Field Research Facility
Duck, North Carolina
The Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory of the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station has hosted a series of increasingly complex, multi-investigator, multi-agency nearshore field experiments at its Field Research Facility. Three experiments, DELILAH, DUCK94, and SandyDuck, all have the basic goal of improving fundamental understanding and modeling of surf zone physics. Research emphasis on surf zone hydrodynamics in the presence of a changing barred bathymetry, sediment transport, morphologic evolution at bedform scales from ripples to nearshore bars and pilot scale instrument have been accomplished. The DUCK website summarizes these experiments, including participants, environmental conditions, data collected, and data availability.
Contact: William Birkemeier, USA Waterways Experiment Station, w.birkemeier@cerc,wes.army.mil
