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

Under the microscope but a world away

Dave Allen
NIWA Marine Ecology Technician Caroline Chin using a new ‘real-time’ web-enabled microscope, giving taxonomists or other interested parties immediate, remote access to images of a specimen via the internet. The virtual microscope consists of a specialised camera that is mounted onto a laboratory microscope, thereby giving it the ability to ‘stream’ live images to a website via a desktop console.