Oceans

NIWA aims to provide the knowledge needed for the sound environmental management of our marine resources.

  • A job for the buoys

    Feature story
    New Zealanders and Pacific Island communities are on their way to having the most advanced tsunami monitoring system in the world.
  • Message in a bottle: Glen Walker, bosun

    Glen Walker is the bosun aboard NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa currently exploring the waters around Antarctica. His reading list is exclusively sea disaster stories.
  • Message in a bottle: Sarah Seabrook

    It is interesting to watch all of the pieces of our science story come together with each day’s water sampling and our long term experiments.
  • Science update 4 from Richard O’Driscoll

    We are now four weeks into the Ross Sea Life in a Changing Climate (ReLiCC) 2021 voyage on RV Tangaroa and our time in the Ross Sea is rapidly coming to an end.
  • Message in a bottle: Stuart Mackay, Digital Producer

    Antarctica is an incredibly pristine place; we are here to do good science and leave no trace. So, you can imagine my horror as I watched my camera start to float away from the boat.
  • Message in a bottle: Alexander Hayward, marine biogeochemist

    Sitting in the library of the R.V. Tangaroa, I’m contemplating the (almost) three weeks spent at sea. From the nauseating swell of the ferocious fifties to the mornings when I’ve woken to beautiful vistas of Antarctic mountains.
  • NIWA's Sarah Searson and Jennie Mowatt

    If you want to get accurate scientific readings from the icy depths of the Ross Sea, who do you turn to?
  • Oceanic shark numbers decline amid research gaps

    Media release
    A lack of information about New Zealand oceanic shark populations is making it difficult to assess how well they are doing, says a NIWA researcher.
  • Science update 3 from Richard O’Driscoll

    Day 20 and we are now more than halfway through the Ross Sea Life in a Changing Climate (ReLiCC) 2021 voyage on RV Tangaroa.
  • Voyage update 2 from Evan Solly, Ice Pilot

    Tue 19th: At 00:00 this morning we came across an extremely large tabular iceberg. It was easily picked up on the ship’s radar but due to the foggy conditions was only visible at a range of 1.7 miles.
  • Science update 2 from Richard O’Driscoll

    Day 13 of the Ross Sea Life in a Changing Climate (ReLiCC) 2021 voyage on RV Tangaroa finds us close to Cape Adare on the tip of the Antarctic continent. We’ve had a busy and icy week.
  • How does a fish climb a ramp? Very, very cleverly…

    Feature story
    New Zealand’s native fish are doing their best to climb up ramps in a NIWA laboratory so scientists can learn how to better help them navigate our tricky waterways.