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