Rip Current (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Rip Current

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Steve Elgar's research focuses on the surf zone -- the fast-moving and turbulent area where ocean waves and high energy currents meet the shoreline. This area is important when it comes to understanding and predicting dangerous rip currents, coastal flooding, and beach erosion. During fieldwork at the USACE Field Research Facility in Duck, N.C., (above) Elgar, his lab partner Dr. Britt Raubenheimer, and former joint program student Dr. Melissa Moulton dug a channel to induce the formation of rip currents.

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Photo by David Clark, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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