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

  • Lauder leader's ozone work feted

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    NIWA's Dr Richard Querel's alma mater, University of Lethbridge in Alberta, has noted his ozone research on its website.
  • World congress confirms Lauder’s expertise

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    The World Meteorological Organisation Congress has confirmed NIWA's Lauder atmospheric research station as one of Earth's leading providers of upper-air data critical for measuring climate change.
  • NIWA, DOC, Victoria University and LINZ collaborate to map Kapiti’s submarine landscape

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    A team of marine geoscientists from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research begins mapping the submarine landscape of Kapiti Island and Coast on Friday, 5 June.
  • Lauder technician rediscovers historic data

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    A climate scientist at NIWA’s Lauder Station research centre in Central Otago has stumbled across the oldest known mid-infrared spectra – scientific readings taken 30 years ago on 29 May 1985.
  • Farmers wanted to help NIWA

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    The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research has developed new tools that can help farmers decide when to irrigate or fertilise. But it needs farmers to test out the tools to ensure they are as practical and easy to use as possible.
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    Ozone depletion far greater without Montreal Protocol, study shows

    Media release
    A study out today shows the Antarctic Ozone Hole would be 40 per cent larger than it is today without controls introduced by the Montreal Protocol.
  • NIWA calls on citizen scientists for grey mullet survey

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    New Zealand’s leading freshwater and estuarine research body is harnessing the national curiosity about ecology to find out more about grey mullet.
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    Weather watchers provide invaluable service

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    For almost a century the Mason family of Feilding have been keeping a closer eye on the weather than most people. But now, at 94, Alan Mason is looking for a successor.
  • Wellington regional climatology publication released

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    NIWA's Climate Science Centre has released a Wellington regional climatology - "The Climate and Weather of Wellington".
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    NIWA’s glider launched into service for sea science

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    Exploring the frontier of New Zealand oceanographic research is the launch mission for Manaia, NIWA’s newly named underwater glider.
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    NIWA studies spectacular seabed gas flares

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    A team of scientists aboard NIWA’s deepwater research vessel Tangaroa returned to Wellington with new knowledge about methane ‘leaking’ into the atmosphere.
  • Climate science may help predict mussel production

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    Sea temperatures influence mussel production, but the link between the two is not always clear. Sea temperatures have been rising globally with climate change, but temperatures also fluctuate with shorter-term climate variability, along with other factors that influence food supply for the mussels.