Videos
See NIWA scientists talking about their work, along with fascinating animations and underwater footage.
Andrew Tait talking about how NIWA's climate science is useful to local government and planners.
Dr Katja Riedel from Niwa explains the process of sampling air at Baring Head, near Wellington, New Zealand.
New Zealand's iconic whitebait species are disappearing from our waterways, but help could soon be at hand for the threatened giant kōkopu.
Timelapse footage of the construction of NIWA's supercomputer, Fitzroy
NIWA has one of the most powerful supercomputers in the southern hemisphere at Greta Point in Wellington.
Technology for extracting energy from wave and tidal currents is now a viable alternative to traditional power generation methods.
Funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Marsden Fund, NIWA conducts a range of experiments in Antarctica.
As knowledge about our climate system grows, NIWA climate scientists David Wratt, James Renwick, and Andrew Tait discuss the challenges and benefits of NIWA's work
NIWA is working with the fishing industry, the Bluff Oyster Management Company, and Seafood Innovations Ltd to increase understanding of the factors that drive oyster production in Foveaux Strait.
Changes in the Foveaux Strait oyster population due to the bonamia parasite have led to new challenges for NIWA scientists.
NIWA scientists are helping to improve the design of dredges used by the oyster fishing vessels in Foveaux Strait.
Scientists from DOC, NIWA, and the University of Auckland are building a unique picture of New Zealand's great white shark population.
Some think they're cute, and some say tasty, but little is known about rig sharks and their habitat.
The video represents a number of clips that have been spliced together to illustrate the abundant life associated with the muddy seabed sediments in Kaikoura Canyon at 1000m.
The CLUES Estuary Tool predicts the effects of land use changes on nutrient concentrations in estuaries through a novel combination of GIS and hydrodynamic models.