Thirteen researchers, three weeks at sea and an ever-growing list of species records – the Kermadecs expedition has been an incredible journey of discovery.

Going out with a bang. The last dive on the Kermadec Biodiversity expedition was at L’Esperance Rock, the southern-most of the Kermadec islands. And it was a very spectacular and very productive dive, which left the fish team buzzing with

It’s official. We are home – we’ve berthed in Tauranga having steamed in past the Mount on a beautiful calm day. Gary cooked us the final traditional cooked breakfast this morning, served with homemade bread that he made last night

We’re making good progress on our return journey but we’ve still got more tales to tell. Here’s one of our Kermadec side trips.

This guest blog is for keen botanists or anyone who wants to know more about the endemic L’Esperance groundsel that was mentioned in the last post and is listed as a plant ‘under threat’. For this blog I have handed

(A quick note from the shore-based team before we let you get to the blog from Alison: Well, it’s an exciting day but it’s a sad one too for followers of this blog - our intrepid team has had their

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure and that’s never been truer than it was yesterday in the Kermadecs! Looks like we’ve clocked another new species record for New Zealand and it was all thanks to some floating rubbish.

When they arrived back from Macauley Island and its 6.1 earthquake our intrepid land dwellers described it as “heinous” but - letting nothing getting in the way of their dedicated pursuit of scientific discovery - they have created this excellent

More mysterious nudibranchs have been discovered by one of our resident invertebrate specialists, Mandy. Both are tiny at just 5 millimetres long (I’m so impressed that Mandy found them while diving!) and the one pictured below was found