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Read about the important science being undertaken at NIWA, and how it affects New Zealanders

  • Summer Series week 5: Life's a beach

    Media release
    Six scientists reveal their favourite beaches but also observe how they’re changing.
  • Hotspot Watch for 12 January 2017

    Hotspot
    An update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
  • Summer Series week 4: Scientist keeps cool head on the ice

    Media release
    Top of Natalie Robinson’s to-do list right now is to work out exactly what she’s brought back from Antarctica.
  • NIWA's Annual Climate Summary Media Conference

    Event
    NIWA climate scientists present the NIWA 2016 Annual Climate Summary.
  • Hotspot Watch for 5 January 2017

    Hotspot
    An update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
  • Summer Series week 3: Above and beyond, a voyage in the pacific

    Feature story
    A NIWA technician spends four days and three nights on a crowded boat heading to one of the most remote places in the Pacific to help install a weather station. Conditions are so arduous he decides to quit his job - but how do you do that in the middle of the ocean?
  • Summer Series week 2: Scientists set up offices in the great outdoors

    Media release
    Summer is for scientific fieldwork. Three NIWA scientists are heading into the wild blue yonder, some with fancy technology and others with a coffee cup and a bag of party balloons.
  • Hotspot Watch for 21 December

    Hotspot
    An update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
  • Summer Series week 1: NIWA's year of science

    Media release
    A year is a short time in science but a lot happened in 2016. NIWA highlights its top scientific endeavours of the past 12 months.
  • Bountiful Bryozoans

    News article
    A new fully illustrated electronic identification guide, Bountiful Bryozoans, has just been released to help people identify this group of marine creatures in the wild.
  • Citizen science monitoring of water a win-win, research shows

    Media release
    New research has revealed that citizen science monitoring of water is a win-win for scientists and volunteers—one gains access to new data, and the other the skills and confidence to become involved in discussions over what is happening to their streams.
  • Hotspot Watch for 8 December 2016

    Hotspot
    A weekly update describing soil moisture anomalies across the country.