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Our Changing World for Thursday 9 June 2016

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  • Genome sequencing - a how-to-guide

    science
    Aaron Jeffs and a genome sequencing machine

    9:35 PM.If you want to sequence a genome then a company like New Zealand Genomics Ltd has the equipment and expertise to produce and manage the large amounts of data. Read more Audio, Gallery

  • Future of sea level rise science

    science environment
    John Church is a leading authority on sea level rise.

    9:20 PM.John Church, an expert on sea level rise and one of the scientists who could lose his job at CSIRO, discusses how ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are contributing to sea level rise now and in… Read more Audio

  • Diatom blooms, extinctions and climate

    science environment
    Diatom blooms occurring in newly forming frazil sea ice in the stormy waters of the Ross Sea.

    9:15 PM.Phytoplankton, which accounts for half of the planet's total biological productivity, leave a clear fossil footprint, which allows palaeontologists to trace past environmental change and extinction… Read more Audio

  • Citizen science: large brown seaweeds

    science environment
    Roberta D'Archino, left, and Kate Neill, who are both at NIWA, collecting large seaweeds that have ashore on a beach in Lyall Bay, Wellington.

    9:06 PM.Marine scientists are calling on the public to help them get a better idea of the distribution of large brown seaweeds along the coast of New Zealand. Read more Audio

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