Estuaries

Iwi has joined forces with councils and NIWA to restore an estuarine ecosystem to its former health.

This Habitat Mapping module will show you how to collect useful information to describe and monitor habitats in estuaries.

The type of sediment that is deposited in your estuary, be it mud or sand, and how quickly it is deposited, has a big influence on what your estuary will look like, how clear the water will be, and the types of plants and animals that can live in it. Download 7 guides for this module.

Moored underwater cameras have exposed the secret lives of orange roughy nearly 900 metres below the ocean surface.

NIWA has developed an Urban Stormwater Contaminant (USC) model to enable urban planners to predict sedimentation and heavy metal accumulation in estuaries and identify problem areas in order to target mitigation measures.

These guidelines outline a recommended minimum set of methods for a community group interested in following habitat changes in an estuary.

Over the past decade, NIWA has published many popular articles that deal with estuaries - this overview is intended to bring together and make whole sense of the information published to date in the various popular articles.