1. The Nsts Field Experiment Sites -- A. Torrey Pines Experiment -- B. Santa Barbara Experiment -- C. Rudee Inlet Experiment -- 2. Measuring The Incident Wave Field -- A. Torrey Pines Experiment -- B. Santa Barbara and Rudee Inlet Experiments -- 3. Measuring the Nearshore Morphology -- A. Methods for Position Control and Beach Face Profiling -- B. Offshore Surveys -- 4. Measuring Surf Zone Dynamics -- A. General Measurements -- B. Field Measurements of Rip Currents -- C. Measurement Errors for Electromagnetic Current Meters -- 5. Measuring Sediment Dynamics -- A. Discrete Sampling of Bedload and Suspended Load -- B. Continuous Bedload Sampling -- C. Continuous Suspended Load Sampler -- 6. Transport Determination by Tracers -- A. Tracer Theory -- B. Application of Tracer Theory to NSTS Experiments -- 7. Data Recording -- A. NSTS Data System -- B. Wave Network System -- 8. Wind Wave Transformation -- 9. Run-Up and Surf Beat -- 10. Nearshore Circulation -- A. Conservation Equations for Unsteady Flow -- B. Rip Currents and Wave Groups -- 11. Suspended Sediment Measurements -- A. Continuous Measurements of Suspended Sediment -- B. Discrete Measurements of Suspended Sediment -- 12. Cross-Shore Transport -- 13. Measuring Longshore Transport with Tracers -- 14. Measuring Longshore Transport with Traps -- 15. Models for Surf Zone Dynamics -- 16. State of the Art in Oscillatory Sediment Transport Models -- 17. Modeling Cross-Shore Transport -- Indexes -- A. Author Index -- B. Subject Index.