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Pay it forward
Raymond E. Floyd

For power systems, geography doesn't matter
but electrical structure does
Paul Cuffe, Elena Sáiz-Marín, and Andrew Keane
on tHe Cover: Getting stoked on
wind, waves, and water technologies.
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tHeme: oCeaniC engineering

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Cultivating a garden of waves

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An acoustic positioning buoy

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Wind and waves: It must be Maine

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Propelling students forward
through submarine racing

Craig Causer

Departments
& Columns

Jeremiah Sullivan

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Josh Plourde

editorial
the way ahead
gamesman solutions
gamesman problems

Kurt Yankaskas, Christopher Land, and Steve Barton

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Video-based remote sensing
of surf zone conditions
Tom E. Baldock, Theo Moura, and Hannah E. Power

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