PREFACE 



This report is published to provide coastal engineers with profile 

 and sediment data collected during a 23-month survey of beach and offshore 

 sand level changes along a straight beach at Torrey Pines, California. 

 The work was carried out under the coastal processes program of the U.S. 

 Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) . 



This report is published, with only minor editing, as received from 

 the contractor; results and conclusions are those of the authors and are 

 not necessarily accepted by CERC or the Corps of Engineers. 



The report was prepared by Dr. Douglas L. Inman, Professor of Oceano- 

 graphy, and Charles E. Nordstrom, Associate Specialist in Marine Geology, 

 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, under CERC 

 Contract No. DACW72-72-C-0020. Data obtained under the contract was used 

 to augment and help evaluate similar information in the CERC Beach 

 Evaluation Program. The authors acknowledge the assistance of Michael 

 Kirk and Earl Murray in the collection and reduction of field data. 



Dr. Craig H. Everts, Oceanographer , was the CERC technical monitor 

 for this contract under the supervision of Dr. C.J. Galvin, Chief, Coastal 

 Processes Branch, 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. 



JAMES L. TRAYERS 



Colonel, Corps of "Engineers 



Commander and Director 



