Breaking of open ocean surface waves is an important process at the air-sea interface in driving upper ocean mixing and bubble-mediated gas exchange (CO2). Measuring breaking events in the field is challenging due to technological limitations and the harsh marine environments in which they occur. This seminar will be used to introduce a new automated remote sensing technique to detect and track breaking waves in the field through firstly 3D reconstructing digital images of the sea surface before implementing image processing algorithms. Using this method, geometric, kinematic and dynamic information will be measured for individual breakers and will then be applied to an energy dissipation model.