Up-to-date drought indicator maps are shown here.

If you're collecting sea shells at the beach this summer and wondering what they are, NIWA is here to help.

The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New Zealand based on a standardised climate index.

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

Digital copies of all our annual reports published since 2011.

Your 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 is an award-winning chef, co-owner of Wellington’s Logan Brown restaurant, television presenter on Hunger for the Wild, writer, and fisherman.

Has a receding lower jaw and black spots behind the head.

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.