The Ocean Foundation  partner and grantee Chad Nelson of Surfrider Foundation and Linwood Pendleton, chief economist of NOAA have authored
Surfonomics: What’s this wave worth, by Gregory Thomas, August 26, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/surfonomics-quantifies-the-worth-of-waves/2012/08/23/86e335ca-ea2c-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html

Special thanks to Mark J. Spalding