up into the Pacific to keep communities safer.
