Marine invertebrates

30 October 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima.

Sampling salps from different depths

25 October 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima.

24 October 2018: NIWA Blake Ambassadors Lana Young and Siobhan O'Connor report back

Students at Leigh School have been working with marine scientists and the 'Year of the Salps' project partners to learn how to count sea salps, understand salp life cycle phases and the importance of salps in marine ecosystems and their carbon-cycling effects on climate change.

Who is involved in the TAN1810 SalPOOP voyage?

15 March 2018
Think about a futuristic world where at night time, people use different kind of self-propelled vehicles to hover across cities, illuminating the skies with different colours and shapes, while transiting around them.

NIWA’s Marine Invertebrate Collection has welcomed two extremely rare octopus that have only just been provisionally identified.

Ocean acidification is the name given to the lowering of pH of the oceans as a result of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

Useful information and resources on New Zealand's marine flora and invertebrate fauna.

In this blog series, we feature a new critter from our expansive invertebrate collection including pictures of specimens in their unique habitat. The blogs also feature news, links and fun facts that showcase New Zealand’s fascinating marine fauna.