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Our Changing World

Dr Claire Concannon follows scientists into the bush, over rivers, back to their labs and many places in-between to cover the most fascinating research being done in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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00:28:31

Finding faults and eavesdropping on earthquakes

Our Changing World ·

2022/02/23

Alison Ballance catches up with two earthquake researchers. Geologist Carolyn Boulton is a "fault finder", interested in how faults slide. And geophysicist Martha Savage eavesdrops on the earth to better understand why earthquakes do what they do.

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00:29:53

Multi-talented macroalgae

Our Changing World ·

2022/02/16

Claire visits a macroalgae research facility in Tauranga to learn how and why the team there are growing large quantities of seaweed and freshwater macroalgae.

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00:30:14

Honey fingerprints and plant powers

Our Changing World ·

2022/02/09

Claire learns about honey fingerprinting while Katy Gosset meets a scientist studying the anti-microbial properties of some native plants.

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00:30:08

Hunting for meteorites

Our Changing World ·

2022/02/02

Claire Concannon joins a meteorite hunt on the South Island's West Coast and learns what these rocks from space can tell us about the early formation of our solar system.

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00:26:08

Tuning in to nature

Our Changing World ·

2022/01/26

The story of titipounamu, New Zealand's smallest bird, on Otago Peninsula, told by Karthic SS, a wildlife film maker and podcast producer based in Dunedin.

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00:30:38

Summer Science: Voices - To spray or not to spray

Our Changing World ·

2022/01/19

Summer science continues with a play of a science related episode from RNZ's Voices podcast. In 'To spray or not to spray' we meet Tim Vandervoet as he investigates ways to reduce insecticide use in orchards.

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00:14:33

Summer Science: What's in the water? All about the Pb...

Our Changing World ·

2022/01/12

Centre for Science Communication student Laura McDonald speaks to Dr. Mike Palin about lead contamination in the environment.

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00:43:42

Summer Science: Black Sheep - Invasive: the story of...

Our Changing World ·

2022/01/05

Summer science continues with a play of a science related episode from RNZ's Black Sheep podcast. Invasive tells the story of one man who released thousands of invasive fish into New Zealand's rivers, lakes and streams. Programme Code

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00:13:05

Summer Science: There's something in the water

Our Changing World ·

2021/12/29

Centre for Science Communication student William Bowden speaks to Dr. Mike Joy & Dr. Tim Chambers about the issue of nitrates in New Zealand's waterways.

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00:30:16

Unwelcome visitors

Our Changing World ·

2021/12/22

How to deal with unwelcome visitors. Katy Gosset learns about a native fungus that might help in the battle against wilding pines. And two national research programmes combine on an expedition to protect our oceans from plastics and invasive species.

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00:29:05

Using chemistry to uncover the past

Our Changing World ·

2021/12/15

Chemical isotope analysis is a powerful technique - Dr. Charlotte King explains to Claire how she uses it to reconstruct past lives of forgotten people from the Otago gold rush.

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00:03:58

Introducing Sci Fi Sci Fact

Our Changing World ·

2021/12/09

Sci Fi / Sci Fact is a new podcast series in which scientists from New Zealand's MacDiarmid Institute talk to RNZ host Bryan Crump about whether some of science-fiction's most popular concepts could actually come true.

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00:30:14

Keeping an eye on river flow

Our Changing World ·

2021/12/08

Two stories on keeping an eye on river flow - helping fish to migrate back upstream, and development of a national river flow forecasting tool.

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00:27:19

Listening to the hum of the Alpine Fault

Our Changing World ·

2021/12/01

A team of scientists are installing an array of seismic sensors along the South Island's Alpine Fault. Claire Concannon joins them to find out how and why.

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00:26:08

Restoration - battling predators and planting trees

Our Changing World ·

2021/11/24

Katy Gosset speaks to a PhD student designing new tech to catch predators and Claire Concannon meets the team who are working to restore a unique landscape on the South Island's West Coast.

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00:27:14

100 years of radio and the spectrum of light

Our Changing World ·

2021/11/17

On the 100th anniversary of radio in Aotearoa, Claire Concannon learns about the very first broadcast, explores how radio works, and finds out about current research into communicating using light.

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00:28:06

Sniffing out cancer

Our Changing World ·

2021/11/10

Claire visits the team at K9 Medical Detection Charitable Trust to learn how their dogs are being trained to detect bowel and prostate cancer.

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00:28:53

Totara treasure hunt

Our Changing World ·

2021/11/03

Claire Concannon hits the Central Otago hills with Botany PhD student Ben Teele to imagine the landscape as it use to be, and to follow the clues to find leftover pockets of tōtara trees.

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00:30:10

Favourite plants

Our Changing World ·

2021/10/27

Claire Concannon hears how the the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network's favourite plant competition is shaping up, while Katy Gosset learns about research to improve the quality and growth efficiency of grapevines.

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00:28:47

The details behind the data

Our Changing World ·

2021/10/20

This week on Our Changing World, Aotearoa Science Agency's Damian Christie speaks to three scientists about the world of data.

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