Dr. Rip''s Essential Beach Book - Everything You Need to Know About Surf, Sand, and Safety

Australia's best-known surf scientist, Rob "Dr. Rip" Brander, takes readers on a fascinating and entertaining journey to uncover how beaches form and behave, the science of waves and currents, and how beaches respond to storms and climate change.

List of contents

About This Book
1. The Sands of Time: Beaches Past, Present and Future
2. Waves: The Science of the Surf
3. Motions of the Oceans: Tides, Tsunamis and Storms
4. White Is Nice, Green Is Mean: Rips and Other Currents
5. Life’s a Beach …: But Which one?
6. Shark Fin Soup and Other Things That Can Kill you: Beach Hazards and Safety
Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

Rob Brander is a coastal scientist and professor at the University of New South Wales Sydney who specializes in rip currents and beach safety. He has been giving talks on the “Science of the Surf” to the community and thousands of schoolchildren since 2001 and gained the nickname “Dr. Rip” for his habit of jumping into rip currents and releasing harmless purple dye. He is a past recipient of an Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research and was appointed Member of the Order of Australia in 2023 for his service to coastal science and the Australian community through beach safety research and education.

Summary

Australia’s best-known surf scientist, Rob “Dr. Rip” Brander, takes readers on a fascinating and entertaining journey to uncover how beaches form and behave, the science of waves and currents, and how beaches respond to storms and climate change.

Product details

• Authors: Rob Brander, Brander Rob
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2024
• EAN: 9780231217408
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21740-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Oceanography (seas), Geology & The Lithosphere