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A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

NIWA meteorologists are monitoring the potential for ex-tropical cyclones to affect New Zealand early next week.

The latest news from our Instrument Systems Team covers irrigation, water use strategy and remote soil water measurement.

One of the ocean’s most elusive critters is about to meet its match as NIWA scientists voyage south hoping to film them in action – and bring a few samples home.

NIWA’s climate scientists are working to improve seasonal climate forecasts.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

New Zealand’s answer to ocean acidification is a model of the ‘best team’ approach – when organisations pool talent and resources to find solutions to national, or global, issues.]

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

Over the past week, soil moisture levels across the North Island have mostly remained the same or increased.

By day Penny Smale is a mum to two young boys, living on a rural property in the middle of a farming district in Central Otago. By night, she leaves home, walks the short distance to what is essentially a large outbuilding in a paddock, and fires lasers into the sky.

NIWA’s research vessel Kaharoa carried out a three-week voyage to deploy the first Deep Argo floats to collect data on climate change at ocean depths of about 5700m.

The Invertebrate Collection, housed at Greta Point in Wellington, comprises about 300,000 jars or specimens but only about 100,000 are officially registered. With new specimens being discovered all the time, there is a lot of work to do.