Desiree Tullos

Professor
tullosd [at] engr.orst.edu

Office: 541-737-2038
Fax: 541-737-2082

Gilmore Hall

Gilmore Hall 233

124 SW 26th Street

124 SW 26th Street
Corvallis, OR 97331
  • Ecohydraulics
  • River engineering and restoration
  • Systems analysis in water resources management
  • Hydrodynamic modeling

Current Research: 

  • Responses to river restoration and engineering, including dam removal, engineered log jams, and dam reoperation
  • Impacts of dam operations on flood risk reduction, water supply, hydropower generation, and environmental requirements
  • Analysis of uncertainty in water resources modeling
  • Effects of hydropower development in China
  • Water quantity and quality dynamics of agricultural and restored riparian wetlands
  • Mechanics of flow around dense vegetation
  • Sediment management in reservoirs
  • Reservoir operations under climate change
  • Sediment dynamics of dam removal
  • Fluid and fish behavior around engineered log jams
Curriculum Vitae: 
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Profile Field Tabs

At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Biological and Ecological Engineering
Career Links: 
River Engineering & Restoration at OSU
Courses Taught: 
  • BEE 102 - Ecological Engineering II - Applications
  • BEE 312 - Ecohydraulic Engineering
  • BEE 446/546 - River Engineering
My Publications

2016

Journal Article

A. P. Dimri, Thayyen, R. J., Kibler, K., Stanton, A., Jain, S. K., Tullos, D., and Singh, V. P., “A review of atmospheric and land surface processes with emphasis on flood generation in the Southern Himalayan rivers”, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 556, pp. 98–115, 2016.
D. Tullos, Walter, C., and Dunham, J. B., “Does resolution of flow field observation influence apparent habitat use and energy expenditure in juvenile coho salmon?”, Water Resources Research, 2016.
A. Stanton, Tullos, D., and Jain, S. K., “Impacts and Biases of Storm Regime and Sampling Networks on Extreme Precipitation Measurements across the Western Himalayas”, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, p. 04016034, 2016.
D. Tullos, Byron, E., Galloway, G., Obeysekera, J., Prakash, O., and Sun, Y. - H., “Review of challenges of and practices for sustainable management of mountain flood hazards”, Natural Hazards, vol. 83, pp. 1763–1797, 2016.
K. Marie Pace, Tullos, D., Walter, C., Lancaster, S., and Segura, C., “Sediment Pulse Behavior Following Dam Removal in Gravel-Bed Rivers”, River Research and Applications, 2016.

2015

Conference Paper

D. Tullos, Walter, C., and Dunham, J. B., “Consequences of scale of flow field observation on apparent energy expenditure and habitat selection by juvenile coho”, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2015.

Journal Article

K. N. DiFrancesco and Tullos, D., “Assessment of flood management systems’ flexibility with application to the Sacramento River basin, California, USA”, International Journal of River Basin Management, vol. 13, pp. 271–284, 2015.
J. P. P. Zunka, Tullos, D., and Lancaster, S. T., “Effects of sediment pulses on bed relief in bar-pool channels”, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 40, pp. 1017–1028, 2015.
D. Tullos and Walter, C., “Fish use of turbulence around wood in winter: physical experiments on hydraulic variability and habitat selection by juvenile coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch”, Environmental Biology of Fishes, vol. 98, pp. 1339–1353, 2015.
C. Mateus, Tullos, D., and Surfleet, C. G., “Hydrologic sensitivity to climate and land use changes in the Santiam River basin, Oregon”, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 51, pp. 400–420, 2015.

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