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Tom Shand

Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Tom is a wave scientist and coastal engineer. He has a PhD in wave breaking mechanics and is a specialist in surf zone processes and wave-structure interaction. He is based between Raglan, NZ and Sydney Australia. He is a Technical of Coastal Engineering at the engineering consultancy Tonkin + Taylor and an honorary lecturer at the University of Auckland. He hates long walks on the beach, but enjoys long point breaks, modelling and understanding surf breaks and a good overtopping event.