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Our Changing World Programme Catalogue
This page provides audio on demand access to all available items from Our Changing World, dating back to the programme’s inception on 22 September 2005.
The spur for making this back catalogue available was an agreement signed in 2007 between Radio New Zealand and Waikato University, which runs the Biotechnology Learning Hub and the Science Learning Hub. These online databases provide specialised access to the programme content for teachers and school pupils throughout New Zealand.
Audio from new programmes is added on an ongoing basis after broadcast.
- Thursday, 18 March 2010
- A new series on the Chatham Islands features South East Island, using sound to measure the density of kiwi fruit, part one of a story on Chris Simon and cicadas, and synaptic connections of neurons.
- Thursday, 11 March 2010
- Prime Minister's Science Prize co-winner Jeff Tallon from IRL on superconductors; monitoring the Heathcote Estaury to measure the effect of the new wastewater diversion; the Australia-New Zealand Whale Research Expedition; the New Zealand Human Brain Bank.
- Thursday, 04 March 2010
- Greening Waipara - ecologists and vineyards collaborate to increase biodiversity; mast seeding in snow tussocks; solving chemical equations using a supercomputer; developing enzyme inhibitors to cure diseases from malaria to gout.
- Thursday, 25 February 2010
- Developing beneficial soil fungi products to improve the growth of plants; setting up an ecological experiment to test the role of millipedes in native forest; the sound of an earthquake and developing geothermal resources; new treatments for strokes.
- Thursday, 18 February 2010
- A Bose-Einstein Condensate is created in the lab; the New Zealand Biotron; electrical activity of the stomach, and tracing taro around the globe
- Thursday, 11 February 2010
- Tracing plants like cannabis using forensic science, the black stilt captive breeding programme near Twizel, New Zealand native trees, and viruses inside crystals.
- Thursday, 04 February 2010
- MRI and imaging the heart with Alistair Young; Project River Recovery in the Mackenzie Basin; GNS Science geology summer school; forensic science part 2 - identifying threatened wildlife being used in traditional medicine.
- Thursday, 28 January 2010
- JOIDES Resolution deep-sea drilling ship; short-haired bumblebee poject with Nikki Gammans; cell membranes with Duncan McGillivray; ESR forensic science part 1 - aging stains.
- Thursday, 24 December 2009
- Godwits part two - the godwits have been caught and data loggers are being retrieved; how the brain remembers past and future events; a mathematician looks at the role calcium plays in the lungs, saliva secretion and asthma; the Asian paddle crab is a new, aggressive introduction in Auckland waters.
- Thursday, 17 December 2009
- Cannon netting godwits at the Manawatu Estuary; how x-ray crystallography is used today; the potential of adult stem cells to cure corneal disease; and how sea cucumbers could be used to clean up under mussel farms.
- Thursday, 10 December 2009
- Andy Reisinger on latest climate change science; Hugh Blair on sheep foetal programming; looking at yellow-eyed penguin deaths and capture myopathy in godwits at Wildlife Health Centre; and how crab larvae use sound to choose where to live.
- Thursday, 03 December 2009
- Using biofilms to measure a stream's health and test Hubbell's neutral theory; ice core drilling on the Greenland ice cap; how a pregnant woman's diet may impact her daughter's age of puberty; and recording the sounds made by fish.
- Thursday, 26 November 2009
- Entomologist John Early from Auckland Museum on insects in the collection; Massey University's Shane Cronin and colleagues talk about lahars, the Auckland volcano field, and explosive eruptions; and Leigh Marine Laboratory's Andrew Jeffs on crayfish larvae.
- Thursday, 19 November 2009
- A tour of clinical drug making facility GlycoSyn; why tectonic plates lock and the implications for earthquake prediction;award-winning author Neville Peat talks about nature writing, and Leigh Marine Lab's Craig Radford on the sounds made by creatures living on rocky reefs
- Thursday, 12 November 2009
- The first story in an ocean science series at the University of Auckland’s Leigh Marine Laboratory; dissecting human bodies at the University of Otago’s medical school; biomineralisation and how scientists are trying to replicate the process, and using an ion implanter to make new materials with nanowhiskers.
