PREFACE 



This report provides basic data and summaries of the environmental 

 measurements made at the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center's 

 (CERC) Field Research Facility (FRF) in Duck, North Carolina. The report, 

 the first in a series of annual reports, covers data collected through 

 December 1979. In the interest of making these data available, interpre- 

 tation was not attempted. The work was carried out under CERC's FRF 

 Environmental Measurements and Analysis work unit. Coastal Flooding and 

 Storm Protection Program, Coastal Engineering Area of Civil Works Research 

 and Development. 



The report was prepared by H. Carl Miller, Oceanographer , under the 

 supervision of Mr. C. Mason, Chief, Field Research Facility Group, and 

 Mr. R.P. Savage, Chief, Research Division, 



The author acknowledges the helpful review comments from A. Szuwalski , 

 Dr. E.F. Thompson, and Dr. T. Walton of CERC, and extends a special thank 

 you to the following people who worked very hard to prepare the data for 

 publication: E.W. Bichner, A.E. DeWall, C. Douglas, M. Leffler, and 

 C. Schneider. 



The following groups from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- 

 tration (NOAA) and CERC provided support for instrument installation and 

 maintenance, data collection, analysis, and summarization: NOAA/National 

 Ocean Survey — Tides and Tidal Datums Branch, Atlantic Marine Center, Tide 

 Analysis Branch; NOAA/National Weather Service — Raleigh Regional Head- 

 quarters, Hatteras Station; CERC — Instrumentation Branch, Programming and 

 Systems Branch, Evaluation Branch, Coastal Oceanography Branch, and Field 

 Research Facility Group. 



Technical Director of CERC was Er. Robert W. Whalln, P.E. 

 Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Con- 

 gress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th 

 Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



