Atmospheric analysis

Find out about the biology of the Antarctic toothfish.

Find out more about fisheries in the Southern Ocean, New Zealand's role, and fisheries management.

NIWA’s Antarctic fisheries research is allowing us to investigate possible effects of the longline Antarctic toothfish fishery on the toothfish population and on the local ecosystem.

NIWA has just deployed six acoustic moorings to eavesdrop on mysterious noise makers in the Cook Strait, New Zealand.

Dr. Michelle Kelly of NIWA and Dr. Paco Cárdenas of Uppsala University, have just published a paper describing an amazing sponge which was found on a NIWA cruise to the Colville Ridge, north-east of New Zealand.

An important scientific milestone was reached on a windswept point at the bottom of the North Island this week.

The sounds made by whales and dolphins as they pass through New Zealand’s Cook Strait are to be recorded for the first time through a research project being undertaken by a NIWA scientist.

Anyone can participate, and all you need is access to the sea, a smartphone or a camera and computer.

Like other members of the family Asteriidae, Allostichaster is fissiparous.

As we have mentioned many times, new species can be found literally at our door step. But who has found a new species in their pantry?