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Executive Director of Mountains to Sea, Zoe Studd, talks about their latest citizen science project Love Rimurimu, focusing on giant kelp restoration in the Taputeranga Marine Reserve.

The Healthy & Resilient Ocean Laboratory is the first in a series of virtual international Ocean Decade laboratories that will take place in 2022.

The lab features a range of presentations and activities from around the globe including New Zealand and Pacific participants which are being hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in partnership with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.

This article summarises a recent report drawing on work by GNS Science, Victoria University of Wellington, the Antarctic Science Platform and researchers in many other New Zealand and overseas organisations, as well as publications from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It highlights the importance of the poles and how scientists model the past to predict the future of Antarctica.

Submit your ocean design concepts showcasing Māori or Pacific ocean knowledges and win the $5k prize!

The authors are looking at indigenous environmental stewardship and how indigenous marine governance is experiencing a revival.

Professor Lionel Carter (VUW) writes about the Aotearoa New Zealand Ocean as a meeting place of cultures, tectonic plates, subtropical to polar oceans and climate systems.