Desiree Tullos

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Professor
tullosd@engr.orst.edu
541-737-2038

124 SW 26th Street
Rm 233
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

  • Ecohydraulics
  • River engineering and restoration
  • Systems analysis in water resources management
  • Hydrodynamic modeling
  • Sustainable flood management
  • Sediment management in reservoirs
  • Control of Harmful Algal Blooms
OSU Organizations
Biological and Ecological Engineering
Courses Taught
  • ENGR 102 - Natural Infrastructure for Climate Resilience
  • BEE 312 - Ecohydraulic Engineering
  • BEE 446/546 - River Engineering
Graduate Students
Kristine Alford
Lab Group
Desiree Tullos
Personal Links
Desiree Tullos Lab - River Engineering & Restoration at OSU
Curriculum Vitae
tullos_dossier_20210907.docx
Education
  • 2000 - B.S. Civil Engr. - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  • 2002 - M. Civil Engr. - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
  • 2005 - Ph.D. Biological Engr. - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Professional certifications and licenses

  • Licensed Professional Civil Engineer, certificate #85485PE (2011– present)
  • Diplomate of Water Resources Engineering (2014-present)
Employment

Full Professor, July 2017-present
Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering Department, Corvallis, OR

Associate Professor, July 2011-2017
Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering Department, Corvallis, OR

Fulbright Scholar, October 2011-September 2012
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Assistant Professor September 2005– July 2011
Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering Department, Corvallis, OR

Visiting Scientist, May-September 2005
Chinese Academy of Sciences: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Beijing, China

Teaching/Research Assistant September 2000– June 2005
North Carolina State University, Civil and Agricultural Engineering Departments, Raleigh, NC

Engineering Consultant, January 2002– December 2002
Blue Land Water Infrastructure, Clayton, NC

  • 2005 – North American Benthological Society (NABS) President's Award
  • 2009 – NSF's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award
  • 2012- Fulbright Fellow
  • 2021 - AGU Voices for Science fellow
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mk9u78sAAAAJ&view_op=list_works…
PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=desiree+tullos
My Publications

2017

William Jaeger, Amos, Adell, Bigelow, Daniel P., Chang, Heejun, Conklin, David R., et al., (2017), Finding water scarcity amid abundance using human–natural system models, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(45)

2016

Desiree Tullos, Cara Walter, Jason B Dunham, (2016), Does resolution of flow field observation influence apparent habitat use and energy expenditure in juvenile coho salmon?, Water Resources Research,
Pace, Kylie Marie, Desiree Tullos, Cara Walter, Lancaster, Stephen, Segura, Catalina, (2016), Sediment Pulse Behavior Following Dam Removal in Gravel-Bed Rivers, River Research and Applications,
Stanton, Alan, Desiree Tullos, Sharad K Jain, (2016), Impacts and Biases of Storm Regime and Sampling Networks on Extreme Precipitation Measurements across the Western Himalayas, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,
Dimri, AP, Thayyen, RJ, Kibler, K, Stanton, A, Sharad K Jain, et al., (2016), A review of atmospheric and land surface processes with emphasis on flood generation in the Southern Himalayan rivers, Science of the Total Environment, 556
Desiree Tullos, Byron, Elizabeth, Galloway, Gerald, Obeysekera, Jayantha, Prakash, Om, et al., (2016), Review of challenges of and practices for sustainable management of mountain flood hazards, Natural Hazards, 83

2015

Wang, Hsiao-Wen, Desiree Tullos, Kuo, Wei-Cheng, (2015), Simulating bed evolution following the Barlin Dam (Taiwan) failure with implications for sediment dynamics modeling of dam removal, International Journal of Sediment Research,
Desiree Tullos, Cara Walter, Jason B Dunham, (2015), Consequences of scale of flow field observation on apparent energy expenditure and habitat selection by juvenile coho, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts,
DiFrancesco, Kara N, Desiree Tullos, (2015), Assessment of flood management systems’ flexibility with application to the Sacramento River basin, California, USA, International Journal of River Basin Management, 13
Mateus, Cristina, Desiree Tullos, Surfleet, Christopher G, (2015), Hydrologic sensitivity to climate and land use changes in the Santiam River basin, Oregon, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 51
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