 Good afternoon, this is Howard Wake with Think Tech Hawaii. My program is cold green. Today the theme is plastics, plastics everywhere. And my guest is Dr. Jan Hefner of SOEST, the science department at UH Manoa, who has been studying the implications of plastics in the ocean for many, many years. Dr. Hefner was born in what's now the Czech Republic and got his equivalent of an MA there and then went to University of Alabama at Huntsville where he did his PhD work and his postdoc work. Dr. Hefner, welcome, welcome. Today's theme, marine debris, is a huge problem. We've all seen images of whales and dolphins tangled up and even seals get tangled up. We can bring an image of a seal on. There. See, that guy looks rather unhappy. Every year, thousands, probably tens of thousands of marine creatures get tangled up in marine debris. But the problem is much, much, much larger than just the images that we see. That is literally the tip of the iceberg. Dr. Hefner, would you?