Two New Zealand research organisations will work closely with one of the world's leading ocean research and engineering organisations to accelerate research and exploration in a wide range of oceanographic topics in the southwest Pacific region.

12 June 2009 - A scientist who has forged important international linkages for New Zealand's science system has been appointed as the University of Otago's new Director (Research).

7 APRIL 2009 - New Zealand has joined a major international scientific drilling programme that will collect sediment cores from beneath the seabed in New Zealand waters later this year.