On 1 July 2025, NIWA merged with GNS Science to become Earth Sciences New Zealand.

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Leigh Tait, NIWA

In November 2022 a team of NIWA divers collected data and samples beneath the Antarctic sea-ice in negative two degrees C waters. Here Jack Massuger is pictured checking out a jellyfish that floats by.