PREFACE 
This report is one of a series describing the results of the U.S. Army 
Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) Beach Evaluation Program. One 
aspect of the program, and the subject of this report, is to provide basic 
engineering information on changes in the volume of sand on beaches above 
mean sea level, and on changes in shoreline position, as obtained from long- 
term beach survey projects. The ll-year study on Long Beach Island, New 
Jersey, was begun shortly after the catastrophic storm of 5 to 9 March 1962. 
The work was carried out under the CERC beach behavior and restoration program. 
The report was prepared by Martin C. Miller (principal investigator), 
Science Applications, Inc. (SAI), Raleigh, North Carolina; David G. Aubrey, 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts; and Joseph Karpen, SAI, 
under CERC contract No. DACW72-79-C-0020. Beach profile surveys were per- 
formed by the U.S. Army Engineer District, Philadelphia, under the supervision 
of H. Spies, except for a period in 1963 and 1964 when the work was contracted 
to Mauzy, Morrow and Associates of Lakewood, New Jersey. Visual wave data 
were contributed by P. Kief and H. Wilson. M.V. Fleming, T.J. Lawler, J. 
Buchanan, and B. Sims developed the CERC computer programs used for editing, 
analyzing, and displaying the beach profile data. Eigenfunction analysis pro- 
grams were written by D. Aubrey. J.L. Miller, J.A. Tarnowski, and K.P. 
Zirkle assisted in data reduction. The authors acknowledge and appreciate 
the helpful review comments from G. Ashley, W. Birkemeier, A. DeWall, E. Hawley, 
B. LeMehaute, and C.L. Vincent. 
A.E. DeWall was the contract monitor, under the general supervision of R.M. 
Sorensen, Chief, Coastal Processes and Structures Branch, 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 1972, 88th Congress, 
approved 7 November 1963. 
Colonel, Corps of Engineers 
Commander and Director 
