Eating shellfish contaminated with toxins from dinoflagellate algae, which can be 1,000 times more potent than cyanide, can in some cases be fatal. It can also have crippling and expensive consequences for the growing aquaculture industry.
Te Puna Pātiotio—Antarctic Research Centre at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is thriving, and it’s down to the strength of its research and variety of expertise across several decades.
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Professor Jim Johnston has won the top award in this year’s KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards.
Climate change is jeopardising the world’s coral reefs but marine biologists believe corals may hold the key to their own survival.
The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology has received a resounding vote of confidence for the quality and focus of its research with its fourth consecutive government designation as a Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE).
A determination to reduce earthquake risk drives the work of Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington’s Dr Carolyn Boulton, who has received a major award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
What determines the level of the land? This is one of the fundamental questions about our planet, and Associate Professor Simon Lamb and his collaborators think they have found an answer.
Dr Gerd Mittelstädt from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Ferrier Research Institute is contributing to the search for a COVID-19 vaccine by finding a rapid way to produce the proteins needed to assess potential vaccine components.
Dr Nathaniel Davis from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Chemical and Physical Sciences says he and his research team are at a significant turning point in their solar power research.
Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington researchers have received funding to help progress research into cancer and meningitis.
