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Read about the important science being undertaken at NIWA, and how it affects New Zealanders

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    Storm information update

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    Snow storm provides crucial information for scientists

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    The Deep South drives New Zealand’s future

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    Data with a bloody past has positive spin-off for endangered whale species

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    Fiordland’s depths reveal more new-to-science wonders

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    2013 - Kaikoura tsunami risks

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    Surveying work carried out by NIWA scientists this week is helping provide new insights into the tsunami risk from undersea landslides in the Kaikoura Canyon.
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    Summer Series 7: Little squirts that hang out around the coast

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    New finds from the deep sea off New Zealand

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    NIWA’s Tangaroa sets sail to study how Antarctica affects ocean currents

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    2013 - Kermadec Trench

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    Scientists set sail on NIWA's research vessel Kaharoa this week to film and explore many aspects of life in deep-sea habitats, and capture fish that are new to science, in the Kermadec Trench, northeast of New Zealand.
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    Summer Series 4: Life in the (ex) stream - exploring New Zealand's fabulous freshwater fauna

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    Our freshwater fauna are wonderfully diverse and, according to NIWA Freshwater Ecologist Dr Richard Storey, there's nothing among them that we need to be afraid of.
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    Summer Series 3: A mako shark named Carol

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    The mako shark is fast and fascinating. The shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, has been recorded swimming at speeds of about 100km/h.