
The Wave 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 - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, November 30, 2010
- Laird Hamilton and Susan Casey Interview - Charlie Rose, September 27, 2010
- "Explorer's Club: These Authors Go to the Extremes (In a Good Way) - O Magazine, September 2010
- NPR Interview with Susan Casey
Local Resources
- "UNCW Studies Effects of Ingested Plastic on Sea Turtles" - Wilmington StarNews, February 4, 2013
- Town of Wrightsville Beach
- Wrightsville Beach Surfer's Source
- Southern North Carolina Surf
- North Carolina Coastal Federation
- The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center
- UNCW Marine Mammal Stranding Program
- North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher
- Museum of Coastal Carolina
- Cape Fear Chapter of Surfrider Foundation
- Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program
- UNCW Surf Club
- UNCW Stand Up Paddleboard Club
- UNCW Scuba Club
- UNCW Sailing Club
- UNCW Skimboarding Club
- UNCW Water Ski Club
- "Wrightsville Beach History" - Wrightsville Beach Musem of History
- "Was There a Trolley from Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach?" - Wilmington StarNews, April 17, 2013
Climate Change and Natural Disasters
- "President Obama's Plan to Fight Climate Change" - The White House, June 25, 2013
- "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
- "Heat Waves, Storms, Flooding: Climate Change to Profoundly Affect US Midwest in the Coming Decades" - ScienceDaily, January 18, 2013
- "Changing Wave Heights Projected as the Atmosphere Warms" - CSIRO, April 18, 2013
- "Killer Waves in California Claim 5 Lives Without Warming" - Bloomberg, January 30, 2013
- "Deadly Topography: The Staten Island Neighborhood Where 11 Died During Sandy" - WNYC, February 25, 2013
- "Coastal Cities and Climate Change; You Are Going to Get Wet" -Economist, June 5, 2013
- "Photographer Captures Waves of Trash in Indonesia" -The Huffington Post, August 10, 2013
- "An Entire New Jersey Town Considers Elevating Itself to Escape Future Storms" -Global Possibilities, August 10, 2013
- "Team study effects of climate change on West Nile virus" - Medical Xpress, September 9, 2013
Economy
- Ecosystem Valuation
- "Science Helping Coastal Communities and Economies Build a Sustainable Future" - Sea Grant
- "The Economic Value of Resilient Coastal Communities" - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, March 2013
- "A Coupled Physical and Economic Model of the Response of Coastal Real Estate to Climate Risk" - Nature Climate Change, February 17, 2013
- National Center for Environmental Economics
- Center for Economic and Community Development - Coastal Carolina
- Wilmington Chamber of Commerce: Marine Resources Demographics and Statistics
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-Taking
- "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
- "'Shit 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
- National Oceanic and Atomspheric Administration
- Ocearch Global Shark Tracker
- Ocearch: Ocean Research
- Rising Sea Levels
- Sea Grant National
- 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
- "Biggest wave ever? Surfer's ride may be one for the record books" - Today Orange Room, October 29, 2013