The New Zealand Terrestrial Antarctic Biocomplexity Survey (nzTABS) is the largest and most comprehensive interdisciplinary landscape-scale study of terrestrial biology ever undertaken in Antarctica, incorporating fieldwork of 1500+ person days in 6 of the Dry Valleys (total area of 6500 km2), strategic sampling of over 1200 sites designed to encompass the landscape heterogeneities in the ecosystem, and a range of high-resolution remote sensing data. All samples were collected during the month of January in each sampling year. Initially a 220 km2 study area, consisting of Miers, Marshall, and Garwood Valleys as well as Shangri-La, was divided into more than 600 geographically and geologically distinct ice-free sectors (hereinafter “tiles”) using remote-sensing data and published soil maps. Tile boundaries were delineated where the combination of geographical and geological variables changed, and on-the-ground assessments were carried out in November 2008 to confirm the reliability of delineations. 554 tiles were chosen for sampling to encompass the entire range of geographical and geological heterogeneity. Sampling of soils and biological communities was carried out over two successive austral summers (January 2009 and January 2010). Surveys were conducted for vegetation (i.e., mosses, lichens, algal and cyanobacterial mats), lithic microbial communities, and invertebrates at each sampling site (verified by GPS to be inside its respective tile), followed by collection of bulk soil samples for additional analyses, including molecular analyses of bacteria (total and cyanobacteria-only) and fungi. In addition, a number of key variables were derived from satellite imagery, including surface soil temperature, a topographically derived ‘wetness index’, and distance to the coast. After quality control, data for 490 samples were included in the analysis. These data represent geochemistry and geomorphology to population genetics and microbial ecology parameters. Further details are provided at https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0274-5. Please cite the data with the following citation: Lee, C.K., Laughlin, D.C., Bottos, E.M. et al. Biotic interactions are an unexpected yet critical control on the complexity of an abiotically driven polar ecosystem. Commun Biol 2, 62 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0274-5

Orthophotography within the Bay of Plenty Region captured in the flying season of 2023-2024. Coverage encompasses the Bay of Plenty Region. Imagery was captured for National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research by Woolpert NZ Ltd (formerly AAM NZ Ltd), 6 Ossian St, Napier, New Zealand. Data comprises: • 372 ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:5000 tile layout. • Tile layout in NZTM projection containing relevant information. The supplied imagery is in terms of New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) map projection. Please refer to the tile index layer for specific details, naming conventions, etc. Imagery supplied as 20cm pixel resolution (0.2m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is ±1 at 68% confidence level in clear flat areas. Index tiles for this dataset are available as layer [Bay of Plenty 0.2m Rural Aerial Photos Index Tiles (2023-2024)](http://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/117552) Also available on: • [Basemaps](https://basemaps.linz.govt.nz/@-37.7965560,176.7481607,z9.51?i=bay-of-plenty-2023-2024-0.2m) • [NZ Imagery - Registry of Open Data on AWS](https://registry.opendata.aws/nz-imagery/)

Index Tiles ONLY, for actual orthophotos see layer [Porirua 0.1m Urban Aerial Photos (2024)](http://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/117091) Orthophotography within the Wellington Region captured in the flying season of 2023-2024. Coverage encompasses Porirua and Mana Island. Imagery was captured for Porirua City Council by Landpro Ltd, 13 Pinot Noir Drive, Cromwell 9310, New Zealand. Data comprises: • 667 ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:1000 tile layout. • Tile layout in NZTM projection containing relevant information. The supplied imagery is in terms of New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) map projection. Imagery supplied as 10cm pixel resolution (0.1m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is ±0.2 at confidence level in clear flat areas. Also available on: • [Basemaps](https://basemaps.linz.govt.nz/@-41.0834915,174.8886110,z11.25?i=porirua-2024-0.1m) • [NZ Imagery - Registry of Open Data on AWS](https://registry.opendata.aws/nz-imagery/)

