Preface 



This study was conducted as a joint effort of the Coastal Engineering Re- 

 search and Development Program (CERDP) and the Dredging Research Pro- 

 gram (DRP) authorized by Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

 (HQUSACE) through research work units administered at the U.S. Army 

 Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Coastal Engineering 

 Research Center (CERC). The CERDP portion of the study was conducted 

 under the Calculation of Cross-Shore Sediment Transport and Beach Profile 

 Change Work Unit 32530 and the Nearshore Waves and Currents Work Unit 

 31672. The DRP portion of the study was conducted under the Calculation of 

 Boundary Layer Properties (Noncohesive Sediments) Work Unit 32463 and 

 the Open Water Disposal Site Planning Management and Design Work Unit 

 32489. HQUSACE Technical Monitors were Messrs. John H. Lockhart, Jr., 

 John G. Housley, Barry W. Holliday, and David A. Roellig for the CERDP, 

 and Messrs. Robert H. Campbell, John H. Lockhart, Jr., and David B. 

 Mathis for the DRP. Ms. Carolyn M. Holmes (CERC) was CERDP Program 

 Manager (PM), and Mr. E. Clark McNair, Jr., (CERC) and Dr. Lyndell Z. 

 Hales (CERC) were DRP PM and Assistant PM, respectively. 

 Dr. Nicholas C. Kraus, Senior Scientist (CERC), was DRP Technical Area 1 

 (TA1) Manager for Work Unit 32463, and Mr. Thomas W. Richardson 

 (CERC) was DRP TA5 Manager for Work Unit 32489. 



This two-volume report provides information and data documenting a 

 coastal processes data collection project called the SUPERTANK Data Collec- 

 tion Project performed at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory, 

 Oregon State University, over the period 29 July to 20 September 1991. The 

 project was conducted as a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional cooperative 

 effort in which the investigators shared instrumentation and expertise. Vol- 

 ume I of this report contains narrative and example results of major data 

 collection activities and is presented in independent chapters written by the 

 investigators who participated in the project. Chapter 1 of Volume I provides 

 an overview of the project and the activities of all investigators. Volume II 

 contains appendices summarizing properties of the data sets collected and was 

 also prepared by the individual investigators. 



Technical editors for this report were Dr. Nicholas C. Kraus, Senior Scien- 

 tist (CERC), and Ms. Jane McKee Smith, Research Hydraulic Engineer, 

 Coastal Processes Branch (CPB), Research Division (RD), CERC, who were 



