Coasts

Footage - mostly time lapse - from the New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015...with some random music!

NIWA’s RV Tangaroa encounters bad weather while returning to New Zealand from Antarctica.

Highlights of the New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015.

At the base of the ocean’s food chain are algae. Algae feed the krill that feed the whales.

The mottled brittle star Ophionereis fasciata, known as weki huna in Māori, lives under rocks in the low intertidal or shallow subtidal right around New Zealand.

Ice pilot Scott Laughlin is on the New Zealand - Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage to guide RV Tangaroa through the Antarctic waters.

A state-of-the-art underwater research glider has been unveiled by NIWA scientists in Wellington.

Over the last 50 years the atoll of South Tarawa, in Kiribati has experienced large increases in population.

NIWA research vessel Tangaroa, down in Antarctic waters, received some welcome visitors yesterday

NIWA scientists aboard RV Tangaroa have been trawling the central Ross Sea calculating the abundance of the prey species.

The region around the Balleny Islands is a known foraging area for humpback whales. Objective one of the Antarctica voyage aimed to determine why the Islands are such a popular spot for humpback whales.

Antarctic blue whales were severely depleted during the industrial whaling era, when the population declined to only a few hundred individuals. Scientists believe the Antarctic blue whale population has been recovering, albeit very slowly, since the 1960s.