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Date: September 02, 2010
NIWA is looking at the long-term effects of motorways and wood smoke on air quality. Scientists are assessing the impacts of Auckland’s southern motorway on air quality in a surrounding neighbourhood. They are doing this to understand more about the health effects of air pollution.
Date: August 20, 2010
‘Whitebait’ tagged as part of a unique experiment have turned up. Earlier this year the giant kōkopu released into the Nukumea Stream in Orewa had disappeared, but when scientists returned in June the fish were back!
Date: August 19, 2010
Highly detailed maps of New Zealand’s seabed are now freely available on NIWA’s website.
Date: August 16, 2010
The aptly named ‘Rumble III’ undersea volcano on the Kermadec Ridge, 200 km northeast of Auckland, has dropped in height by 120 metres in the last couple of years, pioneering research by NIWA has shown.
Date: July 21, 2010
One of the most powerful supercomputers of its kind has been switched on at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA).
Date: July 20, 2010
There are many lines of evidence showing that NZ has warmed during the past century. These include the "seven station" temperature series, the "eleven station" temperature series, and information from ship measurements of sea-surface temperatures and marine night-time air temperatures over the oceans around NZ.
Date: July 16, 2010
Get clicking and get your photos in. The deadline for the New Zealand biodiversity photo competition is 30th July 2010.
Date: July 15, 2010
The scallop season opens today for most of New Zealand, except for Coromandel and Northland where the season starts on 1 September, and NIWA scientists are calling for help from scallop fishers to return tagged scallops.
Date: July 14, 2010
The 2010 winner of the prestigious New Zealand Marine Science Award is NIWA principal scientist, Dr Simon Thrush, in recognition of his enormous contribution to estuarine and coastal studies not only in New Zealand but internationally.
Date: July 12, 2010
NIWA scientists have captured never seen before footage of schools of orange roughy swimming above a seamount nearly a kilometre below the ocean surface.
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