Abstract
It was our intention to design a program for measuring seasonal beach profiles and wave characteristics that would be both educational and useful to coastal zone managers. The program consisted of daily, visual wave observations and beach surveys conducted on every other spring low tide (approximately monthly) for nine months. The techniques were straightforward and the measurements were made by volunteer high school students. In our study area the beaches were about 50 m wide and a team of three students could complete one profile every 20 minutes. The number of stations was chosen so that surveys could be completed within one hour of low water and so that duplicate profiles could be done at half the stations. The stations were spaced about 150 m apart along undisturbed sections of beach as well as near groins, bulkheads, and revetments. The stations were leveled with respect to mean sea level. The results included measures of the seasonal volumetric changes along the beach; changes in beach width, berm ...
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