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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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  • 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

  • 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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