Oceans

RV Tangaroa voyage to the Ross Sea, the ship’s 16th voyage to Antarctica and Southern Ocean.

A team of scientists spent 21 days investigating the unexplored Bounty Trough

Kaharoa Voyages KAH 2303 & 2306

Temperatures around Aotearoa New Zealand are increasing, and not just on land. Amid a changing climate, significant marine heatwaves have impacted Aotearoa over the past decade and are expected to become more frequent and intense.

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla. This is a result of about half a century of marine taxonomic and biodiversity research in the New Zealand region, the South West Pacific and the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

Scientists have returned from a 14-day expedition to one of the most unexplored parts of the ocean.

NIWA's vessels are world-class environmental monitoring and research platforms.

The Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai volcano generated the biggest atmospheric explosion recorded on Earth in more than 100 years.

You’ll be blown away by what these women in science are doing onboard RV Tangaroa in the Tasman sea!

The NIWA research ship Tangaroa was chartered by the Ministry of Primary Industries to survey the hoki fishery on the Chatham Rise during January 2022.

Since the early 2000s, NIWA has been part of the international Argo programme, which is deploying floats to measure temperature and salinity throughout the world's oceans.

Kaikōura Canyon reveals its muddy secrets