Welcome to A Surfer’s Guide To Ocean Literacy. Throughout this series, we will discuss our relationship to the ocean as surfers, exploring how the ocean affects us and the impact we have on it. Natalie Fox will guide us through the 7 Ocean Literacy Principles and how they can make us better surfers.

Earth has one big ocean with many features. Natalie discusses how waves are created, how that energy moves around the world, and how a deeper understanding of the ocean helps us, as surfers, find the best waves.

The ocean and life within it shape the features of the Earth. In Ocean Literacy Principle 2, Natalie walks us through the different types of waves and explains how the surface on which a wave breaks determines its shape, power, height, and length.

The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate. In Ocean Literacy Principle 3, Natalie guides us through the ways weather and climate create and affect waves. We dive into how swell, and consequently waves, develop from pressure systems and introduce how these concepts aid us in reading an...

The ocean made the Earth habitable. In this episode of A Surfer's Guide To Ocean Literacy, Natalie helps us to appreciate the ways that the ocean supports life on our planet. As surfers we spend a lot of time in the ocean catching waves but we don't always recognize the broader contributions that...

The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems. Ocean literacy principle 5 (and Natalie's favorite) goes through the different levels of the ocean from the surface down to the sea floor. Join us in becoming a little more well versed in the largest living space on Earth.

The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected. In this video on the sixth principle of ocean literacy we discuss the ways that we humans are connected and drawn to the ocean. Water helps to bring us back to ourselves and feel more connected with the earth and those around us. Natalie share...

The ocean is largely unexplored. In the seventh and final ocean literacy principle Natalie walks us through different ways to explore the ocean around us, why being curious about your surf ecosystem is important and how ocean science has become an interdisciplinary study.

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