NIWA is sponsoring the 50th Anniversary NZ Hydrological Society conference.

The conference will be held at Te Papa in Wellington, for more information see the conference website

NIWA is sponsoring Geosciences 2011, the Geoscience Society of New Zealand's annual conference.

This year's conference is being held in Nelson and will cover a broad range of geological and geophysical research being undertaken in New Zealand.

For further information see the conference website

The 16th WMO/IAEA Meeting on Carbon Dioxide, Other Greenhouse Gases, and Related Measurement Techniques (GGMT) 

Provisional session topics are:

NIWA is sponsoring the Health Related Water Microbiology workshop.

The workshop will be held in Rotorua and will cover topics including:

Water pollution and diseases, microbial source tracking, catchment protection, biofilm studies, water and sanitation in developing country, climate change and water quality, recreational water and health, epidemiology of waterborne diseases, microbial risk assessment, microbial quality of shellfish growing areas, applications of nanotechnology, water and energy and, zoonoses. 

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NIWA is sponsoring the Association of Women in the Sciences (AWIS) conference being held in Auckland.

For more information about the conference see AWIS conference website

A celebration will be held at the Central Stories Museum in Alexandra followed by a field trip to the NIWA Lauder site on the 29th.

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For more information please contact:
Gordon Keys JGKeys@xtra.co.nz
or Richard McKenzie R.Mckenzie@niwa.co.nz 

Year after year the Havelock Mussel Festival is a huge success, drawing crowds of up to 6000 people.

Stalls offer food, wine and beer, craft and industry displays, cooking demo's, top kiwi entertainment and fun Mussel related competitions including the :
Kono NZ Mussel Opening Competition, Mussel Munch and Sealord Mussel Hustle
 
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The conference will be held in Wellington, NZ and include six special sessions each with a keynote address:
Extreme weather in the Australasian region – from floods to droughts
Impact and meteorology of the main climate drivers (ENSO, SAM, Monsoon)
Using high resolution models to understand local meteorology
Oceanography of the Australasian region
Climate change in the Australasian region
Impacts of natural catastrophes in the Australasian region
However papers on any topic related to the Atmospheric Sciences (including composition) and Oceanography of the Australasian region will be co

This year’s conference theme “Water: The Blue Gold” touches on issues such as the value of water, managing the modern day gold rush for water allocation and changing water uses. 
For more information please see: http://www.hydrologynz.org.nz/nzhs_symposia.php

In November this year, the New Zealand Geothermal Workshop and the Geoscience Society of New Zealand are holding a joint conference in Auckland showcasing the latest and best in New Zealand geoscience research, geothermal science, and geothermal engineering. The meeting will include an overlap day with the annual meeting of the New Zealand branch of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, AusIMM.
 
The theme for the meeting is "Research · Economy · Frontiers"
 
More information available at: http://www.geonz2010.co.nz