Nurdles

Curt identifies plastic pellets from a toy washed up along the beach and explains how plastic has made its way into the food chain.

Flotsam Found

Curt appears on the PBS program Wired Science to explain how ocean currents carry objects from ships to shores.

Swordfish Tears

Curt identifies lightsticks used for swordfishing as "swordfish tears."

Bryozoans

On the beach in Florida, Curt examines a collection of flotsam and explains how it all circles the world.

Science Friday (NPR): Curt talks to Ira Plato on NPR’s All Things Considered about flotsametrics, flaoting debris, and the nature of charting currents. Listen at NPR.org.

CBC Radio interview: Curt talks to CBC News Morning’s Harry Forestell about thousands of bath toys that traveled from a 1992 spill in the Pacific to the shores of the Atlantic.

Flotsam Hour 3/07: Curt on the March 2007 edition of the Flotsam Hour from KUOW radio, Seattle.

Flotsam Hour 6/06: Curt on the July 2006 edition of the Flotsam Hour from KUOW radio, Seattle.

Flotsam Hour 2/06: Curt on the February 2006 edition of the Flotsam Hour from KUOW radio, Seattle.

Flotsam Hour 4/05: Curt on the April 2005 edition of the Flotsam Hour from KUOW radio, Seattle.

Flotsam Hour 4/04: Curt on the April 2004 edition of the Flotsam Hour from KUOW radio, Seattle.

Flotsam Hour 11/03: Curt on the November 2003 edition of the Flotsam Hour from KUOW radio, Seattle.