CONTENTS—Continued 



TABLES 



Page 



1 Motels closest to the FRF 25 



2 Rental companies 26 



3 Summary of Instrumentation 28 



4 FRF base-line monumentation 32 



5 Meteorological data: normals, means, and extremes 37 



6 Summary of wave statistics for Nags Head, North Carolina 39 



7 Summary of storms (all classes), 1942 to 1967 45 



8 Summary of estimated longshore transport at Sea Crest, North 



Carolina, based on LEO observations..... 50 



9 Monthly mean surface water temperatures 53 



10 Rates of change for profile lines in vicinity of the FRF, 



May 1974 to January 1977 63 



11 FRF offshore sand samples, 7 to 9 August 1979 77 



12 Duck aerial photography 84 



13 Summary of visual Littoral Environment Observations (LEO) 85 



14 Beach profile survey and sand sampling dates 86 



15 Ecological data for FRF 87 



FIGURES 



1 Location of the Field Research Facility 10 



2 CERC Field Research Facility 12 



3 The laboratory building 13 



4 i\erial mosaic and map of pier site 16 



5 The FRF during construction, with second pier in foreground 18 



6 Plan and profile views of the FRF 19 



7 The FRF computer center, showing the Data General NOVA-4 



minicomputer 20 



