Reading resources

Reading resources

General

• YouTube: The Wave by Susan Casey

Author Information, Interviews, and Projects

• Author Biography – Random House
• Author Website: SusanCasey.com
• Susan Casey Interview – Conan O’Brien Show, November 17, 2010
• Susan Casey Interview – Mayborn School of Journalism, 2011
• "Explorer's Club: These Authors Go to the Extremes (In a Good Way) – O Magazine, September 2010
• NPR Interview with Susan Casey

Climate Change and Natural Disasters

• UK Government Policy on Climate Change – Gov.uk
• The Effect of Climate Change on Ocean Processes – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
• "Polar Bears, Penguins... And Now Surfers, the Latest Victims of Climate Change" – Quartz, May 9, 2013
• "Surfing's Endless Summer Succumbs to Climate Change and Global Warming" – Living Green Magazine, May 15, 2013
• “Climate Change May Bring Bigger Waves for Down Under” – Nature, January 13, 2013
• "Changing Wave Heights Projected as the Atmosphere Warms" – CSIRO, April 18, 2013
• “Sea–level rise and its possible impacts given a ‘beyond 4°C world’ in the twenty–first century” – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, January 13, 2011
• "Killer Waves in California Claim 5 Lives Without Warming" – Bloomberg, January 30, 2013

Economy

• Ecosystem Valuation
• Coastal Economy Toolkit – Coastal Communities Alliance
• “Coastal Economies and People” – Marine Climate Change Ecosystem, 2009
• “The Economic Impact of Substantial Sea–Level Rise” – Working Paper, Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University and Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Science
• "A Coupled Physical and Economic Model of the Response of Coastal Real Estate to Climate Risk" – Nature Climate Change, February 17, 2013

History

• Riding the Wave through History (1755 – 2011)
• 1755: Historic Earthquakes, Portugal
• "Historical Depictions of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake" – National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
• "The 1755 Lisbon Tsunami: Evaluation of the Tsunami Parameters" – Journal of Geodynamics, January 1998
• 1799: HMS Lutine – Capture, Wreck, and Salvage
• 1883: Krakatoa Volcano Eruption and Tsunami
• 1909: SS Waratah Disappearance
• 1912: RMS Titantic Sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean
• 1978: MS Munchen Sank en Route to Wilmington, NC
• 1991: Oceanos Ship Sinks; All Passengers Saved
• 2004: Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
• 2011: Japan Tsunami and Earthquake

Risk Analysis

• "The Effects of Risk Glorifying Media Exposure on Risk–Positive Cognitions, Emotions, and Behaviors" – American Psychological Association, 2011
• "Risk–Taking and the Media" – Risk Analysis, 2011
• "'Sh*t Happens': The Selling of Risk in Extreme Sport" – The Australian Journal of Anthropology, December 2002
• "The Aesthetics of Risk: A Study of Surfing" – International Review for the Sociology of Sport, September 1999

Science

• Ocean in Motion: Waves – Characteristics – Office of Naval Research
• Oceana: Ocean Waves
• Surfology: The Science of Surfing and Waves – Surfline
• Ocearch Global Shark Tracker
• Ocearch: Ocean Research
• SeaMonster: Ocean Science, Sports, and Discovery
• Chasing Ice Documentary

Surfing and Sport

• YouTube: Waimea Bay Big Wave Surfing – Huge Swell, December 2009
• YouTube: Garrett McNamara Rides 90–Foot Wave
• YouTube: Laird Hamilton Takes on Teahupoo
• Vimeo: Cinematic Vision Captures Destructive Session at the Wedge
• "'Get up. Stand Up.' Riding to Resilience on a Surfboard" – Child and Family Social Work, 2010
• "Surfing in the Third Millennium: Commodifying the Visual Argot" – The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2002
• "Garrett McNamara: Meet the Daredevil who Surfs Glacier Waves" – CNN, June 26, 2013