Coasts

NIWA scientists are this month launching some cutting-edge technology capable of finding out what's going on at the bottom of the ocean.

A marine animal thought to have been extinct for four million years has been found alive and well and living near Picton.

NIWA scientists are among a small group working to understand why New Zealand's sea lion population is declining. Using a range of methods, they're finding that the cause of the decline is varied, and includes changes in diet, bacterial infection, low pupping rates and low survival rates.

In late 2013, a group of scientists from NIWA travelled to Antarctica to perform a series of experiments under the sea ice to look at how climate change and ocean acidification could affect this fragile ecosytem.

NIWA staff involved with the Louisville Seamount Chain voyage have wide ranging skills and expertise.

The Louisville Seamount Chain VME Voyage is now completed and we are on the long steam home, made challenging due to the weather. What happened to those sunny calm days we experienced on most of the voyage?

NIWA scientist Cliff Law was today awarded the prestigious 2013 Hutchinson Medal, by the International Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Ocean chemistry is changing rapidly due to the influx of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, largely from human activities including the combustion of fossil fuels.

Rarely seen fish caught in the Kermadec Trench have enabled scientists to better understand just how deep fish can survive in the ocean.

In this post we look at the tools we are using to undertake our survey of the seamounts on our voyage to the Louisville Seamount Chain.

The NIWA Deep Towed Imaging System (DTIS) enables us to capture video and still images of sea life on the ocean floor.