Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest and highest continent on Earth. What makes the frozen continent so valuable to scientists and vulnerable to human contact? Every year, scientists and ...
NIWA’s research vessel the Tangaroa went on an 8-week voyage to the Ross Sea to survey the marine environment and explore biodiversity in the region. The journey from February until mid-March ...
The main current in the Southern Ocean is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), which flows from west to east, all the way around Antarctica. The ACC is the biggest current in the world and ...
This teacher resource lists selected articles from the Connected and School Journal reading series that support science concepts when teaching about climate change. Connected and School Journal ...
In this activity, students read the book Rangitoto by Maria Gill and Heather Arnold (ISBN 978 014 350334 7). Using the information, they write their own story of Rangitoto, from the point of view ...
The Planet Four online citizen science project is designed to assist planetary scientists to identify and measure features on the surface of Mars that don’t exist on Earth. Help is needed to ...
This citizen science project wants your assistance to extract information from various climate scientific graphics to help combat misinformation and support scientific communication. Using this ...
Marine Metre Squared is a New Zealand citizen science project that supports communities to monitor their local seashore. The project has been designed to provide meaningful, valid environmental ...
About 14,000 earthquakes are recorded in and around Aotearoa New Zealand every year. Canterbury’s 7.1 and Kaikōura's 7.8 magnitude earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks show the constant threat ...
In this recorded professional learning session, Lyn Rogers and guest Aliki Weststrate from GNS Science explore some of the science involved in building our understandings of natural hazards ...
Active reading is an important activity for making meaning during the process of science inquiry (Osborne, 2010). The integration of science and literacy can enhance student learning in both ...
To keep Antarctica as pristine as possible all impacts from human presence have to be kept to an absolute minimum, this includes human wastes. The field camp has an out-doors toilet that consists ...
Stacey Mulgrew, the Land Information representative gives a tour of the ship. Stacey starts on deck and explains the decks of the ship using the ship’s deck plans. She shows where one of the ...
Dr Ashley Rowden, a principal scientist with the NIWA Marine Benthic Ecology group based in Wellington, explains what cold seeps are, where they are located in New Zealand and why rich ...
Use this interactive to work out the relative ages of some rock layers from youngest to oldest. Drag and drop the text labels onto the diagram. Go here to find out more about how to use this ...
In this interactive follow a core sample as it makes its journey from the Alpine Fault to microscopic examination.
This is the slideshow that supports the Exploring natural hazards PLD webinar. Use the Slideshow menu for further options, including view full screen, and go here for the download option.
