Innovation fund
These projects either enhance use of our marine resources within environmental and biological constraints or increase diversification in marine economies
The fund introduces new approaches, capability, research and researchers to Sustainable Seas. It supports projects up to a value of $150k a year for 2 years.
The projects either ‘enhance utilisation of our marine resources within environmental and biological constraints’ and complement research already funded by Sustainable Seas, or ‘increase diversification in marine economies’, ie add value to the marine economy.
Projects
Our Seas
- Testing participatory processes for marine management
- Enabling inter-agency collaboration on cumulative effects
Valuable Seas
- Ocean acidification mitigation strategies for the mussel industry
- Re-use of offshore infrastructure and platforms: assessing value to communities, industry and environment
- Forecasting contamination risk for shellfish harvest and beach use
- Huataukīna tō iwi e: Developing marine bioactives from kina
- Early detection of harmful algal blooms
- Energy from tidal currents—Kick-starting a new marine industry with huge potential
- New blue economy in Kaikōura: a participatory process approach
Dynamic Seas
- Submarine canyons: connecting coastal and deep-sea ecosystems
- Sediment tolerance and mortality thresholds of benthic habitats
- Quantifying marine biodiversity using environmental DNA
- Estimating historic effects from sedimentation and fishing
- Defining rocky reef tipping points associated with the Kaikōura earthquake
Managed Seas
Latest news and updates
Maritime Museum Talk: Forecasting contamination
Watch recordings of our second NZ Maritime Museum breakfast talk from 19 August 2019. Ben Knight and Lincoln Mackenzie spoke about their research on forecasting and detecting marine contamination and harmful algal blooms.
New ways of defining seafloor resilience
A recent publication from the Tipping Points project identifies the factors that characterise how resilient a seafloor ecosystem is to change caused by stressors or disturbances.
Kudos Award for Drew Lohrer
NIWA researcher Drew Lohrer was named among eight winners in the 2019 Kudos Awards in early September.