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NIWA is assisting an international research team to carry out an intensive flood dynamics study on a four-kilometre reach of the Rees River, a large braided river that flows into Lake Wakatipu at Glenorchy.
Monitoring the Antarctic environment
For over two decades NIWA has installed automatic monitoring systems in hostile environments, and probably none is more hostile than the Antarctic. In 2009 we were involved in a project with a difference - installing a climate station as part of a project to protect Scott's Hut, Cape Evans.
Simulating the effects of ocean acidification
One of the Instrument Systems team’s more complex projects recently was to help create an experimental system which accurately acidifies and measures the pH of seawater in simulated Antarctic conditions.