NIWA has been awarded $10.2m to eradicate an invasive clam that was only recently discovered in New Zealand waters. The freshwater gold clam, or Corbicula fluminea, is native to eastern and southeast ...

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Te Kūwaha, NIWA’s National Centre for Māori Environmental Research is a dedicated Māori research team, with a vision to work in partnership with others to enable complementary knowledge systems to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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