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Claire Concannon
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.
RNZ Programmes
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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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Wild Sounds
Wild Sounds is RNZ's new podcast feed dedicated to incredible natural science stories from NZ
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Voice of the Sea Ice
Step out onto a frozen landscape with New Zealand researchers investigating the future of Antarctica.
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Search results for Claire Concannon
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Stories from Our Changing World: What powers New Zealand?
27 Aug 2025Time for Our Changing World, and we're catching up with Claire Concannon, who has been looking into the different energy sources New Zealand, and what this might look like in the future. Audio
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Powering New Zealand
26 Aug 2025Gas shortages, a reversal of the ban of offshore oil and gas exploration, and a government plan to double geothermal energy in the next 15 years… There’s been a lot in the news recently about New… Audio
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Stories from Our Changing World: Long term health
20 Aug 2025Claire Concannon has been investigating New Zealand's youth vaping rates, and what the long-term health impacts might be on our rangitahi. She heads to the Auckland Bioengineering Institute to learn… Audio
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New Zealand's youth vaping rates
19 Aug 2025Our youth vaping rates are among the highest in the world. How did we get here and what will this mean for the future of our rangitahi? A 2018 court case paved the way for a loose regulatory start for… Audio
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The science behind non-alcoholic beer
Time now for Our Changing World, and we're catching up with host Claire Concannon in person this week. Claire explains to Jesse how she found an excuse to go to a brewery for work. Audio
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The science of non-alcoholic beer
12 Aug 2025More and more of us are reaching for low or no-alcohol beers. As the market grows, the options are also expanding - but brewing beer without alcohol fermentation presents a tricky puzzle. In… Audio
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Project Tongariro and Greening Taupo Day
6 Aug 2025This week for Our Changing World, we're doing things a little differently and we catch up with Claire Concannon in person! Claire has been out and about in the central North Island learning about a… Audio
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Introducing: Voice of the Iceberg
6 Aug 2025Artist Joseph Michael and his team record the characters and sounds of icebergs in Antarctica as he prepares for a major art installation. Audio
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Turning Taupo green
5 Aug 2025Project Tongariro was established as a living memorial for five people who died in a tragic helicopter accident. Last November, the project turned 40 years old. Over those four decades, activities… Audio
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Our Changing World: Small lanternfish in a big ocean
23 Jul 2025On Our Changing World, Claire Concannon speaks to Victoria University of Wellington’s Professor Jeff Shima about a small deep-sea fish that could play a massive role in both the oceanic food web, and… Audio
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The dance of the lanternfish
22 Jul 2025During World War II, sonar operators discovered a ‘false seabed’ that appeared to move upwards during the nighttime. In fact, the sound waves were bouncing off huge numbers of small critters. This… Audio
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Stories from Our Changing World: A NZ approach to fusion.
In the core of the sun atoms fuse together releasing huge amounts of energy. If scientists can figure out how to do it efficiently here on Earth, fusion holds great promise as a solution to our future… Audio
