PREFACE 



This report is published to provide coastal engineers with basic 

 scientific data on the benthic fauna and surface sediments collected 

 during a 12 -month period in the nearshore zone of Panama City Beach , 

 Florida, before restoration of the beach, and the results of a study on 

 the effect of Hurricane Eloise on the benthic fauna of the swash zone of 

 Panama City Beach. The work was carried out under the coastal ecology 

 research program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). 



The report was prepared by Carl H. Saloman, Fishery Research Biologist, 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, Gulf Fisheries Center, Panama City 

 Laboratory, Panama City, Florida, under CERC Interservice Support Agreement 

 No. 75-28. 



The author acknowledges the assistance received from the following 

 experts on the identification and verification of the various animal taxa 

 collected: Raymond B. Manning, National Museum of Natural History, 

 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (caridean shrimp and stomatopods) ; 

 Edward B. Culter, Utica College of Syracuse University, Utica, New York 

 (sipunculid) ; Herbert Boschung, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 

 (lancelets) ; Les Watling, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware (cumacean) 

 Richard W. Heard, Jr., Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, 

 Mississippi (isopods) ; E.L. Bousfield, National Museum of Canada, Ontario, 

 Canada (amphipods) ; J.R. Pickavance, Memorial University of New Foundland, 

 St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada (oligochaetes) ; John Hall, National Marine 

 Fisheries Service, Panama City, Florida (mollusk) ; and John L. Taylor, 

 Taylor Biological Company, Lynn Haven, Florida (polychaetes) . 



Mr. R.M. Yancey, Chief, Ecology Branch, was the CERC contract monitor 

 for the report, under the general supervision of the Mr. R.P. Savage, 

 Chief, Research Division. 



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. 



JOHN H. COUSINS 

 'Colonel, Corps of Engineers 

 Commander and Director 



