Table of Contents Noble, Xu, Rosenfeld, Largier, Hamilton, Jones, and Robertson, 2003, Huntington Beach Shoreline Contamination Investigation, Phase III: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 03-62, version 1.0

• Abstract
• 1. Background
• 2. Hypotheses
• 3. Objectives and Methods
• 4. Measurement Program
• 5. Major Findings:
  • 5.1. Surfzone Bacterial Contamination Patterns
    • 5.1.1. Multi-year patterns
    • 5.1.2. Summer 2001 patterns
  • 5.2. Outfall Plume Tracking
    • 5.2.1. Spatial Patterns of Plumes
    • 5.2.2. Bacteria Concentrations
  • 5.3. Coastal Transport Processes
    • 5.3.1. Subtidal Transport
    • 5.3.2. Diurnal and Semidiurnal transport
      • 5.3.2.1. Sea breeze and diurnal currents
      • 5.3.2.2. Semidiurnal currents
      • 5.3.2.3. Cross-shelf transport events in the coastal ocean
    • 5.3.3. Nearshore Cros-Shore Transport
    • 5.3.4. Resuspended Sediment Transport
• 6. Coastal Transport Processes and Their Relationship to Significant Bacterial Patterns
  • 6.1. Subtidal cross-shelf transport pathways: Newport Canyon
  • 6.2. Diurnal and semidiurnal transport pathways
  • 6.3. Coastal ocean event transport pathways
  • 6.4. Sediment transport pathways
  • 6.5. Nearshore transport pathways
• 7. Conclusions
• 8. References
• 9. Acknowledgements

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