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

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    Looking to the past for a complete record of earthquakes in Poverty Bay

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    NIWA returns with undersea creatures and footage of never-before-seen undersea volcanoes and canyons

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    New Zealand: first in the world to catalogue all its species through all of time

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    New Zealand is the first country in the world to catalogue its entire known living and fossil life.
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    Vital areas of New Zealand’s seafloor to be revealed in detail for the first time

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    First-of-its-kind climate change toolbox to assess impacts on the urban environment

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    NIWA sets sail to study vulnerable deep-sea communities

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    Robot spies make new science discoveries in Fiordland’s World Heritage Park

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    Spying on our great white sharks

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    Flyathalon - NIWA gives aquatic insects an obstacle course

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    David Wratt awarded QSO for services to science

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    First-of-its-kind study finds wild mussel beds may recover

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    NIWA scientist studies the mixing of river and sea and asks: Where do river sediments go?

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