Data provided here have been collected as part of the project "Measurements and Improved Parameterization of the Thermal Conductivity and Heat Flow through First-Year Sea Ice", OPP-0126007* and include measurements of temperature and various ice properties at selected sites in first-year and multiyear sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica in the years 2002-2004. Data from earlier installations of thermistor chains for measurements of ice temperature carried out by the New Zealand team have also been included. Data files are in Microsoft Excel format, with individual worksheets for specific cores or temperature data sets. Detailed information and comments on data sampling location etc. are provided in the files. Further information on data collection, results etc. can be found in the following publications: Backstrom, L. G. E., and H. Eicken 2007, submitted, Capacitance probe measurements of brine volume and bulk salinity in first-year sea ice, Cold Reg. Sci. Tech. Pringle, D. J., H. Eicken, H. J. Trodahl, and L. G. E. Backstrom 2007, submitted, Thermal conductivity of landfast Antarctic and Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res. Trodahl, H. J., S. O. F. Wilkinson, M. J. McGuinness, and T. G. Haskell 2001, Thermal conductivity of sea ice; dependence on temperature and depth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1279-1282. Data are in Microsoft Excel format. Abbreviations: AH = Arrival Heights; CH = Camp Haskell (near Delbridge Islands); VUW = Victoria University Wellington; UAF = University Alaska Fairbanks. RELATED PUBLICATION: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.108 GET DATA: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ooUH9dPvWT66afFC51Cb0JOHg66rn0sy

This pilot dataset provides a non-spatial relationship between unit_of_property_id and address_id from the [NZ Addresses](https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/105689-nz-addresses/) dataset. This table provides a PDMF-compliant link between property and address. The data is updated on a weekly basis. **Related tables** Please refer to the [NZ Properties Data Dictionary](https://data.linz.govt.nz/document/22999) for detailed metadata and information about this table and its relationships to other tables in this collection.

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a highly polymorphic gene family that is crucial in immunity, and its diversity can be effectively used as a fitness marker for populations. Despite this, MHC remains poorly characterised in non-model species (e.g., cetaceans: whales, dolphins and porpoises) as high gene copy number variation, especially in the fast-evolving class I region, makes analyses of genomic sequences difficult. To date, only small sections of class I and IIa genes have been used to assess functional diversity in cetacean populations. Here, we undertook a systematic characterisation of the MHC class I and IIa regions in available cetacean genomes. We extracted full-length gene sequences to design pan-cetacean primers that amplified the complete exon2 from MHC class I and IIa genes in one combined sequencing panel. We validated this panel in 19 cetacean species and described 354 alleles for both classes. Furthermore, we identified likely assembly artefacts for many MHC class I assemblies based on the presence of class I genes in the amplicon data compared to missing genes from genomes. Finally, we investigated MHC diversity using the panel in 25 humpback and 30 southern right whales, including four paternity trios for humpback whales. This revealed copy-number variable class I haplotypes in humpback whales, which is likely a common phenomenon across cetaceans. These MHC alleles will form the basis for a cetacean branch of the Immuno-Polymorphism Database (IPD-MHC), a curated resource intended to aid in the systematic compilation of MHC alleles across several species, to support conservation initiatives. The dataset contains 85 fastq files. Each file contains reads of amplicons from five MHC loci (DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB, and class I genes) combined across separate sequencing runs from a single cetacean. Details on individual cetacean sample abbreviations can be found in the manuscript. Reads are paired and merged with the Illumina adapter removed. It also contains one fastq file with all class I alleles found and one fastq file with non-functional DRB alleles found. Alleles are labeled with four letter species abbreviation followed by locus designation (DRB or N for class I) and are numbered in the order they were discovered. Further details are provided at: Heimeier, D., Garland, E. C., Eichenberger, F., Garrigue, C., Vella, A., Baker, C. S., & Carroll, E. L. (2024). A pan-cetacean MHC amplicon sequencing panel developed and evaluated in combination with genome assemblies. Molecular Ecology Resources, 00, e13955. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13955 GET DATA: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wh70rxwvb

This table provides the relationships between building outlines within mainland New Zealand when buildings are split or merged. A building outline is a 2D representation of the roof outline of a building which has been classified from LINZ aerial imagery using a combination of automated and manual processes to extract and refine a building roof outline. **Data vintage** This dataset does not include building outline geometry, but provides the linkages between building_id's from different aerial imagery sources in the [NZ Building Outlines (All Sources)](https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/101292) dataset when building outlines change from single outlines split into multiple outlines, and from multiple outlines merged as single outlines. This dataset will be updated with changes in building_id relationships as new aerial imagery becomes available. Please refer to the [NZ Building Outlines Data Dictionary](https://nz-buildings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html) for detailed metadata and information about this dataset. **Related building outlines data** [NZ Building Outlines (All Sources)](https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/101292) - directly related to this dataset, it contains all combinations of building outlines from multiple years of imagery that have existed since the beginning of this dataset. [NZ Building Outlines](https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/101290) - provides current building outlines only derived from the latest LINZ aerial imagery.

