Marine invertebrates

27 October 2018. The NIWA Blake Ambassadors shoot a 12 hour time lapse from the cutaway deck on the RV Tangaroa.

4 November 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima.

30 October 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima.

Sampling salps from different depths

25 October 2018. By Voyage Leader Dr Moira Decima.

24 October 2018: NIWA Blake Ambassadors Lana Young and Siobhan O'Connor report back

Students at Leigh School have been working with marine scientists and the 'Year of the Salps' project partners to learn how to count sea salps, understand salp life cycle phases and the importance of salps in marine ecosystems and their carbon-cycling effects on climate change.

Who is involved in the TAN1810 SalPOOP voyage?

15 March 2018
Think about a futuristic world where at night time, people use different kind of self-propelled vehicles to hover across cities, illuminating the skies with different colours and shapes, while transiting around them.

NIWA’s Marine Invertebrate Collection has welcomed two extremely rare octopus that have only just been provisionally identified.

An interactive guide to the sponges of New Zealand.