Acknowledgements 



Profile surveying at SUPERTANK was a continual and labor-intensive 

 procedure whose importance was well appreciated by all participants. We 

 acknowledge with great appreciation the often tired, but always persevering, 

 members of the survey crews who participated over the course of SUPER- 

 TANK with care and patience at all times. In particular, we would like to 

 recognize survey team members Messrs. Harmin Ojibiwa (OSU), John Mason 

 and Barry Sommerfeld (CERC), Ms. Cheryl Brown (FIT), Dr. Susumu 

 Kubota (Nihon University, Japan), Mr. George Kaminsky (Washington State 

 Department of Ecology), and Dr. Julio Zyserman (Danish Hydraulic Institute, 

 Denmark). We greatly appreciate the considerable assistance of Mr. Fred F. 

 Tucker, Tucker Surveying of Nacogdoches, Texas, in providing the 

 Geodimeter for use during SUPERTANK and for assisting in establishing the 

 profile survey system. The survey carriage was designed and constructed by 

 the staff of the WRL. Mr. Steven Barkaszi, graduate student, FIT, performed 

 the sediment fall-speed analysis. Messrs. Fulton Carson, CERC, and John 

 Mason, contract computer scientist to CERC from ASCI Corporation, drew 

 the figures in this chapter. Mr. Mason also assisted in the profile survey data 

 inspection and cleaning, both at SUPERTANK and at CERC. 



We especially thank the many volunteer sand shovelers who moved tons of 

 sand up the beach profile and out of the channel, or who formed dunes and 

 berms and dug in and dug out seawalls. We also acknowledge the significant 

 efforts of Mr. William Hollings, WRL, in operating the front loader so skill- 

 fully in avoiding the wave gauges and for volunteering time in the evenings 

 and on weekends according to the evolving schedule of SUPERTANK and 

 whims of the waves and investigators in moving sand across the profile. 



The citing of trade names does not imply endorsement of these commercial 

 products. 



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Howd, P. A., and Birkemeier, W. A. (1987). "Beach and nearshore survey 

 data: 1981-1984 CERC Field Research Facility," Technical Report CERC- 

 87-9, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 

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Kraus, N. C, and Larson, M. (1988). "Beach profile change measured in the 

 tank for large waves, 1956-1957 and 1962," Technical Report CERC-88-6, 

 U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS. 



Kraus, N. C, Smith, J. M., and Sollitt, C. K. (1992). "SUPERTANK 

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