Kerry Black, a researcher at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand, and his colleagues have been finding out what makes good waves on other coasts.
"They're succeeding at some of the big but simpler problems and really just getting started on more complicated secondary pollutant problems, " said Chris Nielsen, another researcher on the project and executive director of Harvard's China Project, which focuses on the atmospheric environment.