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Chad Nelsen

Chad Nelsen

CEO, Surfrider

Chad Nelsen, Surfrider Foundation, environment, ocean, coasts, coastal health, ocean health

For the Surfrider Foundation’s Chad Nelsen, the Mission of Saving the Ocean Is a Relentless Process

4 min read Aug 14, 2018

Will This Surfboard Put a Stop to Offshore Drilling in the Atlantic?

5 min read Feb 11, 2016

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan is affecting the health and safety of those living along the Eastern Pacific. This addresses the most common questions we are getting.

Fukushima’s Radiation: Things You Need to Know

3 min read Feb 10, 2014

Beach Closure Pollution

Obama to Halt Beach Water Quality Monitoring?

4 min read Feb 16, 2012

This is the first national report on the recreational, demographic, and economic characteristics of surfers, which took place at the 2011 Global Wave Conference in San Sebastian, Spain.

Business & Media

Economic Profile of U.S. Surfers

1 min read Dec 12, 2011

How to start a movement, environmentally speaking.

Going Green But Getting Nowhere

3 min read Oct 4, 2011

Upper Trestles Uppers

The Value of a Wave

2 min read Dec 30, 2010

oil barrel and cash

The Oil Industry Hasn’t Learned

1 min read Dec 16, 2010

UV Light Reveals Oil on Gulf Beaches

1 min read Oct 21, 2010

Surfers tend to ingest ten times more water than swimmers or divers making our exposure to pathogens in the ocean much higher than other groups.

Why Ocean Pollution Harms Surfers the Most

4 min read Sep 13, 2010