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At the speed of a bullet train

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7 July 2016
Category 5 Cyclone Winston made landfall in Fiji on 20 February, damaging and destroying thousands of homes and buildings. It left in its wake a death toll of 44 and more than 50,000 people in evacuation centres.

Voyages of discovery

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4 July 2016
NIWA’s flagship of New Zealand ocean research – Tangaroa – is the modern-day Endeavour, venturing into open oceans to conduct work that’s proving how science and commercial outcomes go hand-in-hand.

Dear diary: A pioneer of meteorology

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30 June 2016
The discovery of diaries of an English missionary living in Northland in the 1800s reveals him as New Zealand’s first meteorologist.

Even more flexibility with fisheries software CASAL II

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7 March 2016
NIWA-developed software is becoming the international standard in the assessment and management of fish stocks.

Tapping into nature’s archive of change

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29 February 2016
NIWA scientists are tapping into nature’s archives to understand our abrupt climate changes.

Coldest seawater discovered

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15 February 2016
The coldest seawater on earth could help scientists understand why Antarctic sea ice is growing in a warming world

Improving seasonal climate forecasts

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8 February 2016
NIWA’s climate scientists are working to improve seasonal climate forecasts.

Meeting the challenge of ocean acidification

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1 February 2016
New Zealand’s answer to ocean acidification is a model of the ‘best team’ approach – when organisations pool talent and resources to find solutions to national, or global, issues.]

Mussels: more, fresher, better

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27 January 2016
The seafood counter at your local supermarket has changed.

Investigating ocean acidification

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21 January 2016
The world’s oceans are acidifying as a result of the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by humanity.

Science in the coldest place on earth

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4 January 2016
Carrying out scientific experiments in the coldest part of the world is tough — even tougher if you’re miles away from Scott Base in a shipping container. But one NIWA scientist insists it’s a lot of fun.

Understanding and predicting floods and their impacts

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29 October 2015
Floods are not unusual in New Zealand, but those that hit us early this winter broke records. Why did they occur? Should we expect more? Can we predict future floods?

NIWA launches high resolution flood forecasting

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29 October 2015
There was a common factor in the floods that hit swathes of New Zealand midway through this year – they were all forecastable.

NIWA staff profile: Rob Bell, the duke of hazard

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19 October 2015
Rob Bell is happiest occupying the high ground. With a 35-year career in researching, modeling and monitoring natural hazards, such as king tides, coastal inundation, storms and tsunami, he knows that elevation from coastal margins is the only true protection from a potentially turbulent future.

The Southern Ocean - Q & A with Dr Mike Williams

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19 October 2015
The Southern Ocean is our marine backyard. Its boundary laps against the south of the South Island. To find out how the Southern Ocean affects life in New Zealand, we went to NIWA’s Dr Mike Williams, physical oceanographer.

Counting the economic benefits of environmental research

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8 September 2015
New Zealand economists and NIWA have counted the economic benefits from investing in environmental research.

Building resilience to extreme weather events in the Pacific

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2 September 2015
Cyclone Pam’s furious flight path across the South Pacific in March this year illustrated the danger natural hazards pose to life, livelihoods and infrastructural development in the region.

Science helps out in the Pacific

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13 August 2015
When Cyclone Pam slammed into Vanuatu in May the vulnerability of Pacific’s island nations to extreme weather was again laid bare.

Cleaning up - combating pollution in the Pacific

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5 August 2015
Modern development and population growth have generated severe pollution problems in some Pacific Island nations.

NIWA staff profile: Nava Fedaeff

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4 August 2015
At the age of seven, NIWA’s youngest climate scientist, Nava Fedaeff, swapped sub-arctic Siberia for balmy Auckland – and her first job was to learn to swim.

Tooth isotopes and statistical models helping scientists understand NZ sea lion decline

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3 May 2014
NIWA scientists are among a small group working to understand why New Zealand's sea lion population is declining. Using a range of methods, they're finding that the cause of the decline is varied, and includes changes in diet, bacterial infection, low pupping rates and low survival rates.

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