NIWA annual report : 2007

Abstract

The growth and success of NIWA over the past six years is truly one of the untold success stories of New Zealand. Building on the legacy of NIWA’s origins, our 730 people have positioned our company, and country, at the forefront of the world’s knowledge about environmental science. The fact that many of NIWA’s scientists are recognised globally for their expertise is testimony to that. Those ozone balloon measurements this year provided the first evidence of a recovery in southern mid-latitude ozone – a signal of the success of concerted international effort under the Montreal Protocol to combat a global environmental problem. NIWA scientists were part of that effort from the beginning, as they are now with the even more complex challenge of global climate change.