Displaying items by tag: NIWA

Thursday, 23 January 2025 13:39

Major shakeup for the NZ science system

The government has announced a major restructuring of the country's seven crown research institutes (CRIs), which will see them merged into three public research organisations (PROs).

Published in General News
Wednesday, 20 November 2024 10:55

Review SOEs!

OPINION: NIWA has long weathered complaints about alleged stifling of competition in forecasting, and more recently, claims of lack of transparency by the Crown-owned entity - spurred by its refusal to release information under the OIA about its conduct around Cyclone Gabrielle and the Hawke's Bay flooding.

Published in The Hound
Wednesday, 16 October 2024 10:55

Cloud of uncertainty over weather services merger

Merging MetService and NIWA is the right thing to do, but independent weather forecaster Phil Duncan of WeatherWatch says he isn’t sure a merged entity will boost rural weather forecasting.

Published in General News

NIWA scientists leading New Zealand’s MethaneSAT agricultural emissions science programme are gearing up for the launch of its satellite.

Published in Management
Thursday, 28 September 2023 11:55

Editorial: Be prepared!

OPINION: Plan for the worst and hope for the best!

Published in Opinion
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 08:55

Drought coming!

Major players in the primary sector are mobilising staff ahead of NIWA's predictions that regions severely damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle are about to be hit by potentially one of the country's worst droughts.

Published in General News
Thursday, 22 September 2022 07:55

Using native algae to cut leaching

NIWA is working with Māori farming enterprises on a novel approach to remove nutrients from agricultural runoff.

Published in Management
Friday, 19 August 2022 08:55

Wet weather means more worms

Following NZ's wettest July, according to NIWA, a laboratory analysing faecal egg counts (FEC) says this has led to record parasite numbers in sheep across the country.

Published in Farm Health
Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:55

Wet, wet, wet!

After a very wet July, NIWA is forecasting a ray of hope for sodden farmers. Temperatures are most likely to be warmer than average across most of the country through the middle of spring 2022.

Published in Agribusiness

A quarter-century of weather data from one Central Otago farm is being analysed to see if it could lead to better farm planning for temperature and moisture variations across different altitudes and aspects.

Published in General News
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