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Claire Concannon

Host of Our Changing World, Wild Sounds, Voice of the Sea Ice

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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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  • Project Tongariro and Greening Taupo Day

    science environment
    6 Aug 2025

    This 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

  • Introducing: Voice of the Iceberg

    environment
    6 Aug 2025

    Artist Joseph Michael and his team record the characters and sounds of icebergs in Antarctica as he prepares for a major art installation. Audio

  • Turning Taupo green

    5 Aug 2025

    Project 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

    science environment
    23 Jul 2025

    On 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

  • The dance of the lanternfish

    22 Jul 2025

    During 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

  • Stories from Our Changing World: A NZ approach to fusion.

    science climate
    16 Jul 2025

    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

  • Our Changing World A New Zealand approach to nuclear fusion

    15 Jul 2025

    For a long time, nuclear fusion was viewed as a powerful, but unachievable, energy source, because the technological challenges were just too great. But recent advances, particularly in the… Audio

  • Our Changing World: Our rarest freshwater fish

    science conservation
    2 Jul 2025

    Our Changing World heads to the Mackenzie region in the South Island to meet one of New Zealand’s rarest fish – the lowland longjaw galaxias.  

    Dean Nelson, a senior biodiversity ranger at the… Audio

  • Our Changing World: Training our immune systems

    science health
    25 Jun 2025

    While tuberculosis is not a major health issue in New Zealand, worldwide it remains the leading infectious disease killer.  

    The vaccine against tuberculosis, called BCG, was first developed in… Audio

  • Our Changing World New Insights from an Old Vaccine

    24 Jun 2025

    The story of tuberculosis goes back to the start of recorded human history, and since the 1800s it’s estimated it has been responsible for over 1 billion deaths. In New Zealand today we don’t have… Audio

  • Introducing: Voice of the Kākāpō

    11 Jun 2025

    Claire Concannon introduces you to the next series from Wild Sounds. Host by Alison Ballance, hear the adventure through the bumpy bumper 2019 breeding season of NZ's rare flightless parrot. Audio

  • Tracking turtles

    10 Jun 2025

    In late 2024 a cluster of sick green sea turtles washed up around the Rangaunu Harbour on the east coast of the Far North. It was just another mystery in a long line of all the things we don’t know… Audio