Waves crash on the Waikiki coast of O’ahu, Hawaii during high tide. Credit: Hawaii Sea Grant King Tides Project, 2017. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A team of researchers from the University of Hawai’i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) …
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