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Claire Concannon
Host of Our Changing World
Dr Claire Concannon has a PhD in biochemistry. She moved to New Zealand from Ireland in 2017 to work as a science communicator at Otago Museum before joining RNZ in 2021.
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Our Changing World
Stories about science and nature from out in the field and inside the labs across Aotearoa New Zealand. Winner 2022 New Zealand Radio Awards Best Factual Podcast - Episodic
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Search results for Claire Concannon
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Understanding our nearshore island volcanoes - Whakaari and Tūhua
9 May 2024A multi-year research project aims to find out the risks from two Bay of Plenty offshore island volcanoes: Tūhua / Mayor Island and Whakaari / White Island Video, Audio
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The 2023 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes: Communicating volcano science and sampling soils
2 May 2024Meet two winners of the 2023 Prime Ministers Science Prizes. In the wake of the 2019 Whakaari eruption, Professor Ben Kennedy engaged communities with the science of volcano hazards – mahi that earns… Audio
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Our Changing World for 3:35pm Wednesday 1st May 2024
1 May 2024Coming up on Our Changing World, Claire Concannon meets a team using board games to communicate about volcanic hazards. Audio
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Turning the tide – what it takes to take out rats
Kate Evans visits a passionate team as they carpet a remote volcanic island in Tonga with poisoned bait, hoping to eradicate rats. What does it take to complete this kind of project, what are the… Audio
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Summer 34 – Three decades of albatross research
18 Apr 2024Journalist Rebekah White meets two people who have been counting albatrosses on remote islands in the subantarctic for more than three decades. Their research shows that at least one species is en… Video, Audio
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Taking on water - marine protection in Aotearoa
11 Apr 2024New Zealand once led the world in marine protection. Now it looks like we will fail to meet our international promise to protect 30 percent of our ocean estate by 2030. Why is stopping fishing so… Audio
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A tale of two islands – erect-crested penguins
4 Apr 2024The Bounty Islands are tiny in terms of area – just some bits of granite jutting out of the ocean. But they are huge in terms of seabirds. James Frankham joins a team researching the erect-crested… Audio
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Our Changing World – Erect-crested penguins
3 Apr 2024Erect-crested penguins lead largely unknown lives on some of New Zealand's most remote subantarctic islands. A research team travels south to unlock this enigmatic species' secrets. Audio
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The mystery of how godwits sleep in flight
Kuaka bar-tailed godwits make the longest non-stop flights, and researchers are using hi-tech tags to solve the mystery of how and when they sleep. Audio
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Our Changing World – Can godwits fly and sleep?
27 Mar 2024Kuaka godwits make the longest non-stop flights, and researchers are using hi-tech tags to solve the mystery of how and when they sleep. Audio
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The stuff of life - Carbon capture in our ocean ecosystems
21 Mar 2024What roles do our ocean ecosystems play in capturing carbon? Kate Evans speaks to iwi Māori working to improve the health of an estuary in the Bay of Plenty, and to scientists studying the fiords of… Audio
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Our Changing World – Fiordland’s secrets
20 Mar 2024What roles do our ocean ecosystems play in capturing carbon? Kate Evans speaks to scientists studying the fiords of New Zealand’s southwest coast. There’s potential for huge amounts of carbon to be… Audio