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NIWA is a Crown owned research and consultancy company, with a global reputation as experts in water and atmospheric research.
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PICTON — High-resolution mapping has produced the first ever global estimates of coastal habitat damage caused by anchoring.
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ALEXANDRA — A Central Otago scientific research station with a globally revered reputation is marking its 60th anniversary.
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New Zealand’s seven Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) have created the National Environmental Data Centre (NEDC) website to make the environmental information held by CRIs more accessible to all New Zealanders.
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The annual end-of-summer snowline survey of more than 50 South Island glaciers has revealed continued loss of snow and ice.
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WHANGAREI — This week’s torrential rains have set a new national rainfall record.
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Rare blue whales have been spotted by NIWA scientists on a research expedition in the South Taranaki Bight.
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Temperature A cool October for the south and west of the South Island, as well as Ruapehu to Hamilton, including inland Bay of Plenty.
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Scientists from around the world that work on lakes are pooling data and expertise, to better understand global changes in lake temperature.
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Potential climate change trends over the next 90 years will be identified and examined in a new, multi-million dollar research project which aims to ‘climate proof’ New Zealand.
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Spring westerlies arrived during the first few days of September, and prevailed during the first half of the month. These stormy westerly quarter winds produced very wet conditions on the West Coast of the South Island, but in contrast, a rather dry month in eastern areas of both islands. From mid-month, a pattern change saw more anticyclones than usual lie over New Zealand and to the east of the country. This combination of patterns resulted in more northwest winds than normal over New Zealand for the month of September, overall.
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This Sunday, NIWA celebrates the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol, which is hailed as the most successful international environmental protection treaty to date.
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NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa will set sail from Wellington on 21 August to map the seabed in the mid-to-outer Greater Hauraki Gulf, including the coast off Coromandel.
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Rainfall Extremely wet in Northland, Western Bay of Plenty, Waikato, Gisborne, southern Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Tasman, south Canterbury and parts of Otago. In contrast, it was unusually dry in Southland.
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Scientists are using a remote-controlled miniature speedboat to gauge New Zealand river flows.
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Scientists are poised to solve a mystery.
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Next week, in New Caledonia, representatives from NIWA and French science agency GOPS will join forces to sign a significant agreement for closer scientific collaboration in the South Pacific region.
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Rainfall: Dry over the South Island as well as in Manawatu-Wanganui and the Tararua District. Above normal autumn rainfall for Northland, north Auckland, Gisborne, parts of Hawkes Bay and the south Wairarapa coast.
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Scientists have been working on ways to find out about earthquakes that occurred before oral and written records began in New Zealand.
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National Climate Summary – May 2012: Dry over the South Island; generally sunny & cool Rainfall: Extremely dry in Canterbury, and generally dry elsewhere in the South Island.
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Drier winter likely for some Neutral conditions (neither La Niña nor El Niño) presently exist in the tropical Pacific and should persist through much of winter, but there is a likelihood of El Niño developing by spring.
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New Zealand is the first country in the world to catalogue its entire known living and fossil life.
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New Zealand’s largest research vessel Tangaroa sets off today to map, in high resolution detail, the southern Hikurangi Margin - a vital area of seabed off the east coast of New Zealand.
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Neutral conditions prevail in the tropical Pacific (no La Niña or El Niño), after the end of the 2011/12 La Niña event.
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The sea is creeping up on us, with storm surge flooding starting to occur more frequently on king tides.
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SOUTHLAND — NIWA and Environment Southland have recently returned with stunning new footage of undersea sills in Dusky and Doubtful Sounds, brimming with sea life, corals and sponges. The footage was taken from a remote-operated vehicle (ROV), and is being used to assess 20 areas within Fiordland currently designated as anchoring sites for tourist cruise ships.
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Scientists have just completed a successful trip to Stewart Island, tagging 23 great white sharks.
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How far and fast can aquatic insects travel upstream? Do the adults have to fly, or can the larvae crawl? A NIWA scientist is using obstacle courses to test the ability of fly larvae for upstream travel - a kind of flyathalon.
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AUCKLAND — Overfishing and sedimentation have reduced the number of natural beds of green-lipped mussels (Perna canaliculus), in soft sediment habitats, from many regions around New Zealand.
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Summer (December 2011- February 2012) was characterised by more highs than usual near the Chatham Islands, and more lows than normal over the north Tasman Sea.
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Flying above the New Zealand coastline on cloudless days, you can sometimes see plumes of material-laden river water, much of it containing sediment from land runoff.
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