Position: NIWA Fisheries modeller On this voyage I nearly stepped on some slime that washed out an oreo stomach. I like stomach slime, so I picked it up. Turns out it may be a new species of squid. Who’d’ve thought? Cool. I’ve been working at NIWA for 6 years and 9...
Position: Independent marine scientist I was a fisheries observer in South Georgia and one day there was a fire on a Korean fishing boat, so we helped with a response. We needed to give oxygen to the recovering crew. The ones who were a little better were challenged...
Position: NIWA fisheries biologist/cephalopod parataxonomist I have a big cephalopod beak collection which Heather Braid has DNA barcoded to know what species they are. We can use the beaks to find out the size, species, sex and maturity of squid. Beaks can be used to...
Position: NIWA Principal Scientist, Program leader for stock assessment and monitoring. One of the most fun things I’ve done was let Happy Feet the penguin go. We brought him to the Sub-Antarctic to let him go in 2011. It was very cool going on a voyage with a...
Position: NIWA fisheries scientist, Voyage leader I was invited to attend a voyage on a French vessel East of Madagascar once. We got to travel around the Indian ocean getting acoustic data, and we travelled to the Sub-Antarctic islands and land on them to see...
