Voyages

A versatile inshore vessel, RV Ikatere is equipped with high-precision multibeam and sub-bottom profiler transducers for surveying and mapping the seabed.

Kaharoa is capable of working throughout New Zealand's EEZ and further afield.

RV Tangaroa Voyage TAN1703
5 April – 1 May 2017

Quantifying Benthic Biodiversity: a factual voyage report from RV Tangaroa voyage TAN1701 to Chatham Rise
4 January – 2 February 2017

Tangaroa TAN1613 Voyage Report

The main output of this voyage is providing data and fundamental base maps for future regional prospectivity surveys, tectonic plate reconstructions, and general understanding of the architecture of the Kermadec backarc.

Otago Multibeam 2: Great South Basin and Southern Canterbury Shelf.

The voyage to the Kermadec region is a collaborative expedition between NIWA, Auckland Museum, Kelly Tarlton’s, Department of Conservation, Auckland and Massey Universities, The PEW Charitable Trusts and Te Papa.

NIWA researchers have spent part of the last month keeping a close eye on the bottom of Lake Tekapo to find out what it looks like and what is going on below the lake bed.

NIWA’s research vessel Kaharoa carried out a three-week voyage to deploy the first Deep Argo floats to collect data on climate change at ocean depths of about 5700m.

NIWA scientists use the latest multibeam echo-sounding technology to generate new charts of the seafloor around Kapiti island.