National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-06

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00:01:11 1 Mission statement
00:01:32 2 History
00:02:16 3 Research programmes
00:04:13 4 NIWA’s scientists
00:05:46 5 Research facilities
00:06:53 5.1 Lauder Atmospheric Research Laboratory
00:07:31 5.1.1 Location
00:08:04 5.1.2 Research History
00:09:22 5.1.3 Measurements
00:10:32 5.1.4 Importance
00:11:36 6 NIWA vessels
00:12:09 7 Environmental Monitoring Networks
00:13:07 8 Environmental data
00:14:56 9 NIWA Invertebrate Collection
00:15:53 10 Natural Hazards Centre



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The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research or NIWA (Māori: Taihoro Nukurangi), is a Crown Research Institute of New Zealand. Established in 1992, NIWA conducts commercial and non-commercial research across a broad range of disciplines in the environmental sciences. It also maintains nationally and, in some cases, internationally important environmental monitoring networks, databases, and collections.
As of  2016, NIWA had 634 staff spread across 16 sites in New Zealand and one in Perth, Australia. Its head office is in Auckland, with regional offices in Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Nelson, and Lauder (Central Otago). It also has small field teams, focused mostly on hydrology, stationed in Bream Bay, Lake Tekapo, Rotorua, Turangi, Napier, Whanganui, Greymouth, Alexandra, and Dunedin. NIWA maintains a fleet of about 30 vessels for freshwater, marine, and atmospheric research.