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IPY CAML
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedBiological data from the IPY-CAML voyage (TAN0802) by the R/V Tangaroa. The TAN0802 voyage departed from Wellington, New Zealand on Jan 26th 2008 and returned to Wellington, New Zealand, on Mar 21st 2008. The survey was concentrated mainly on the Ross Sea and the waters around Scott and the Balleny Islands. Biological data was collected using a variety of...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
MBIS TAE Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedDuring the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958, the distribution of phytoplankton in the southern ocean and Ross Sea was investigated from fifty-seven samples taken at roughly 30-mile intervals between southern New Zealand and McMurdo Sound. The greatest diversity of species occurred between 55° and 60°S, just north of the Antarctic Convergence. Maximum...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
NZ angler fishes
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedCeratioid anglerfishes collected from New Zealand waters are reviewed on the basis of all known material. Twenty species in nine genera and six families are recognised; nine species represent new records for the region, and one species of Oneirodes is described as new to science. Diagnostic and descriptive data are given with notes on geographical...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
MPI tag
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedTagging programmes have been used to provide information on fish and fisheries to central government policy makers in New Zealand for many years. A wide variety of species have been the subject of such studies, including finfish, shellfish and rock lobsters. In New Zealand, the Ministry for Primary Industries (formerly the Ministry of Fisheries) has...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
Sympatry of two coral species complexes
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedThe identification of species is one of the most basic, and yet critically important, issues in biology with far-reaching potential implications for fields such as biodiversity conservation, population ecology and epidemiology. Morphology has long been the primary tool biologists have used to categorize life. However, we now know that a significant...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
NZ Bathymetry 250m
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedNIWA's bathymetry model of New Zealand at a 250m resolution. The 2016 model is a compilation of data digitised from published coastal charts, digital soundings archive, navy collector sheets and digital multibeam data sourced from surveys by NIWA, LINZ, as well as international surveys by vessels from United States of America, France, Germany, Australia,...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
HIRDS v4 Rainfall Depth Surfaces
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedThe High Intensity Rainfall Design System (HIRDS) provides estimates of high intensity rainfall at ungauged locations for a range of return periods and event durations. These surfaces can be used for design storm assessment and in the design of flood protection works and other waterway structures. They can also be used for flood modelling, including flood...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
New Zealand Marine Environment Classification
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedThe Marine Environment Classification (MEC), a GIS-based environmental classification of the marine environment of the New Zealand region, is an ecosystem-based spatial framework designed for marine management purposes. Developed 2005 by NIWA with support from the Ministry for the Environment (MfE), Department of Conservation and Ministry of Fisheries,...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
Hydro Net Junctions
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedRiver Environment Classification: This is REC2 (Version 3) , July 2017 - a publicly available dataset from NIWA Taihoro Nukurangi see here: https://www.niwa.co.nz/freshwater-and-estuaries/management-tools/river-environment-classification-0: The River Environment Classification (REC) is a database of catchment spatial attributes, summarised for every...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
River Lines
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedRiver Environment Classification: This is REC2 (Version 3) , July 2017 - a publicly available dataset from NIWA Taihoro Nukurangi see here: https://www.niwa.co.nz/freshwater-and-estuaries/management-tools/river-environment-classification-0: The River Environment Classification (REC) is a database of catchment spatial attributes, summarised for every...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited<div> <div> <div> <a href="https://niwa.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=9104c9b367f14e76ac48af3725d68dac"> Open in Map Viewer <img...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
MEC EEZ 40 class
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited<div> <div> <div> <a href="https://niwa.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=9104c9b367f14e76ac48af3725d68dac"> Open in Map Viewer <img...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
MEC EEZ 20 class
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited<div> <div> <div> <a href="https://niwa.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=9104c9b367f14e76ac48af3725d68dac"> Open in Map Viewer <img...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
MEC EEZ 10 class
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited<div> <div> <div> <a href="https://niwa.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=9104c9b367f14e76ac48af3725d68dac"> Open in Map Viewer <img...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
MEC EEZ 05 class
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited<div> <div> <div> <a href="https://niwa.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=9104c9b367f14e76ac48af3725d68dac"> Open in Map Viewer <img...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
Coastline
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited<div> <div> <div> <a href="https://niwa.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=9104c9b367f14e76ac48af3725d68dac"> Open in Map Viewer <img...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
Watersheds
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedRiver Environment Classification: This is REC2 (Version 3) , July 2017 - a publicly available dataset from NIWA Taihoro Nukurangi see here: https://www.niwa.co.nz/freshwater-and-estuaries/management-tools/river-environment-classification-0: The River Environment Classification (REC) is a database of catchment spatial attributes, summarised for every...Created 24 January 2019 • Updated 24 January 2019 -
NIWA New Zealand Bathymetry Contours (2016)
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedBathymetry vector contour dataset. Compilation of data digitised from published coastal charts, digital soundings archive, navy collector sheets and digital multibeam data sourced from surveys by NIWA, LINZ, as well as international surveys by vessels from United States of America, France, Germany, Australia, and Japan.All data used is held at NIWA....Created 10 April 2017 • Updated 10 April 2017 -
New Zealand Region Bathymetry (2008)
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedPublished Chart: Charting Around New Zealand (CANZ) Group (2008), 'New Zealand Region Bathymetry', 1:4,000,000 scale at 46°S on Mercator projection, NIWA Chart, Miscellaneous Series No. 85, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand Geographic Coverage: In the edgematching of this sheet with GEBCO sheet G.08, the...Created 10 April 2017 • Updated 10 April 2017 -
NIWA New Zealand Bathymetic Grid (2016)
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research LimitedNIWA's bathymetry model of New Zealand at a 250m resolution raster. The model is a compilation of data digitised from published coastal charts, digital soundings archive, navy collector sheets and digital multibeam data sourced from surveys by NIWA, LINZ, as well as international surveys by vessels from United States of America, France, Germany,...Created 10 April 2017 • Updated 10 April 2017