PREFACE 



Data and data summaries presented herein were collected during 1985 and 

 compiled at the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) Coastal 

 Engineering Research Center's (CERC's) Field Research Facility (FRF) in Duck, 

 N. C. This report is the seventh in a series of annual FRF data summaries 

 carried out under CERC's Waves and Coastal Flooding Program. 



The report was prepared by Mr. Herman C. Miller, Oceanographer, FRF, 

 under direct supervision of Mr. Curtis Mason, former Chief, FRF Group, Engi- 

 neering Development Division (EDD) , and Mr. Thomas W. Richardson, Chief, EDD; 

 and under general supervision of Dr. James R. Houston and Mr. Charles C. 

 Calhoun, Jr., Chief and Assistant Chief, CERC, respectively. Ms. Adele 

 Militello, Computer Scientist, assisted with software development and data 

 analysis; and Messrs. Michael W. Leffler, Computer Programmer Analyst, as- 

 sisted with data collection and analysis; William E. Grogg, Jr., Electronics 

 Technician, assisted with instrumentation; and Michael M. Dominguez, Amphibi- 

 ous Vehicle Operator, assisted with data collection. The National Oceanic and 

 Atmospheric Administration/National Ocean Service maintained the tide gage and 

 provided statistics for summarization. 



In addition, special thanks are extended to Messrs. William A. 

 Birkemeier, Research Hydraulic Engineer, for his supervision of the FRF sur- 

 veying program and Jeff Halpin, Computer Scientist, for his help in converting 

 analysis and summarization software to the new computer system. This report 

 was edited by Ms. Shirley A. J. Hanshaw, Information Products Division, Infor- 

 mation Technology Laboratory, WES. 



Commander and Director of WES during the publication of this report was 

 COL Dwayne G. Lee, CE; Technical Director was Dr. Robert W. Whalin. 



