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Hotspot Watch - 22 October
Thursday, 22 October 2020, 4:04 pm | NIWA
A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing significant soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have ... More >>
Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Outlook
Tuesday, 20 October 2020, 12:21 pm | NIWA
The NIWA and MetService assessment of named tropical cyclone (TC) activity indicates 8 to 10 named TCs could occur in the Southwest Pacific basin between November 2020 and April 2021. This seasonal outlook is for normal to below normal activity in terms ... More >>
Rare Underwater Find For NIWA Photographer
Thursday, 15 October 2020, 8:47 am | NIWA
Octopus in a salp. Photo: Crispin Middleton A NIWA marine ecologist has added his name to a very short list of people worldwide who have seen – and photographed the elusive football octopus. Not to be confused with Paul the common octopus who ... More >>
Underwater Robot Getting Close-up Look At Kaikōura Canyon
Thursday, 8 October 2020, 11:15 am | NIWA
A six-metre long orange underwater robot is flying through the Kaikōura Canyon for the next month collecting information on how the canyon has changed since the 2016 earthquake. The technology-laden AUV – or autonomous underwater vehicle ... More >>
Scientists Conducting Snapper Research Off North Island’s West Coast
Tuesday, 6 October 2020, 11:29 am | NIWA
People along the Kapiti and Wanganui coast may spot NIWA’s research vessel Kaharoa operating close to shore in the next few weeks as scientists carry out a survey of snapper, tarakihi, red gunard and John Dory. The trawl survey is the third and final ... More >>
NIWA research vessel returns home after epic non-stop voyage
Monday, 5 October 2020, 3:11 pm | NIWA
After 75 nights at sea all the temporary master of NIWA research vessel Kaharoa could think about today was getting off the ship and having a beer. More >>
Wellington Science Fair Overcomes COVID-19 Challenges
Friday, 18 September 2020, 12:23 pm | NIWA
Running a science fair in the middle of a global pandemic is no mean feat. Just ask the organisers of the Wellington Science Fair. This morning, the winners of the fair were announced after a ‘virtual’ fair was run instead of the usual in-person ... More >>
Freshwater Species Show Vulnerability To Climate Change
Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 11:10 am | NIWA
A new study has identified seven freshwater species native to Aotearoa-New Zealand that will likely be highly or very highly vulnerable to climate change. The research, carried out by Te Wai Māori Trust and NIWA, assesses the vulnerability of 10 taonga ... More >>
NIWA Scientists Make Salmon Farming Breakthrough
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 11:39 am | NIWA
NIWA scientists have made a breakthrough that may underpin expansion of the high-value New Zealand salmon farming industry. The industry is looking to expand by farming in more exposed locations, but NIWA aquaculture scientist Dr Javed Khan says such ... More >>
Winter 2020 – NZ’s Warmest Winter On Record
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 1:51 pm | NIWA
New Zealand has just experienced its warmest winter on record, according to official NIWA climate data. NIWA’s Seven Station Temperature Series, which began in 1909, shows the 2020 winter was 1.14C above average, just nudging out winter 2013 from ... More >>
Snow Has Been Low But There’s More To Come, Say Scientists
Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 4:16 pm | NIWA
NIWA’s South Island snow and ice monitoring stations have confirmed what many skiers have been talking about: winter has been dry and snow coverage has been poor. In fact several sites have recorded half their typical snow depth for this time of ... More >>
Tsunami Evacuation Zones Home To 1 In 10 New Zealanders
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 9:01 am | NIWA
NIWA scientists have completed the first national assessment of people and buildings at risk in New Zealand’s tsunami evacuation zones. The assessment, aimed at making more detailed information available to improve disaster management, has found nearly ... More >>
Student Quad Bike Invention A Winner
Thursday, 13 August 2020, 11:59 am | NIWA
An invention that could save lives has taken the top spot at the NIWA Waikato Science and Technology Fair. Lachlan Coleman, a student at St. Paul's Collegiate, invented a device called “Roll Gauge” that helps prevent rollover on vehicles like quadbikes ... More >>
Researchers On Hunt For Fish Nurseries
Friday, 7 August 2020, 8:59 am | NIWA
NIWA researchers are heading out into the Marlborough Sounds early next week to survey an area thought to be home to important juvenile fish nurseries. Separation Point, which marks the area between Golden Bay and Tasman Bay (and forms part of ... More >>
Students Do The Science On COVID Protection
Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 2:28 pm | NIWA
As the world battles a deadly pandemic, New Zealand school students have been beavering away at science fair projects researching the effectiveness of our own COVID-19 protection measures. This Friday, the NIWA Waikato Science and Technology Science Fair kicks ... More >>
Nameless nodes get new look from NIWA
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 2:07 pm | NIWA
At the bottom of the Southern Ocean, near Cape Adare in East Antarctica, lies an undersea ridge which until this month was only known by its co-ordinates: -71.2132 latitude, 172.1649 longitude. More >>
NIWA Crew Face Record Time At Sea
Tuesday, 21 July 2020, 10:01 am | NIWA
Coronavirus border restrictions mean six NIWA staff face four straight months at sea in a bid to keep an international ocean research project afloat. NIWA’s research vessel Kaharoa leaves Wellington tomorrow to deploy more than 100 remote ocean monitoring ... More >>
NIWA Mapping Seafloor Around Whakaari/White Island
Thursday, 16 July 2020, 10:49 am | NIWA
NIWA scientists are heading to the waters around Whakaari/White Island in the Bay of Plenty next week to survey changes to the seafloor. Mapped in 2005 and again in 2019, the area is known for its underwater vents and canyons. However, the eruption ... More >>
The Climate Record That Keeps Getting Broken
Friday, 3 July 2020, 2:37 pm | NIWA
Among the multitude of New Zealand climate statistics there is one record that continues to be broken month after month. Since January 2017 there has not been one month that recorded a below average nationwide temperature, according to NIWA’s seven station ... More >>
Seasonal Climate Outlook
Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 4:19 pm | NIWA
Outlook Summary Ocean temperatures in the central Pacific continued to cool during June and are slightly below average for the time of year. Oceanic La Niña conditions (47% chance) and ENSO-neutral conditions (51% chance) are about equally likely for ... More >>
