Science Stories

• Butterflies
• Celebrating Science
• Conserving Native Birds
• Cycling Aerodynamics
• Earthworms
• Ever Wondered? Series 1
• Ever Wondered? Series 2
• Harnessing the Sun
• Measurement
• Microorganisms
• Our Heritage Scientists
• Our Senses
• Research Voyage to Antarctica
• Resource Management
• Science Made Simple
• Strange Liquids
• Tsunamis and Surf
• TVNZ Innovation Stories
• Where Land Meets Sea
  • Surveying the Bay of Plenty coastline
  • Marine biodiversity and biodiscovery
  • Marine biodiversity in New Zealand
  • Environmental toxicity
  • The Coastal Marine Group
  • Habitats in the Bay of Plenty
  • Biodiversity in the Bay of Plenty
  • Adapting to marine habitats
  • Resilience to stress
  • Human impacts on the Bay of Plenty
  • Rena bird recovery
  • Pollution from Rena
  • Cleaning up the oil spill
  • Iwi and kaimoana
  • Professor Chris Battershill
  • David Culliford and Alice Morrison
  • Nikki Webb
  • Where do I live?
  • Introducing biodiversity
  • Responding to Rena
  • Cleaning up oil in water
  • Sci Media
    • Images
      • A biodiverse marine ecosystem
      • A site marked out for sampling
      • Alice Morrison sorts marine organisms
      • Beads washing up from the Rena
      • Biodiversity
      • Booms and skimmers
      • Cleaning a penguin
      • Coastal Marine Field Station
      • Coastal Science leader Chris Battershill
      • Container from the Rena
      • David Culliford at work
      • De-oiled penguin
      • Earthworks can result in sedimentation
      • Ecosystem overfishing
      • Emma Sommerville with penguin
      • Golf ball sponge
      • Harvesting oysters in Chesapeake Bay
      • Iwi liaison Taute Taiepa
      • Kaimoana
      • Life in the estuary
      • Limpets cling to rocks
      • Mangroves in Tauranga Harbour
      • Mixtures of contaminants can be potent
      • Mōtītī oil spill clean-up
      • Mt Maunganui surf beach
      • Nikki Webb collects marine samples
      • Nikki Webb collects marine specimens
      • Nikki Webb on Leisure Island
      • NIWA explores marine biodiversity hotspots
      • Ocean treasures
      • Oil cleaned from Pāpāmoa Beach
      • Oil slick from the Rena
      • Oil spill – Mt Maunganui
      • Oiled penguin
      • Paddle crab
      • Pipi shells are examples of structural adaptation
      • Quadrat marked for photographing
      • Rena losing containers in heavy swells
      • Sample of red seaweed
      • Sea sponge with cancer-fighting compounds
      • Surfactants
      • Taking core samples
      • Tauranga estuary
      • Underwater survey of marine life
    • Video