The second week we were back near Hamilton, setting up a stream sedimentation experiment on a farm in Whatawhata. This experiment is run by Brian Smith and Richard Storey, two NIWA freshwater biologists who focus on aquatic invertebrate research. Excess sedimentation...
I spent most of the first week of my NIWA ambassadorship in the Coromandel, monitoring stream invertebrates in forestry catchments with Brian Smith, a freshwater biologist, and Kat Reeves, a freshwater ecology technician. We monitored 13 sites in total, which were...
Two weeks down and two to go! We are officially halfway through the trip and making our way, slowly, back towards the mainland surveying as we go. We began heading towards the Chatham Islands, hung around the north side for a few days and now we are heading back west...
We are now a week into the trip and starting to get quite familiar with life on-board and the work! Our shifts are spent below deck in the wet lab sorting the catch and entering biological data for each species of fish, sharks, invertebrates and everything we catch....
Tangaroa left Wellington on schedule at 4.30pm on Thursday 4 January. We reached the Chatham Rise survey area early on 5 January, but we’ve headed straight into a tropical low pressure system (a big storm) with up to 50 knots (100 km/h) of wind, and swells of up to 6...
Welcome aboard the Tangaroa, ‘The God of the sea’, a fisheries research vessel purpose-built in 1991 for NIWA, also used for oceanographic surveying, seafloor mapping, and other marine research. We (Tory and Toby) will be spending the next 4 weeks aboard this vessel,...
