. >> hi, all, welcome to the festival of books, i'm joshua smith environment report for the san diego union tribune. today, welcoming authors, kim mccoy and montano. and kim was the classic waves and beaches, samantha is an expert in emergency management who wrote the book, disasterology from the front lines of the climate crisis. kim, let's start with you. you spent years at sea including in remote polar regions, very interesting. and the first of this book was initially written in the 1960's by a mentor of yours, if i'm not mistaken, basscomb. can you tell us how it impacted your early career and how you became friends. >> william and i had become friends, and i read his book in school. and influenced me early on and luckily, the first real job i had was in wave dynamics. he was a talented guy and he knew presidents and did all sorts of wonderful things, but you can read about him on wick nida. >> how did you meet him? i met him at an association in the late '90s. he was talking about getting gold from a wreck called the brother jonathan and after that, i went up to him, thank you f

. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> hi all and welcome to the festival of books, and the other q&a series, and joshua smithtribune, today's session welcomes authors samantha montano and kim and kim is an ocean order recently crafted the third edition it in the rain science classic it, "waves and beaches" the powerful dynamic of the sea and the coast and samantha is an expert in emergency management a arrhythm, distant and disasters and climate crisis and give the start with you, you spent years at city including it in a remote region, very interesting but first, the first division of this book was originally presented in the 1960s, a mentor of yours if i am not mistaken. >> how this affected your early career and now you formed a relationship with him later inor life pretty. >> thank you for having me, in the late '90s, although the first edition of the "waves and beaches" was in graduate school when i'm studying cueva dynamics and it got me early on and likely the first real job i had an ocean order and oceanography, is a talented guy a new presided all sorts of wonderful things and you can read about a.

. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ hi and welcome to the festival of books and am joshua smith and san diego union tribuneest and authors "disasterolgy" & kim mccoy, "waves and beaches" and recently crafted the third edition of the marine science classes, the powerful dynamic in the seat and a ghost and samantha is expert in emergency management of the book, ("disasterology") and oceanographer kim mccoy ("waves and beaches") . and kim let's start with you and you years at sea including a remote region is very interesting, but first edition of this book was initially written in the 1960s by a mentor of yours if i'm not mistaken, and can you tell us about how they book impacted your career and how you came to create a relationship later in life predict. >> we became friends only 90s, and the first edition of the waves and beaches and when i was studying the dynamics and that certainly influenced me early on and luckily this first real job i had enough geography was away dynamics and it was a very broad and talented guy who knew the presidents hand call source of wonderful things he did, and his career. and

. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> hi all and welcome to the festival of books, and the other q&a series, and joshua smithay's session welcomes authors samantha montano and kim and kim is an ocean oer

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