Ecological monitoring

We offer a range of ecological monitoring tools.

Could bubbles and strobe lights stop pest fish swimming where they’re not wanted?

NIWA and partners launch critical research to stop an invasive clam threatening New Zealand's freshwater ecosystem.

Introducing NIWA sediment transport scientist Clare Wilkinson.

NIWA’s Stream Health Monitoring Assessment Kit (SHMAK) gives land owners, iwi, school and community groups simple, scientifically-sound tools and resources to monitor the ecological health of New Zealand’s streams.

Sam Fraser-Baxter heads out with a NIWA research team keeping a close eye on these vulnerable transition zones.

NIWA is helping to ensure that New Zealand’s unique and iconic freshwater species are healthy, abundant and thriving.

Tiny, translucent eels may hold the answers to one of the fish world’s great mysteries. Zen Gregor investigates.

This manual prescribes a set of sampling and analysis protocols applicable to most of the common stream habitats in New Zealand.

How healthy is your stream? SHMAK - the New Zealand Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit - has been designed to help you find out.

The condition of many NZ lakes is under threat from land-use changes and the invasion of alien aquatic plants.

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