Our analytical facility generates isotope data which supports numerous research areas, which link into the following National Centres within NIWA: Aquaculture; Climate, Atmosphere & Hazards; Coasts and Oceans; Fisheries; Freshwater & Estuaries.
- Atmospheric concentrations, emissions and chemistry
- Trace gas emissions & processes
- Climate Change
- Natural Hazards
- Hydrology
- Biogeochemistry
- Paleoclimate
- Palaeoceanography
- Paleoecology
- Ecology (Marine/Terrestrial/Riverine/Lake - trophic studies, animal migration, ecosystem form and function)
- Fisheries management
- Aquaculture
- Conservation & restoration
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Nutrient chemistry, cycling and budgets
- Pollution studies (source apportionment- atmospheric, nutrient, sediment, chemical and water tracking)
- Provenance and authentication (forensics, product authentication)
- Energetics
- Animal nutrition and physiology
- Plant physiology
- Soil processes
- Biological and physical rate process measurements (e.g. primary productivity, nitrogen fixation, nutrient uptake)
- Historical changes in environment (chronological sampling of archived samples, or micro-sampling of material with chronological growth structure – e.g. tree rings, fish otoliths, animal teeth)