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Claire Concannon

Host of Our Changing World, Wild Sounds: Voice of the Sea Ice, 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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  • The Chatham Island tui translocation

    3 Jun 2025

    One from the archives! By the 1990s Chatham Island tÅ«Ä« had all but disappeared from the main island. Slightly different to their mainland counterparts these songbirds had survived on nearby Pitt and… Audio

  • Dissecting the world's rarest whale

    22 May 2025

    How do you go about dissecting the world’s rarest whale? In December 2024, images from a concrete room in Mosgiel, just south of Dunedin, spread around the world as a team of people spent a week… Audio

  • Our Changing World: The spade-toothed whale

    science environment
    21 May 2025

    Last year, a rare and mysterious spade-toothed whale washed up south of Ōtepoti Dunedin, sparking massive interest and news headlines around the world.  

    We join Claire Concannon at the week-long… Audio

  • The missing black petrels of Great Barrier Island

    12 May 2025

    For nearly 30 years, researchers have been banding black petrel fledglings before they make their maiden migration to Ecuador. Only a handful of birds have ever come back. RNZ’s In Depth reporter… Audio

  • Our Changing World: Professor Jemma Geoghegan on communicating science

    science covid-19
    7 May 2025

    Claire Concannon sits down with Professor Jemma Geoghegan, winner of the Prime Minister's Te Puiaki Whakapā Pūtaiao Science Communication Prize, to chat about Covid-19, bird flu and her virology lab.

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  • The 2024 Prime Minister’s Science Prize winners

    6 May 2025

    Each year five Prime Minister’s Science Prizes are awarded in the most prestigious New Zealand science awards. We explore the AgResearch science that got the top recognition this year and catch up… Audio

  • Fiordland's underwater world

    1 May 2025

    Coming up, Our Changing World joins a research expedition in Fiordland studying it’s iconic black corals. Audio

  • Our Changing World: Fiordland's black corals

    science environment
    30 Apr 2025

    Join Claire Concannon aboard the DOC research vessel Southern Winds.  

    Claire is with a team from Victoria University of Wellington, led by Professor James Bell, studying Fiordland’s underwater… Audio

  • Helping New Zealand's demure native orchids

    24 Apr 2025

    Cooper’s orchid is New Zealand’s rarest and most elusive - with fewer than 250 plants left in the wild. It belongs to the group of potato orchids, which grow mostly as tubers, except for a brief… Audio

  • Our Changing World's Claire Concannon

    science
    23 Apr 2025

    Emile Donovan is joined by the brain behind Our Changing World, RNZ's premiere science podcast, Audio

  • Our Changing World: Orchid conservation

    science conservation
    23 Apr 2025

    Our Changing World joins a group of botanists during their first ever attempt to reintroduce our rarest and most elusive native orchid back to the wild.

    New Zealand’s native orchids are much more… Audio

  • Eloise Gibson on combatting climate change

    22 Apr 2025

    Claire Concannon spoke to RNZ's climate correspondent Eloise Gibson for the last episode of the Voice of the Sea Ice series. Listen to the full interview between Eloise and Claire in which they talk… Audio