Cadet Research Documents Dredging Need You can forgive Cal For Rose the task involved Maritime Transportation major looking at over a million Julian Rose (’10) from looking a pieces of data, compiled on little “bleary eyed” at times when 360 different chart sections you recognize that for much of his from the Corps’ archives. Any junior year he was studying lots time the number was smaller and lots of numbers….15 years than the 35-foot depth called worth of depth records for the San for by project specifications, Francisco Bay shipping channels it was highlighted. His between Angel Island and the Bull’s detailed research provided Head Channel north of Benicia. clear evidence that, as Bayer Rose was assigned to the task and others had suspected, by Cal Maritime alumnus Capt. the channels were not being Marc Bayer (D ’82), Manager of consistently dredged to proper West Coast Shipping Operations depth. “In some areas, spring for Tesoro Refining of Martinez, flooding conditions could and chair of the Western States re-silt sections of the channel Capt. Marc Bayer (D-’82), Manager of West Petroleum Association’s Marine within weeks of a dredging,” Coast Shipping Operations for Tesoro Refining of Committee. WSPA and other Rose said. Martinez and chair of the Western States Petroleum Association Marine Committee, with Cal Maritime organizations with maritime “California’s inland Transportation major Julian Rose (‘10) look over interests in the Bay region had long waterways are part of a critical charts of the shipping channel in upper felt that area shipping channels transportation infrastructure San Francisco Bay. Detailed research by were not being consistently dredged for California and the nation,” Rose found that the channel has not to proper depths, but needed Bayer noted. “This data clearly been consistently dredged to its required depth. hard data to prove their point. demonstrates the need for Bayer turned to Cal Maritime for improved maintenance and volunteer assistance and Rose, who came to the University after dredging of these important marine highways,“ Bayer added. “It service as a Navy Quartermaster, was a perfect choice, given may also help improve dredging efficiency and cost-effectiveness his experience working with maps and chart He worked with through possible channel shifts into areas with lower silting, and historic channel depth records compiled by the Army Corps of allow the Corps to focus on specific trouble spots.” Engineers — the federal agency charged with dredging ports, Cal Maritime Captain Sam Pecota, Chair of Cal Maritime’s harbors and channels throughout the country. As part of its Marine Transportation Department and himself a licensed ongoing work, the Corps periodically conducts depth soundings dredge captain, has also been looking at the information. He of the channels it dredges. The data collected appears as a string suggests that Cal Maritime’s new Simulation Center could well of numbers for each pass across the channel. Each number be used to test possible channel locations and their effects before records the depth at that specific location in the transit. making final decisions.
Cal Maritime – It’s a Family In looking back through our Alumni records, we began realizing that there are a substantial number of Cal Maritime graduates who represent a second or a third generation of familes whose sons and daughters, grandchildren and even great grandchildren, nieces and nephews have Cal Maritime
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attended the Academy. One such example would be a grandfatherson-grandson kinship such as this: