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Summer Series week 5: Life's a beach
16 January 2017
Six scientists reveal their favourite beaches but also observe how they’re changing.
Summer Series week 4: Scientist keeps cool head on the ice
6 January 2017
Top of Natalie Robinson’s to-do list right now is to work out exactly what she’s brought back from Antarctica.
Summer Series week 3: Above and beyond, a voyage in the pacific
2 January 2017
A NIWA technician spends four days and three nights on a crowded boat heading to one of the most remote places in the Pacific to help install a weather station. Conditions are so arduous he decides to quit his job - but how do you do that in the middle of the ocean?
Summer Series week 2: Scientists set up offices in the great outdoors
26 December 2016
Summer is for scientific fieldwork. Three NIWA scientists are heading into the wild blue yonder, some with fancy technology and others with a coffee cup and a bag of party balloons.