Oceans

We are currently steaming out towards our survey area, the Louisville Seamount Chain, which is about 1500 km from Wellington.

A basket star was the first reported animal trawled up from the deep sea back in the early 1800s so they have a spot in the history books of deep ocean exploration.

NIWA collects wave data, develops and verifies wave forecasting systems, and is developing and producing wave projections.

An interactive guide to the intertidal sponges of New Zealand.

NIWA puts a lot of things in the ocean—instruments tied to moorings, floats that dive up and down measuring what’s going on in the water, and video cameras that monitor fish.

Pollen from New Zealand pine forests has been shown to travel more than 1500km through wind and ocean currents, and sink thousands of metres into the ocean to reach some of the world’s deepest ecosystems.

The sounds of whales and dolphins rarely seen in New Zealand waters have been recorded by a NIWA scientist in a pioneering underwater sound project.

This week we feature a community of critters living on the Chatham Rise sea floor.

In this critter "quill" is not part of a feather but rather a unique tube built by a polychaete worm that lives in it.