CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) 9 



I INTRODUCTION 11 



II METHODS AND MATERIALS 14 



1. Transect Location 14 



2. Sampling Device 16 



3. Sampling Plan 16 



4. Measurement of Physical Parameters 19 



III RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS 20 



1. The Ocean Beach 20 



2. The Sound Beach 53 



IV DISCUSSION 84 



1. The Ocean Beach 84 



2. The Sound Beach 86 



LITERATURE CITED 89 



APPENDIX 



A PRELIMINARY TESTS OF SAMPLING DEVICES 91 



B DEVELOPMENT OF SAMPLING PLAN 92 



C RESULTS OF THE AUGUST 1975 SAl^lPLING ON THE OCEAN 



BEACH 94 



D RESULTS OF THE JULY 1975 SAMPLING ON THE SOUND 



BEACH 98 



TABLES 



1 Faunistic list of the ocean beach at the CERC Field Research 



Facility 21 



2 Mean number of total macrofauna per square meter on the ocean 



bqach 23 



3 Mean number of Emevita tatpo-ida per square meter on the ocean 



beach 24 



4 Mean number of SaoZelepis squamata per square meter on the ocean 



beach 25 



5 Mean number of Parahaustorius longimerus per square meter on 



the ocean beach 26 