- Thursday, 05 November 2009
- Biofilters that use bacteria in volcanic soils to eat methane; the Pupu micro-hydro scheme and feed-in tariffs for distributed energy generation; food and skin induced allergic reactions; and anarchy genes and altruism genes in bees.
- Thursday, 29 October 2009
- Analysing the different flavours and aromas of apples to produce new varieties; using DNA techniques to analyse the evolution of medieval texts; a new biological x-ray tomography microscope; and the microbes that live in the gut of honeydew scale insects.
- Thursday, 22 October 2009
- Astronauts, the elderly and how the body's balance system regulates brain blood flow, using molecular markers to genetically screen plants, the ecology of honeydew, and sampling marine larvae in Antarctica.
- Thursday, 15 October 2009
- Ajay Kupar builds, and performs with, musical robots; Olin Pilcher gives a tour of the Cawthron Institute's new Pacific oyster hatchery; NIWA's Stuart Hanchet provides a fisheries biologist perspective to the Antarctic toothfish fishery; Robert Weinkove is developing a new therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
- Thursday, 08 October 2009
- Grant Norbury and a new giant skink reserve near Alexandra; Glenn McGregor on climate change, heat waves and human health; Tim Molteno and Keith Payne are developing novel animal tags using GPS and mobile phone networks; and Matthew Gerrie leads the Innocence Project NZ.
- Thursday, 01 October 2009
- Simon Cox from GNS on the aftermath of the big Fiordland earthquake; Juliet Sutherland and Douglas Rosendale from Plant and Food on gut flora; Victoria University's Matt Gers and Ben Jeffares on memes and memetics; John Flenley on Easter Island pollen.
- Thursday, 24 September 2009
- Vet Kerri Morgan and the animal patients at the New Zealand Wildlife Health Centre; a booster broccoli with high glucosinolates; using the Australian Synchrotron to test for selenium in broccoli; and wildlife photographer Tui de Roy's new Galapagos Islands book.
- Thursday, 17 September 2009
- Conservation Week and Karori Sanctuary volunteers; at the Sleep/Wake Centre Ruth Beran finds out how sleep is measured and why they are testing long-haul airline pilots and pregnant women; tree planting and predator trapping with the Nelson branch of Forest and Bird.
- Thursday, 10 September 2009
- Massey University's Mike Joy talks about freshwater fish and river pollution, Ashton Partridge from Massey University, and Richard Tilley and Justin Hodgkiss from Victoria University, are developing printable solar cells, and John Kendrick, the man behind the Morning Report bird calls.
- Thursday, 03 September 2009
- Kevin Burns' hypothesis that the now extinct moa influenced how the native lancewood grows; IRL's new way of capturing carbon dioxide; and Otago University researchers working out how animals move, and using that knowledge to develop computer and biomechanical models, and even robots.
- Thursday, 27 August 2009
- John Watt is 2009 MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year for nano-crystal research; Te Papa's new vertebrate Collection Facility; GNS Science research on air particulates using a particle accelerator; Julia Horsfield on the University of Otago's new zebrafish facility.
- Thursday, 20 August 2009
- Small-scale distributed electricity generation with Massey University and IRL; ice core drilling in the Southern Alps with GNS Science; Crustacea and NIWA's Marine Invertebrate Collection; how radio works with RNZ's Matthew Finn.
- Thursday, 13 August 2009
- Jim Johnston's Victoria University team are using the colour-changing properties of quantum nanodots for ink-jet printing; Te Papa’s Andrew Stewart and NIWA’s Dennis Gordon talk about the New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity; Leo Schep from the National Poisons Centre on New Zealand’s venomous creatures; Jacqui Horswell, Tom Speir and Andrew Van Schaik from ESR on biosolids, and applying them to land.
