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

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Dave Allen

Dr Krista Hupman with a leopard seal near Wellington. Photo identification helps us get a better understanding of abundance and migration patterns. Currently, images of individual animals (e.g., dolphins, whales, leopard seals) have to be painstakingly sorted and matched by eye – in the coming years a fully computer-automated system will be able to do this work in a fraction of the time.