PREFACE 



This report was published to provide coastal engineers the results of an 

 investigation of the long-term changes in the beach fauna adjacent to the 

 Coastal Engineering Research Center's (CERC) Field Research Facility pier at 

 Duck, North Carolina. The work was carried out under CERC's Effects of 

 Construction and Operations of Field Research Facility - Duck, North Carolina, 

 work unit, Environmental Impact Research Program, Environmental Quality Area of 

 Civil Works Research and Development. 



The report was prepared by R.J. Diaz and J.T. DeAlteris of DeAlteris 

 Associates, Mathews, Virginia, under CERC Contract No. DACW72-81-C-0002 . 



A.K. Hurme, Ecologist, Coastal Ecology Branch was the CERC contract 

 monitor for the study, under the general supervision of E.J. Pullen, Chief, 

 Coastal Ecology Branch, and R.P. Savage, Chief, Research Division. 



Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E., upon 

 publication of the report. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th 

 Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th 

 Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E.^TSHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