- Thursday, 06 August 2009
- Malaria with Colin Sutherland; Dallas Mildenhall uses pollen to track fake pharmaceuticals; Dillon Mayhew explains his love of mathematical constructs called matroids; Peter Dearden on how honeybees can produce two morphologies from a single genome.
- Thursday, 30 July 2009
- Hamish Spencer and Diane Paul on cousin marriage; Dallas Mildenhall on forensic palynology; restoring Resolution and Secretary islands in Fiordland; Ken Ryan and microorganisms in Antarctic sea ice.
- Thursday, 23 July 2009
- Green chemistry with Mary Kirchoff and Emma Dangerfield; NIWA's Mark Morrison on land-based impacts on coastal fisheries; Department of Conservation's stoat trapping efforts to save takahe in Fiordland; John Watling on how chemical signatures can help trace the origins of substances and solve crimes.
- Thursday, 16 July 2009
- A Fiordland kiwi hunt with Jane Tansell; high temperature superconductors with Bob Buckley; great white sharks with Malcolm Francis and Clinton Duffy.
- Thursday, 09 July 2009
- In the soundtrack from the film Oops, Wrong Planet, Australian film-maker Stephen Ramsey goes in search of people living with Asperger syndrome.
- Thursday, 02 July 2009
- Takahe rearing unit at Burwood Bush; retrospective on New Zealand's role in International Polar Year; lakes and rivers under Antarctic ice, and rates of melting in polar regions; Fulvio Melia on super-massive black holes.
- Thursday, 25 June 2009
- Short-tailed bats in Fiordland; Square Kilometre Array; radio astronomy; mammal family tree.
- Thursday, 18 June 2009
- Operation Ark in Fiordland's Eglinton Valley; Mt Johns MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics) telescope; the BOOTES-3 gamma-ray telescope in a Marlborough vineyard; history of the Otago Medical School.
- Thursday, 11 June 2009
- Dennis Sullivan on white dwarfs and the death of stars; Phil Bishop explains chytrid disease in native frogs; fossils from a volcanic crater in Otago; long-lived deepsea corals and paleaoclimates.
- Thursday, 04 June 2009
- The history of optical astronomy in New Zealand; a discussion about iron fertilisation of the oceans; an update on the list of threatened birds; and the impact of a global warming event 50 million years ago.
- Thursday, 28 May 2009
- Regenerative medicine and the possibility of growing new body parts; Marcus Chown and the weird world of quantum theory; Wally Broecker on ways of dealing with rising greenhouse gas levels; Matt McGlone on how climate warming will affect New Zealand biodiversity.
- Thursday, 21 May 2009
- Larval dispersal of marine organisms; chemical sensors for managing chronic disease; searching the Kapiti Coast for fungi; and the comeback of southern right whales.
- Thursday, 14 May 2009
- Decline in Gibson's wandering albatross numbers; using nano-materials to generate electricity from waste heat; evolution of flowers and understanding invasive plant species; tuberculosis in humans and cattle.
- Thursday, 07 May 2009
- New Zealand sea lions in the subantarctic; nanotechnology - Annie Powell on copying biology; more on new Zealand ferns; George Denton on the history of Earth's ice ages.
- Thursday, 30 April 2009
- Julie McPherson on carbon nano-wires; Peter McClelland on introduced mammals in the subantartic; Patrick Brownsey and Leon Perrie on New Zealand ferns; Stephen Robertson on rare genetic diseases.
- Thursday, 23 April 2009
- Day-to-day routines in looking after kakapo on Codfish Island; Adelie penguin genetics; Richard Holdaway on moa extinctions; and royal albatrosses on Campbell Island.
- Thursday, 16 April 2009
- Mitigating visitor impacts on subantarctic Campbell Island; rivers and fish genetics; the Oligocene drowning; and Einstein's Universe.
