This web camera is available thanks to the support of Waikato Regional Council.

NIWA maintains the national climate database for New Zealand, and can supply data in a variety of ways.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is charged with assessing the most up to date scientific, technical and socio-economic research on climate change.

At the age of seven, NIWA’s youngest climate scientist, Nava Fedaeff, swapped sub-arctic Siberia for balmy Auckland – and her first job was to learn to swim.

The land used to produce crops is usually flat to gently rolling so it can be tilled, sowed, and harvested.

To prepare for changes in climate, our freshwater and oceans decision-makers need information on species vulnerability to climate change.

How may forestry activities increase sediments in waterways?

We can supply a wide range of weather or climate monitoring instruments from single parameter sensors to fully equipped and installed climate stations.

Commercial eel fishery in New Zealand began in earnest in the 1960s and expanded rapidly until the early 1970s

NIWA is managed by an Executive Team reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Science and operational matters are handled by two sub-groups.

Banded kōkopu juveniles are very good climbers and will try to escape from buckets by clinging to and wriggling up the sides.

A range of different mining techniques have been developed to obtain these valuable resources