PREFACE 



Data and data summaries presented herein were collected during 1980 and 

 compiled at the U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) Coastal 

 Engineering Research Center's (CERC) Field Research Facility (FRF) in Duck, 

 N. C. This report, the second of a series of annual FRF data collection sum- 

 maries, was carried out under CERC's Waves and Coastal Flooding Program. 



The report was prepared by H. Carl Miller, Oceanographer , under the 

 supervision of Curt Mason, Chief, FRF Group, Research Division. The author 

 acknowledges the entire FRF Group for their efforts related to instrumenta- 

 tion, data collection, and analysis. Drs. Robert W. Whalin and Lewis E. 

 Link, Chief and Assistant Chief, respectively, of CERC, and Dr. James R. 

 Houston, Chief, Research Division, provided general guidance. 



In addition, a special thank you is extended to the National Oceanic and 

 Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service, who helped with 

 the anemometer, NOAA/National Ocean Service, who maintained the tide gage and 

 provided analysis results, and to S. Jeffress Williams, formerly of CERC, who 

 provided the October sediment survey data. 



Commander and Director of WES during the publication of this report was 

 COL Tilford C. Creel, CE. Mr. F. R. Brown was Technical Director. 



