PREFACE 
This report provides coastal engineers the results of a study on the 
effects of beach nourishment activities on the intertidal zone at Bogue Banks, 
North Carolina. This research was funded by the State of North Carolina, 
Division of Marine Affairs, and the U.S. Army Engineer District, Wilmington, 
and published under the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center's (CERC) 
Environmental Impact Program, Environmental Quality Area of Civil Works 
Research and Development. 
The report was prepared by Francis J. Reilly, Jr., and Vincent J. Bellis, 
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. The authors acknowledge 
the assistance of the following people: J. Bray, Department of Surgery, and 
M. Jones, Department of Biology, East Carolina University, for their help with 
trace element determinations; H. Porter and C. Peterson, Institute of Marine 
Sciences, University of North Carolina; M. Civils, Burroughs Wellcome Labora- 
tories; K. Leber, Florida State University; J. McDermott, Franklin Marshall 
College; T. Wolcott and C. Lytle, North Carolina State University, for their 
aid in species identification; S. Rogers, North Carolina Sea Grant Advisory 
Service; and C. Lunney, D. Hall, M. Brinson, A. Ash, F. Belcik, C. Stack, 
W. Queen, S. Riggs, and E. Ryan for their aid in report preparation; and 
D. Landy-Cobb, D. Lucus, R. Walsh, N. Reilly, N. Rubner, and S. Kerr for their 
help with the field work. 
E.J. Pullen, Chief, Coastal Ecology Branch, served as CERC's technical 
reviewer for the report, under the general supervision of Mr. R.P. Savage, 
Chief, Research Division. 
Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E. 
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. 
T 
ED E. BISHOP 
Colonel, Corps of Engineers 
Commander and Director 
