DUCK85 Field Data Collection Project 



9. During September and October 1985, CERC hosted and participated in a 

 major multidisciplinary and multi- institutional nearshore processes field data 

 collection project called DUCK85 (Mason, Birkemeier, and Howd 1987). The name 

 DUCK85 derives from the location of CERC's Field Research Facility (FRF), the 

 site of the experiment, which is located near the village of Duck, North 

 Carolina, on the Outer Banks barrier islands (Figure 1). More than 50 

 researchers from CERC, other Government agencies, universities, and organiza- 

 tions from overseas participated in DUCK85 to conduct a wide variety of near- 

 shore process experiments as well as to evaluate and perfect newly developed 

 instrumentation and measurement methods. 



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Figure 1. Location map for the FRF 



