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

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Schematic of the ETI Tool 3 Bayesian Belief Network (BBN). Information on drivers (‘Situation’ and ‘Decision’ nodes) are input by the user and the BBN calculates states of ecosystem indicators and ETI scores (‘Intermediate’ and ‘Performance’ nodes). RPD is the Redox Potential Depth, a key eutrophication indicator.