1: They're Also Called Nurdles

We learn all about microplastics and discuss an interesting business plan for the Chicago area.

Show Notes

For a rough transcript of this show, please visit https://github.com/jscarlton/teachgreatlakes/blob/master/episode-1/tmatgl-1-transcript.markdown

Today’s hosts:

• Stuart Carlton | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
• Hope Charters | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant 

Today’s guests:

• Sarah Zack | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
• Carolyn Foley | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

Links

• Great Lakes Pollution Prevention (@GreatLakesP2) | Twitter
• Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (@ILINSeaGrant) | Twitter
• Hope’s personal feed (@hopekyra) | Twitter
• Sarah's personal feed (@SarahAZack) | Twitter
• xkcd: Hand Sanitizer
• Mold-A-Rama - Wikipedia
• A meta-analysis of the effects of exposure to microplastics on fish and aquatic invertebrates - ScienceDirect
• Curriculum for teachers: What is the impact of beach litter?

Other credits

Podcast theme by Stuart Carlton. Interstitial music provided by Pepouni and by audionautix.com, both under a Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported  — CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

Creators and Guests

Host

Carolyn Foley

Host

Stuart Carlton

Stuart Carlton is the Director of the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program.

What is Teach Me About the Great Lakes?

A monthly podcast in which Stuart Carlton (a native New Orleanian) asks smart people to teach him about the Great Lakes. Co-hosted by the awesome staff at Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant.