barrier islands (Figure 1). More than 50 researchers from CERC, other Govern- 

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9. Patterned after the DUCK85 experiment, the SUPERDUCK project 

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 low wave heights to perform labor-intensive experiments in the surf zone and 

 an October phase that used primarily electronic instrumentation and remote 

 sensing to measure storm-related nearshore processes. The surf zone sand 

 transport data collection was performed in September as a self-contained 

 program by CERC researchers with interest in measuring surf zone waves, 

 currents , and sand transport . 



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