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    TAN2502 voyage update – 8 February 2025

    Voyage
    The latest update from TAN2502 Ross Sea RV Tangaroa “ACTUATE” Voyage
    Antarctica
    Oceans
    Vessels

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    TAN2502 voyage update – 4 February 2025

    The latest update from TAN2502 Ross Sea RV Tangaroa “ACTUATE” Voyage
    Antarctica
    Vessels
    Voyages

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    TAN2502 voyage update – 31 January 2025

    Voyage
    The latest update from TAN2502 Ross Sea RV Tangaroa “ACTUATE” Voyage
    Antarctica
    Oceans
    Voyages

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    TAN2502 voyage update – 28 January 2025

    The latest update from TAN2502 Ross Sea RV Tangaroa “ACTUATE” Voyage
    Antarctica
    Vessels
    Voyages

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    TAN2502 voyage update - 24 January 2025

    The latest update from TAN2502 Ross Sea RV Tangaroa “ACTUATE” Voyage
    Antarctica
    Coasts and Oceans
    Oceans

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    One of the first icebergs spotted

    TAN2502 voyage update - 20 January 2025

    The latest update from TAN2502 Ross Sea RV Tangaroa “ACTUATE” Voyage

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    TAN2502 voyage update - 17 January 2025

    The latest update from TAN2502 Ross Sea RV Tangaroa “ACTUATE” Voyage
    Antarctica

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    Ross Sea “ACTUATE” Voyage 2025

    RV Tangaroa voyage to the Ross Sea, the ship’s 16th voyage to Antarctica and Southern Ocean.
    Antarctica
    Oceans

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    Antarctica likely a carbon storage powerhouse

    Media release
    20 May 2024
    Antarctica is probably storing much more carbon than previously thought, according to NIWA.
    Antarctica

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    David McCaw reunited with his RNZ security card 21 years after it was lost

    The curious case of a lost security card

    Media release
    24 April 2024
    In 2016, NIWA technician Rod Budd is doing a routine dive under the Antarctic ice at Cape Evans, studying the creatures that live there.
    Antarctica

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    Fascinating finds from NIWA’s annual squid survey

    Media release
    31 July 2023
    Earlier this month, NIWA welcomed the Auckland University of Technology ‘Squid Squad’ – a team of scientists from the Lab for Cephalopod Ecology and Systematics – to unbox and categorise cephalopod species taken from voyages around the country.
    Oceans

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    Antarctica

    Antarctica and the climate

    Education Resource
    This icy continent plays a big part in our global climate and, in turn, is directly affected by changes to the global climate – making Antarctica and the climate inextricably linked.
    Climate and weather
    Climate change