Data Collection

Science Centres: Environmental Information

NIWA collects a vast range of environmental information from New Zealand’s environment from the sky (remote sensing, upper atmosphere) to the seafloor (ocean geology, sea floor). These observation operations are underpinned by NIWA’s instrument services, field services, lab services and support NIWA’s national monitoring networks.

NIWA Instrument Services include

  • Weather stations for various purposes.
  • End-to-end water flow measurement and irrigation control systems including various sensor, logger, and actuator types.
  • Water Quality Samplers and Sensors
  • Electric Fishing Machines
  • Intelligent Wave Gauges

For a detailed list of NIWA’s instrument services, see our instrument systems page.

 

NIWA Field Services has a range of capabilities including

  • Experts in atmospheric monitoring and sampling (UV, Solar, Greenhouse gases)
  • Experts in Hydrometric Monitoring with ISO 9000 accreditation (Water Level, Gauging, Quality Control)
  • Experts in Climate Monitoring (Climate Stations, Climate Data Quality Control)
  • Experts in sediment gauging
  • Experts in water quality monitoring
  • Fish Screening
  • Fish Stock Assessment
  • Invertebrate Sampling
  • Benthic environments

 

NIWA Lab Services

  • Air Quality and Chemistry
  • Water Quality and Chemistry
  • Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecology (fish, invertebrates, algae)
  • Marine Biodiversity and Ecology (fish, invertebrates, algae)
  • Microbiology
  • Pathology
  • Radioactives

 

NIWA Science Expertise in:

  • Various atmospheric monitoring, incl. Greenhouse gas monitoring (Ozone, CO2, Methane, etc.)
  • Climate and hydrometric (inc. soil moisture) monitoring
  • Water Quality Monitoring: rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, oceans
  • Irrigation monitoring and control systems
  • Freshwater ecology and biology monitoring: fish (screening), invertebrates, macrophytes, algae, etc.
  • Coastal Monitoring: beach profiles, sedimentology, water quality, etc.
  • Oceans Monitoring: New Zealand’s Research vessel, bathymetric surveys, moorings, buoy development and deployment.
  • Marine Fish Monitoring: Fish Stock Assessments, etc.
  • Ocean floor monitoring: Ocean Geology, Benthic Environments, Invertebrates.