Surf Studies: Websites

The Center for Surf Research is a non-profit research and teaching center housed in SDSU’s Sustainable Tourism Program under the L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. The Center provides leadership in the struggle for sustainability in surf tourism.

This site, maintained by the Hawaii Lifeguard Association, provides real-time data on conditions at surf sites around the islands.

Throughout Australia there are private collections of Surfboards, Skateboards, Magazines, and all sorts of memorabilia.
These collections sometimes come into jeopardy, as the descendants of collectors sell them off or in a couple of instances threw them on the garbage tip???
Our aim is to catalogue these collections for eternity and preserve our history.

The Save Our Surf (SOS) digital collection consists of unpublished material from the SOS organization - an environmental, social, political, and cultural movement that contributed to the contemporary Hawaiian Sovereignty movement.

Surfeminism.com is a community-based forum and online resource for all topics related to gender issues in surfing as well as topics of race, LGBT, environmentalism, activism and more. This site is for all surfers, both women and men, who are interested in speaking up on issues and creating a community to empower women in surfing and help build a better future for the next generation of female surfers. Surfeminism.com is a place to bring women (and men) together on a variety of topics to share ideas, projects, and opinions.

Journey with us through surf culture — from ancient times to today — to discover the story behind the legend. We’ll look at the challenges faced, the gear, the guts, the glory, and how modern surfer girls are changing our world. Girl Museum presents, Surfer Girl.

How waves are created and how they are different depending on wind, fetch, swell period, and the ocean floor (bathymetry). How to forecast the best swells, what to look for, and how to use the forecasting tools on Surfline. Winds, tides, storms, currents, and many other variables are examined by our team of expert forecasters in editorial features and blogs that users can search to find information by category.