The NIWA Biodiversity Memoir (NBM) series comprises technical works that describe New Zealand’s invertebrate marine life—sponges, corals, hydroids, worms, molluscs, crustaceans, sea stars and ...

The New Zealand Palaeotsunami Database (Database) brings together all known information about tsunamis that occurred prior to written records. The purpose of the Database is to increase awareness of ...

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. These maps (click for full sized versions) are updated daily and are based on data from our National Climate ...

NIWA and MPI are working together to develop a new drought forecasting tool. It uses innovative climate modelling, the latest in machine learning and other data-driven techniques to predict rainfall ...

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New ...

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The High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) is supercharging New Zealand science—powering researchers working at the forefront of New Zealand’s greatest science challenges. Attribution, ...

Township Flood Challenge is an online climate change and extreme weather adaptation resource for teachers. The lesson packages were co-developed between NIWA, Future Curious and the Aotearoa Social ...

Data stored in each record include the location of the sample site, sampling method and the fish species present, with many records also containing information on fish abundance and size, and a ...

Anyone can use the tool and provide data by using the survey available in the NIWA Citizen Science app. The survey/app provides a standardized way to record data on the characteristics of instream ...

The graph shows carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels measured at Baring Head, NIWA’s clean air station, near Wellington. This station has been running since 1972 and is home to the longest running continuous ...

Rangi is an online weather and climate curriculum for teachers. The lesson packages were co-developed between NIWA’s climate researchers and meteorologists, and teachers and students from a group of ...