PREFACE 



This report ±s one of a series describing the results of the U.S. Army 

 Coastal Engineering Research Center's (CERC) Beach Evaluation Program. One 

 aspect of the program, and the subject of this report, is to provide basic 

 engineering information on changes in the volume of sand on beaches above mean 

 sea level, and on changes in shoreline position, as obtained from long-term 

 beach survey projects. The work was carried out under the Beach Profiles Studies 

 work unit, Beach Protection and Restoration Program, Coastal Engineering Area 

 of the Corps of Engineers Research and Development. 



The report was prepared by Dr. Martin C. Miller, Science Applications, Inc. 

 (SAI), Raleigh, North Carolina, under CERC contract No. DACW72-79-C-0020. Beach 

 profile surveys were performed by the W.W. Blanchard Company, Wallace, North 

 Carolina, under contract to the U.S. Army Engineer District, Wilmington. Visual 

 wave data were contributed by J.M. Clarke and E.D. Gray, M.V. Fleming, T.J. 

 Lawler, J. Buchanan, and B.R. Sims developed the CERC computer programs used 

 for editing, analyzing, and displaying the beach profile data. J.L. Miller, 

 J. A. Tarnowski, and K.P. Zirkle (CERC) assisted in data reduction. Eigenfunc- 

 tion analysis programs were written by D.G. Aubrey, Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The author acknowledges and appreciates 

 the helpful review comments from D.G. Aubrey, A.E. DeWall, and B.R. Hall (CERC), 

 and J.T. Jarrett, U.S. Army Engineer District, Wilmington. 



A.E. DeWall was the contract monitor, under the general supervision of 

 R.M. Sorenson, former Chief, Coastal Processes and Structures Branch, and 

 Mr. R.P. Savage, Chief, Research Division, CERC. 



Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E. 



Comments on this report are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 

 approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Pubic Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BISHOP I 

 Colonel, Corps of Engineers 

 Commander and Director 



