To stand at the edge of an ocean is to face an eternity of waves and water, a shroud covering seven-tenths of the Earth. Hidden below are mountain ranges and canyons that rival anything on land.

The group focuses on observing and modeling coastal processes including beach evolution, cliff erosion, and nearshore waves. A specialized team of oceanographers, engineers, and graduate students ...

These ripples are waves travelling through the water. Like ocean waves, these ripples are transverse waves because the surface of the water moves up and down, at 90° to the direction that the ...