diff --git a/param-files/excel_to_yaml.py b/param-files/excel_to_yaml.py
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+import os
+import re
+import yaml
+import pandas as pd
+from glob import glob
+
+excel_names = glob('*.xlsx')
+
+for excel_name in excel_names:
+    print('processing {}'.format(excel_name))
+    df = pd.read_excel(excel_name)
+    survey_id, _ = os.path.splitext(excel_name)
+
+    for i, row in df.iterrows():
+        beach = row['BEACH'].replace('_', '-').lower()
+        yaml_name = '{}-{}.yaml'.format(survey_id, beach)
+        with open(yaml_name, 'w') as f:
+            f.write(yaml.dump(row.to_dict(), default_flow_style=False))
diff --git a/param-files/survey-1.xlsx b/param-files/survey-1.xlsx
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