Favourites
A selection of favourites from the Our Changing World team
3 November 2005: Charles Fleming, naturalist; Wellington's artificial reef; the YHA Young Conservationist Awards; NZ soils and selenium deficiency.
16 February 2006: Oceans and climate; wind energy; the Canterbury Cancer Network and their multi-disciplinary cancer centre concept.
18 May 2006: Evolution in trees; the vertebrate nervous system; the kakapo supplementary food; the National Addiction Centre.
21 September 2006: Cosmologist Beatrice Hill Tinsley; protecting surfaces from microbial fouling; Dactylanthus taylorii, one of NZ’s most unusual plants; genetic changes and breast cancer.
05 October 2006: Nano-particles that could help with the early detection of cancer; projectile vomiting snow petrel; the Fungal Herbarium at Landcare Research; the efficacy of asthma medication.
15 February 2007: Antarctica's historic huts; 2006 Hamilton Memorial Prize recipient and research into the foetal origins of adult disease; non-lethal methods of studying whale population dynamics.
29 March 2007: Ice cores; climate change; physics of clouds and rain; elder care.
19 April 2007: Southern Hemisphere's first ice core research facility; Argentine ants; tracing human migration using fossil pig DNA; lipo-protein and vascular disease.
30 August 2007: Richard Taylor, physicist with a passion for art and fractals; hatchlings of the very rare Brother’s Island tuatara; a fungus that could become the source of high-value bioactive ingredients; how lifestyle changes can help us live healthier and longer lives.
01 November 2007: Ancient DNA research using material from Egyptian ibis mummies; native bats, echolocation and navigation using the Earth's magnetic field.
06 December 2007: Skinks; agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation; Bose-Einstein condensates and ultra-cold atoms; bridging the gap between medical research and clinical practice.
3 April 2008: Yellow-eyed penguins; shark conservation, research and tagging.
10 April 2008: Frogs; bioplastics; Exercise Ruaumoko; butterflies.
17 April 2008: Exploring Antarctica Festival; butterflies; scientific journals; Giant Cook Strait weta.
01 May 2008: The colossal squid at Te Papa; biosecurity at Karori Wildlife Sanctuary.
06 November 2008: The love songs of Weddell seals; a long-term starling study; Auckland's volcanic field; geological mapping.
18 December 2008: NZ's rarest breeding bird, the Fairy terns; kokako on Tiritiri Matangi Island and kokako dialects; how mice arrived in New Zealand.
12 February 2009: Celebrations marking two centuries since Charles Darwin's birth; the importance of rimu fruit for breeding success in kakapo.
Most popular
25 June 2009: Short-tailed bats in Fiordland; Square Kilometre Array; radio astronomy; mammal family tree.
19 March 2009: Sediment cores from Antarctica reveal changes in ice cover; a mission to find jewelled geckos on Otago Peninsula; genetic methods help unravel the evolution of Austronesian languages; mohua population studies.
23 July 2009: Green chemistry; land-based impacts on coastal fisheries; stoat trapping efforts to save takahe in Fiordland; how chemical signatures can help trace the origins of substances and solve crimes.
21 May 2009: Larval dispersal of marine organisms; chemical sensors for managing chronic disease; searching the Kapiti Coast for fungi; and the comeback of southern right whales.
3 July 2008: Census of marine creatures; plastic drinking bottles; carbon offsetting; Canterbury natural history.
28 August 2008: Science of winemaking; Wellington regional science fair; Charles Fleming lecture; possums in Australia.
13 September 2007: An Australian car-sharing service; the long-term effects of in vitro fertilisation; bird species that outsource their parenting duties; KODE biotechnology firm.
14 August 2008: MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year; Alzheimer's research; self-assembly in emulsions; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
21 August 2008: Robotic kiwi fruit picker; Bob Kerr paintings of Harold Wellman's life; Makara Foreshore Reserve; photographer Tui de Roy on albatrosses.
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