Bryton Wolfe, U.R. This Week in Review

This week I began scouting out locations for my independent research project. The official topic is about how frontal boundaries effect oceanic conditions in near coastal waters. At first, I was going to choose Sunglow Pier, latitude 29 degrees 8' and 47." North and Longitude  80 degrees 57' and 52.0" West. Upon further examination, I decided against it, due to a lack of consistency in swell height during different tides. (during low tide the outer sandbar would break much larger than on low tide). This is when my surfers intuition kicked in and decided to travel to one of the most consistent places for surf in the state of Florida is, Ponce Inlet. This location, Latitude 29 degrees 4' and 43" North and Longitude 80 degrees 55' and 6.4" provides the ideal zone for consistent surf due to the lack of an outer bar. Thus, this provides almost near perfect conditions to measure consistent swell height even in different tides. For materials, I can only think of an Anemometer for wind speed, A Compass for direction of wind, and my body for judging the height of the surf, and finally a stopwatch for judging swell period.

An image from my selected location