Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences was first conceived, published, and dis seminated by the Center for lnformation and Numerica/ Data Analysis and Synthesis (C/NDAS) * at Purdue University in 1957, starting its coverage of theses with the academic year 1955. Beginning with Volume 13, the printing and dissemination phases of the ac tivity were transferred to University Microfilms/Xerox of Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the thought that such an arrangement would be more beneficia! to the academic and general scientific and technical community. After fi ve years of this joint undertaking we had concluded that it was in the interest of ali concerned if the printing and distribution of the volume were handled by an international publishing house to assure improved service and broader dissemination. Hence, starting with Volume 18, Masters Theses in the Pure and App/ied Sciences has been disseminated on a worldwide basis by Plenum Publishing Corporation of New York, and in the same year the coverage was broadened to include Canadian universities. Ali back issues can also be ordered from Plenum. We have reported in Volume 21 (thesis year 1976) a total of 10,586 theses titles from 25 Canadian and 219 United States universities. We are sure that this broader base for theses titles reported will greatly enhance the value of this important annual reference work.

This Station (WES) was requested to assist in the preliminary evaluation of the wave climate at alternate potential Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal sites by applying existing hindcast wave data of a general nature to obtain estimates of the times of excessive wave conditions at the various sites. After the preliminary evaluation was completed, WES was again requested to assist by analyzing the effects of island sheltering and topographic influences on the wave climates of six offshore sites in order to provide a more refined estimate of the wave conditions existing at the potential sites. Because of the absence of a comprehensive deepwater wave hindcast data base of sufficient degree of confidence to permit estimates of the absolute magnitude of occurrences of waves of different periods and heights, the analysis conducted is a relative evaluation only and should not be interpreted as projections of actual downtime, but rather as a consistently uniform basis for comparison. When the appropriate topographic coefficients had been applied to the deepwater hindcast wave data and the resulting wave climate at the potential offshore LNG site had been obtained, it was required that the effects of this resultant wave climate be determined on four possible terminal concepts at each of the six sites. These four concepts include: (a) fixed terminal with one pier, (b) fixed terminal with two piers, (c) floating barge, and (d) deepwater mooring tower.