Atmospheric analysis

NIWA has been using advanced scientific instruments to measure atmospheric trace gases and isotopes for over 50 years.

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    NIWA goes deeper than ever before, and finds new strange-looking fish

    News article
  • 2012 - Secrets of the orange roughy

    News article
    Moored underwater cameras have exposed the secret lives of orange roughy nearly 900 metres below the ocean surface.
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    Scientists discover abrupt increase in CO2 uptake by the land biosphere

    News article
    Scientists have discovered an abrupt increase in the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the land biosphere since1988. Without this natural increase in uptake, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would probably have increased even more rapidly over the last two decades.
  • Surface Ocean Aerosol Production (SOAP)

    Research Project
    How do marine micro-organisms influence the earth's atmosphere and climate?
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    New collaborative service for universities and Crown Research Institutes

    News article
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    Tangaroa sets sail to map the seabed off Otago

    News article
  • Echo, Echo: Scanning the Seafloor on R.V. Tangaroa

  • Seabed Frontier: A Brief History of Bathymetry

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    Publications for water managers

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    Pearse Resurgence Dive

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    Divers discover new to science species down in one of the deepest flooded caves in the world

    Media release
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    Fish risk assessment model

    FRAM is powerful and simple to use - series of straight-forward questions about the biology and behaviour of any alien species lead to it being ranked and categorised as a high, intermediate, or low ecological risk.