Building a publicly-available database from the results of a marine mapping survey of the Bay of Islands provides us with a stocktake of the local aquatic resource, in turn giving us valuable information on what areas we can better manage for the future.
Satellite images can be used to measure phytoplankton biomass in the ocean around New Zealand in order to understand ocean ecosystems, fish populations and greenhouse gas absorbtion.
The first comprehensive fisheries survey in the Arabian Sea off Oman for 18 years. Providing Oman’s Ministry of Fisheries Wealth with robust data for sustainable fisheries management.
This unique project is the first systematic attempt to quantify and map environmental values of New Zealand's coastal marine ecosystem. It uses existing data sources to create a series of spatially explicit data layers. The information has applications in biosecurity, conservation, and coastal management.
NIWA participates in the Total Carbon Column Observing Network, a ground-based observing network dedicated to making precise and accurate measurements of greenhouse gas concentrations in different parts of the atmosphere.
UPTECH is a world-leading observational study currently underway in SE Queensland. UPTECH-NZ is one of several related projects around the world which seek to investigate the same basic questions in a co-ordinated way and ensure the international validity of UPTECH’s findings.
CFCs have damaged the ozone layer and led to higher UV levels and increased health risks. Our role is to understand the causes and effects of ozone depletion, to inform the public of the risk.
NIWA is conducting a five–year study to map changes in the distribution of plankton species in surface waters between New Zealand and the Ross Sea. Officially known as Continuous Plankton Recorder Time Series, this study is part of a Ministry of Fisheries marine biodiversity programme.
NIWA has recently created synthetic, multi-year, 10-minute wind datasets at 15 wind farm sites across New Zealand. These will be used by the Electricity Commission to model the impact of wind farms on the national grid.
