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.

Scholarships available to both Masters and undergraduate students in the fields of fisheries science and marine biology.

These climate maps are updated daily and are based on data from our National Climate Database.

Smelt have a distinctly forked tail and a strong cucumber smell.

El Niño accounts for less than 25 percent of the year-to year variance in seasonal rainfall and temperature at most locations in New Zealand.

Damming water for urban use, hydro-electric power generation, irrigation, and other industrial and commercial uses.

Find out how you can have access to Earth Science NZ's research vessels to carry out marine research voyages.

What are the potential sources of chemical contaminants in wastewaters?

Developing probabilistic scenarios of expected future regional climate changes.

The River Environment Classification (REC) is a database of catchment spatial attributes, summarised for every segment in New Zealand's network of rivers.

Shellfish gathering and farming take place in marine and freshwater environments.