An interview with Paul Komar

摘要

Twenty years ago this spring, I took Paul Komar's "Beach Processes" class as a naive first-year graduate student at Oregon State University. That class significantly inspired my career path and many subsequent life choices since. I have been truly blessed to know and work with Paul, first as his student and then as a collaborator for now over two decades. In the nearshore processes community Paul is probably best known for his pioneering work on longshore sediment transport (with Doug Inman) and then for his highly influential textbook, "Beach Processes and Sedimentation." Like thousands of other students of waves and beaches, I first learned the fundamentals from Paul and his unparalleled text.