Contributors

Liberty Vittert

Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis

Liberty is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a graduate of MIT as well as Le Cordon Blue Paris and the University of... Read more

Kevin Voegtlin was born and raised in South Orange County. While attending Cal State Long Beach, Voegtlin interned at SURFER Magazine and began working for SURFER Staff Photographer Jason Kenworthy... Read more

Finian Vogel

Anthropologist/Sponger/Filmmaker

Finian is a videographer. anthropologist and bodyboarder. Read more

Melissa A. Volker

Writer, Reader, Sup Surfer. Read more

Jason von Meding

Senior Lecturer in Construction Management and Disaster Risk Reduction, University of Newcastle

Dr Jason von Meding is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia and leads the Disaster and Development Research Group in the School of Architecture & Built Environment.... Read more

Kyler Vos

Photographer

I call my home base Tofino. Although I have spent a fair amount of time in Haida Gwaii in the past couple of years, I spend the winter months hunkered... Read more

Nicole W. Forrester

Assistant Professor, School of Media, Ryerson University

Dr. Nicole Forrester is an Assistant Professor in the Sport Media program in the RTA School of Media at FCAD. Dr. Forrester’s scholarship centres on the psychology of sport and... Read more

Amy Waeschle

Amy Waeschle is the author of Going Over the Falls and Chasing Waves, A Surfer’s Tale of Obsessive Wandering. Her stories have appeared in publications such as The Seattle Times,... Read more

Philip Waikoloa

Educated at UC-Santa Cruz as a literature major and history minor set him on a path to freelance writing (including an interview with Jack Johnson), publishing a short-lived surf magazine... Read more

Maia Walczak

Author/Illustrator/Artist

Maia Walczak is a self-taught artist, author-illustrator of children’s picture books and novelist. She was born in London, spent her childhood summers in the forests of Poland, and has lived... Read more

Tony Robert Walker

Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University

Dr. Walker currently focuses his research efforts on management and remediation of contaminated sites, ecological impacts and mitigation of industrial pollution, ecological risk assessment and environmental effects monitoring, management of... Read more