Coasts

Storm-tide red-alert days 2024

A web-based taxonomic resource tool has been developed to improve the accuracy and consistency in soft sediment estuarine and coastal benthic intertidal and shallow subtidal macroinvertebrate identification across New Zealand.

Annual tide envelopes

NIWA's Tide forecaster provides tidal data for any point in New Zealand.

NIWA posters, as well as bathymetry, sediment, and circulation charts. 

Cam-Era is a network of computer-controlled cameras that monitor the New Zealand environment for research and resource management. These are also useful for surfers and swimmers.

Online decision-support web mapping tools for informing the management of cumulative effects in the coastal and marine environment.

New research shows that in some cases, lifting houses may be a cost-effective way to reduce intermittent flooding risk.

Observations of a Pacific atoll mangrove forest by a NIWA-led research team suggests mangrove systems on oceanic atolls may lose the race to keep pace with sea-level rise.

A new study is doing a deep dive into whether mussel farms could help reduce nitrogen in New Zealand waters.

Long-term protection of Otago’s coastal habitats took a step closer to reality after more than 100 marine Significant Ecological Areas (SEA) were identified as part of a research project led by NIWA.