PREFACE 



This report was sponsored by the Office, Chief oi Engineers (OCE) , 

 US Army, as a part of the Environmental Inpact Research Program (EIRP) 

 Work Unit 31533 entitled Foi.edune Ecology, which was assigned to the US 

 Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) . The Center, originally 

 located at Fort Belvoir, Va . , moved to the US Army Engineer Waterways 

 Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg, Miss., on 1 July 1983. The Technical 

 Monitors for the study were Dr. John Bushman and Mr. Earl Eiker of OCE and 

 Mr. Dave Mathis, Water Resources Support Center. 



The report was prepared by Mr. Robert E. Zaremba of the Massachusetts 

 Audubon Society and Mr. Stephen P. Leatherman, University of Massachusetts, 

 under a cooperative agreement between CERC and the US National Park Service. 

 Mr. P. L. Knutson of CERC prepared the Summary. 



Mr. Knutson was the CERC Technical Advisor for the contract, 

 under the general supervision of Mr. E. J. Pullen, Chief, Coastal Ecology 

 Branch, and M-. R. P. Savage, Chief, Research Division, CERC. Dr. Roger T. 

 Saucier, WES, was the Program Manager of EIRP. 



Technical Director of CERC «*t Fort Belvoir during the study and prepara- 

 tion of this report was Dr. Robert W. Whalin. Commander and Director of WES 

 during this period was COL Tilford C. Creel, CE; Technical Director was 

 Mr. F. R. Brown. 



This report should be cited as follows: 



Zaremba, R. E., and Leatherman, S. P. 1984. "Overwash Processes 

 and Foredune Ecology, Nauset Spit, Massachusetts," Miscellaneous 

 Paper EL-84-8, prepared by Massachusetts Audubon Society and 

 University of Massachusetts under a cooperative agreement between 

 US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, North 

 Atlantic Region, Boston, Mass., and the US Array Coastal Engineer- 

 ing Research Center and published by US Army Engineer Waterways 

 Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Miss. 



