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New web portal for discovery of NIWA meta-information

A new information portal developed by NIWA allows anyone to find details on a growing range of environmental metadata held in our station (SIMS) and data catalogues (DC).

NIWA climate change scientists honoured in Prime Minister’s top science prizes

A team of scientists from NIWA and the University of Otago has won the top 2011 Prime Minister's Science Prize for their research into guiding the world's response to climate change.

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Summer Series 5: Is it a fish, is it a bird? …It’s an eagle ray!
24 January 2012
They fly like birds under water and create strange pits in the sand. Eagle rays can be seen around New Zealand's coast in the summer months, when they come in to breed. Like their larger cousins, the longtail and shorttail stingrays, they have a...
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Summer Series 4: Beautiful sea shells on the sea shore
17 January 2012
When you leave the beach this summer, the memory of a great holiday can be savoured with a sea shell. Lift it up to your ear, and you hear the roar of the sea once more.
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