The mooring was deployed from February 2017 through February 2018 at 74.97° S, 163.96° E, approximately 7km east of the Nansen Ice Shelf in a region of TNB. The purpose of this study was to utilize data from a uniquely positioned and densely instrumented mooring to calculate HSSW production rates in TNB from continuous, in-situ observations. Moored instrumentation consisted of 7 SeaBird Electronics conductivity and temperature (SBE37-SM/SMP MicroCAT) sensors at depths of 47, 95, 119, 144, 168, 219, and 360 m and an upward-facing 600 kHz Nortek Acoustic Wave and Current (AWAC) profiler at 37 m depth, collecting both current velocity profiles in the upper ~35 m of the water column as well as Acoustic Surface Tracking (AST) measurements. Temperature and salinity measurements were validated against a shipboard conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) cast performed upon deployment of the mooring. Temperature and salinity at 47 m and 95 m were additionally validated against a CTD cast performed upon recovery of the mooring. Full details of methods can be found in https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43880-1 GET DATA: ukm2103@columbia.edu

Index Tiles ONLY, for actual orthophotos see layer [Bay of Plenty 0.2m Rural Aerial Photos (2023-2024)](http://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/117551) Orthophotography within the Bay of Plenty Region captured in the flying season of 2023-2024. Coverage encompasses the Bay of Plenty Region. Imagery was captured for National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research by Woolpert NZ Ltd (formerly AAM NZ Ltd), 6 Ossian St, Napier, New Zealand. Data comprises: • 372 ortho-rectified RGB GeoTIFF images in NZTM projection, tiled into the LINZ Standard 1:5000 tile layout. • Tile layout in NZTM projection containing relevant information. The supplied imagery is in terms of New Zealand Transverse Mercator (NZTM) map projection. Imagery supplied as 20cm pixel resolution (0.2m GSD), 3-band (RGB) uncompressed GeoTIFF. The final spatial accuracy is ±1 at 68% confidence level in clear flat areas. Also available on: • [Basemaps](https://basemaps.linz.govt.nz/@-37.7965560,176.7481607,z9.51?i=bay-of-plenty-2023-2024-0.2m) • [NZ Imagery - Registry of Open Data on AWS](https://registry.opendata.aws/nz-imagery/)

This metadata record represents the first direct comparison of seismic and ultrasonic data with measured crystallographic preferred orientations Crystallographic preferred orientations (CPO) in a polar shear margin (Priestly Glacier, Antarctica). Analyses of seismic, ultrasonic and measured CPO datasets were combined to assess the potential of active-source seismic surveys for the constraint of shear margin anisotropy, which provide an assessment of ice flow dynamics and stability. A continuous ice core of 58 m length was drilled and recovered in December 2019 and January 2020 in a lateral shear margin of the Priestley Glacier, located in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Core samples were analysed for CPO using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) measurements. The core orientation was carefully preserved during drilling, which enabled azimuthal orientation of the CPO. To complete the link between seismic anisotropy of the ice volume around the borehole and CPO measurements from the core, multi-azimuthal ultrasonic velocity measurements were made on core samples in the laboratory. The vertical-seismic-profile (VSP) dataset was recorded at the Priestley drill site using a three-component borehole seismometer to investigate seismic properties and anisotropy within the glacier ice. Additionally, multi-azimuthal ultrasonic velocity measurements were conducted on core samples in the laboratory, complementing the seismic data analysis. Further details are provided at: Lutz, F., Prior, D.J., Still, H., Hamish Bowman, M., Boucinhas, B., Craw, L., Fan, S., Kim, D., Mulvaney, R., Thomas, R.E., & Hulbe, C.L. (2022). Ultrasonic and seismic constraints on crystallographic preferred orientations of the Priestley Glacier shear margin, Antarctica. *Cryosphere*, 16(8), 3313-3329. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3313-2022 GET DATA: https://auckland.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Priestley_Glacier_seismic_and_ultrasonic_constraints_on_crystallographic_orientation/17108639