Every year, coastal science professor Stephen Leatherman — also known as “Dr. Beach” — ranks the best beaches in the U.S.
At the top of the list for 2016: Hawaii’s Hanauma Bay, on Oahu.
Leatherman, who is a professor and Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida International University, uses 50 criteria to rank the quality of public beaches.
Hanauma is a marine embayment formed within a tuff ring and located along the southeast coast of the Island of Oahu (just east of Honolulu) in the Hawaiian Islands.
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