materials from The First Annual Rip Current Symposium

The Rip Current Symposium was held on February 17-19, 2010, in Miami, Florida, with a focus on identifying advancements in rip current research to increase understanding about the dynamics, mechanisms, and predictability of rip currents; recognizing that improving  public understanding of rips that will reduce the tragic losses of life.

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• Alongshore Synchronization of Rip Current Hotspots and Beach Access at Pensacola Beach, Florida and Galveston, Texas

• Rip Currents and Beach Safety Education

• Measuring Sand Tracer Movement in a Strong Rip Current

• Monitoring Rips, Hazards and Risk on Beaches

• Dont Pollute

• Don't Get Sucked in By the Rip

• The Eena Project

• The American Red Cross and Water Safety Education

• Survival Guide Excerpt

• National Weather Service Marine and Coastal Branch

• Insights into Beach Risk Assessment - A Fault Tree Analysis Approach

• Estimating Breaker Heights in the Surf Zone Along Beaches with Broad Bottom Slopes

• Beach Vacation

• A Public Education Strategy for Rip Currents

• Significant Rip Current Event Associated With Low Wave Heights

• An Overview of Rip Current Understanding

• Forcing and Variability of Offshore Controlled Rip Currents

• Macro-tidal Rip Currents- Circulation, Dynamics and Hazards

• Favorite Beach Form

• A Historical Analysis of Rip Current Rescues at Kill Devil Hills, NC

• Use of Remote Sensing to Improve Regional Local Rip Current Forecasts

• Improving Beach Safety- The Science of the Surf Research Project

• Eulerian Rip Current Field Observations Temporal Modulations

• Different Scales of Rip Currents Along the German North- and Baltic Sea Coastline

• Rip Currents in Europe

• Formation and Persistence Of Rip Currents Examined

• Forecasting of Great Lakes Rip Currents

• Predicting Rip Currents Using a 3-D, Numerical, Coupled, Wave Current Model

• Remote Sensing of Rip Currents by Spaceborne High Resolution Imaging Radar

• Florida Rip Current Deaths-Trends and Forecasts

• Efforts of the Mackinac County Water Safety Review Team to Promote Great Lakes Rip Current Education and Beach Safety

• Alongshore Differential Topographically Controlled Wave-breaking and Rip Current Circulation

• Surf Zone Retention in Rip Current Systems and Implications for Beach Safety

• Lagrangian Rip Current Field Observations Swim Parallel

• Incipient Rip-Current Statistics on an Open Coast

• Rip Currents Prediction in Ocean City, MD
  

• Incipient Rip-Current Statistics on an Open Coast

• Diagnostic Monitoring of Rip Currents on Southern California Beaches