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Sediment and agriculture
How may agricultural activities increase sediments in waterways? -
Climate stations and instruments
We can supply a wide range of weather or climate monitoring instruments from single parameter sensors to fully equipped and installed climate stations. -
Our management
NIWA is managed by an Executive Team reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Science and operational matters are handled by two sub-groups. -
Lake Ōmāpere and the Utakura River
Tuna harvested from Lake Ōmāpere and Utakura River catchment have long comprised an important fishery for tangata whenua. -
Banded kōkopu
Banded kōkopu juveniles are very good climbers and will try to escape from buckets by clinging to and wriggling up the sides. -
Mining activities
A range of different mining techniques have been developed to obtain these valuable resources -
Using trigonometric functions to model climate
Education ResourceYour task is to create a model of the data to predict the times during the year that a location would be pleasant to visit -
Al Brown's Hapuku Recipe
Al Brown is an award-winning chef, co-owner of Wellington’s Logan Brown restaurant, television presenter on Hunger for the Wild, writer, and fisherman. -
Winter 2020 – NZ’s warmest winter on record
Media release06 June 2017New Zealand has just experienced its warmest winter on record, according to official NIWA climate data. -
Tuna - identification
There are several ways to tell the three New Zealand eel species apart. -
“Very rare find” of ghost shark hatchling
Media release06 June 2017NIWA scientists have made the rare discovery of a days-old ghost shark during a recent survey off the east coast of the South Island.