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

Early Career Science Award winner - Andrew Lorrey, 2012

Early Career Science Award winner: Andrew Lorrey, Climate Scientist, Auckland. Andrew received the Early Career Science Excellence Award in recognition of two years of outstanding NIWA science on climate issues - including work on eight peer-reviewed papers and $1 million in Marsden Fund projects, and for being awarded the Meteorological Society’s Edward Kidson Medal for research he conducted on climate regime classification. Credit: Dave Allen, NIWA