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RESPECT THE BEACH
Respect the Beach (RTB) is an award-winning coastal educational program that includes field trips, classroom lectures, handouts, video, and hands-on projects designed to explain coastal watershed processes, shoreline ecology and coastal areas stewardship to K-12 students and community groups. The Respect the Beach program is brought into classrooms by Surfrider members, who represent ocean environmentalism from the surfer's perspective, and who are role models that students can relate to.
Beachology
uses a variety of learning formats to explore many aspects of our sandy shores...

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Watershed Works
utilizes activities designed around simple models that simulate land and water...

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Educational Videos
Sea To Summit: A Journey Through the Watershed
As part of the Watershed Works series, this video traces the entire hydrological cycle, using a mix of computer generated graphics and filmed footage plus appearances by skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, top women's snowboarder Tara Dakides and professional surfers Donavon Frankenreiter, Brad Gerlach and Jodie Nelson. The video is also narrated by renowned ESPN and X-Games commentator Sal Masakela.
200+ community outreach campaigns
900 presentations of Surfrider's education program, Respect the Beach
8,000+ beach water tests taken
600 beach cleanups, 125+ meetings and events involving city, county, and state gevernments were attended by Surfrider Chapter representatives
140,000+ volunteer hours!!
At our national office in San Clemente, CA, we also offer university level students the ability to do worthwhile INTERNSHIPS.

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