Employee Profiles: Senior Professionals

Dale R. Marcum

Associate Geological Engineer

Registration

Registered Professional Civil Engineer in California, RCE 65837

Education

M.S., Geotechnical Engineering: University of California, Berkeley, California, 1987
B.A., Geology: Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado, 1983

Areas of Specialization

Rock and soil slope characterization and stability analysis; Engineering geologic mapping, hazard mapping and risk assessment; Subsurface investigation, small and large diameter drilling and coring; Instrumentation design, installation and analysis for rock and soil sites; Laboratory testing, program design and analysis; Stability analyses, rock and soil slopes, two and three dimensional limit equilibrium; Mitigation design, retaining walls, tieback shear pins, rock anchors and bolts

Representative Experience

Mr. Marcum has over 22 years of experience in the geotechnical field, working on geologic and geotechnical projects in both northern and southern California and Hawaii.

As a Senior Geological Engineer, Mr. Marcum has extensive experience with geologic hazard mapping, rock and soil slope stability analyses, design of stabilization measures and instrumentation design for rock and soil slopes. This includes geologic mapping, installation of instrumentation and analysis of a large and deep rockslide at a limestone quarry in Cupertino; geologic mapping, instrument installation and three-dimensional analyses of the Big Rock Mesa rockslide in Malibu and the Hulu-Woolsey landslide on Oahu, Hawaii; mapping and instrument installation in several seismically activated (Loma Prieta Earthquake) rockslides in the Santa Cruz Mountains for the Corps of Engineers; the geologic and geotechnical assessment of twenty three penstocks and siphons in the central and southern Sierra Nevada; engineering geologic mapping and kinematic rock slope stability assessment at two of PG&E's Forebay dam abutments; evaluation of landslides and debris flow potential along an 8-mile long diversion pipeline in the Sierra Nevada, and the detailed engineering geologic mapping, instrumentation analysis and rock slope stability assessment of a penstock and siphon owned by PG&E in the northern Sierra Nevada. He also completed an engineering geologic investigation for a proposed quarry in Monterey County that included engineering geologic mapping, discontinuity characterization and rock slope stability analyses. Mr. Marcum also served as an independent reviewer for the analysis of a potential rockslide at PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power Plant. The work included a review of engineering geologic mapping, drilling and logging of core, laboratory testing of rock and soil samples, static and seismic slope stability analyses, seismic displacement (Newmark) analyses and rock slope kinematic analyses and bolt design.

Many of these projects involved the design of remediation measures including low and high capacity rock bolts and deep rock anchors, cantilevered and tied-back concrete shear pins, grading repairs involving removal and replacement of the unstable material and/or the installation of earth buttresses, cantilevered retaining walls and lowering the ground water table using both vertical and horizontal drains. He has investigated and analyzed the stability of soil and rock slopes using the UTEXAS3, CLARA, XSTABL, BLOCK, DIPS, SWEDGE and FLAC computer programs, and is experienced with using the program DISPLMT for determination of permanent seismically induced displacements.

Mr. Marcum also has extensive experience with geotechnical instrumentation systems for large and small landslides. The monitoring systems have included inclinometers, open tube piezometers, strain gauge and vibrating wire piezometers, survey reflector prisms for an EDM based theodolite, point and magnet extensometers, rod extensometers and tiltmeters.

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Civil Engineers
American Public Works Association

Selected Publications

ANALYSIS OF LANDSLIDES IN THE EPICENTRAL REGION REACTIVATED BY THE 1989 LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE, CENTRAL SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA: in review (with W. F. Cole, P. O. Shires and B. R. Clark), in The Loma Prieta, California Earthquake of October 17, 1989, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.

ANALYSIS OF LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE-TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES, CENTRAL SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA: 1991, (with W. F. Cole, P. O. Shires, B. R. Clark, and R. P. Lozinsky), Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section 87th Annual Meeting, March 25-27, 1991, San Francisco, California, Abstracts with Programs, p.63.

INVESTIGATION OF LANDSLIDES TRIGGERED BY THE 1989 LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE AND EVALUATION OF ANALYSIS METHODS: 1991 (with W. F. Cole, P. O. Shires, and B. R. Clark), Final Technical Report to U. S. Geological Survey, National Earthquakes Hazards Reduction Program, Grant Award No. 14-08-0001-G1860.

 

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