PREFACE 



This report is published to assist coastal engineers in the planning, 

 design, and implementation of transplanting seagrasses to restore areas 

 damaged by coastal engineering projects and to stabilize substrates ad- 

 jacent to navigation channels. 



The report was prepared by Ronald C. Phillips, School of Natural and 

 Mathematical Sciences, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, 

 under CERC Contract No. DACW72-79-C-0030. Some of the material in the 

 report is based on research supported in part by the National Science 

 Foundation, International Decade of Ocean Exploration, 



The author expresses appreciation to S. Grant for providing the 

 illustrations . 



Paul L. Knutson was the contract monitor for the report, under the 

 general supervision of E.J. Pullen, Chief, Coastal Ecology Branch, Research 

 Division, CERC. 



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, SSth 

 Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BPSHOP 



-Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



