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Researchers produce stunning images

16 October 2021
A break in the clouds in a remote Fiordland valley and a chance encounter with a jellyfish under the Antarctic ice provide just some of the highlights from this year’s NIWA Staff Photography competition.
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Coastal flooding likely to be main driver for adaptation

12 October 2021
New NIWA-led research shows increasing flood risk is going to be what leads people to make changes to adapt to sea-level rise.
Climate
Climate change
Coasts
Flood
Oceans
Resource management
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Fabulous Fiordland showcased in new e-Guide

5 October 2021
With cascading waterfalls and native bush tumbling down mountainous terrain, Fiordland is one of the most eye-catching parts of the country. But peer beneath the waves and you'll see that Fiordland's marine invertebrate and seaweed communities are every bit as remarkable and awe-inspiring.
Biodiversity
Coasts
Marine Invertebrates
Oceans
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Volunteers needed to unlock historic weather secrets

Volunteers needed to unlock historic weather secrets

30 October 2018
NIWA climate scientists are calling for volunteers to unearth weather secrets from the past – including those recorded by members of Captain Robert Scott’s doomed trip to the South Pole in 1912.

2018 - Salp bloom

2018 - Salp bloom

23 October 2018

The RV Tangaroa headed out to the Chatham Rise on 23 October 2018 for a month long voyage that with a focus on the special role sea salps play in carbon cycling, and where they fit in marine food webs off the New Zealand coast.

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30 September 2021

Field technicians greeted by thigh-deep snow

Christchurch-based environmental monitoring technicians Alec Dempster and Pieter Havelaar got way off the beaten track this week, heading to a snow-covered Mt Potts for weather station servicing in clear blue skies and some of the deepest snow they’ve ever worked in.
28 September 2021
Media Release

Scientists, iwi investigate bringing back rock oyster industry

A project is under way to determine whether Aotearoa New Zealand’s long defunct rock oyster industry can be revived.
21 September 2021

Retired scientist completes four-decade-long bibliographic work

After 40 years of work, retired NIWA fisheries scientist Larry Paul has just published a 793-page bibliography of references to New Zealand marine fishes. Everything known and ichthyological that appears in our waters is referenced in the voluminous tome.
3 September 2021
Media Release

It’s the warmest winter on record - again

Aotearoa New Zealand has just experienced its warmest winter on record – well exceeding the previous record which was set just last year.
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