Ocean Survey 20/20 Portal
This web portal offers direct access to information gathered by Ocean Survey 20/20 projects. The information available via this web portal will aid any agency or group with an interest in developing and managing the New Zealand marine resources in an effective and sustainable way.
This web portal features:
- a web-mapping application showing sites that can be queried for further information
- access to over 20,000 seabed and specimen photographs
- a metadata catalogue allowing search and download of data and reports
Featured projects
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Bay of Islands Coastal Survey Project
As a marine environment, the Bay of Island coast is under increasing pressure from competing interests, including aquaculture, fisheries, tourism and recreation. Land-based human activities are also having an impact.
The Bay of Islands survey, carried out between 2008 and 2010 was the first OS 20/20 survey of a New Zealand coastal area and the largest ever undertaken in our coastal waters to date.
Find more about the OS 20/20 Bay of Islands Coastal Survey Project
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Chatham / Challenger Project
The Chatham / Challenger project will map and compare habitats and diversity of sea-bed communities in fishable depths at key locations across the Chatham Rise and the Challenger Plateau. These two areas have been chosen for the project because they provide a strong contrast in terms of plankton productivity.
More details of the Chatham / Challenger Project can be found at Ministry of Fisheries website.
Further information from the MAF website here.
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New Zealand IPY-CAML Project
New Zealand has conducted a major biological survey of the Ross Sea, in the Antarctic, as part of the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) and International Polar Year (IPY). Up to 26 scientists and 18 crew have taken part in an eight-week voyage aboard RV Tangaroa during February and March 2008.
More details of the New Zealand IPY-CAML project can be found at Ministry of Fisheries website
Other projects
- Graveyard and Andes Seamounts, Chatham Rise, 2009
- Antarctic Whale Expedition 2010
- Mapping the Mineral Resources of the Kermadec Arc 2011
Contact: Cornel de Ronde, GNS
- Experimental fisheries voyages, Chatham Rise 2010 & 2012
- Biogenic habitats on the NZ Continental Shelf 2011
- Southern Hikurangi Mapping 2011
Contact: John Mitchell, NIWA
- Northern Hikurangi Margin Geological Hazards" 2011