Alice Morrison sorts marine organisms

David Culliford and Alice Morrison are students at the University of Waikato based at the University’s Coastal Field Centre in...

Position: Formerly University students – harbour ecology assistants for the summer, Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Manaaki Taha Moana, University...

Many of New Zealand’s species are endemic – they are found nowhere else on Earth. This makes New Zealand’s biodiversity...

Cold, oxygen-rich water from the Southern Ocean combined with a super-charged methane seep in the seafloor off New Zealand’s North...

Very tiny phytoplankton cells (a type of microscopic algae) can produce potent toxins. Although the toxin produced by one phytoplankton...