J. Rose Wallick
Rose Wallick is a hydrologist at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center.
Rose Wallick is a hydrologist and geomorphologist who joined the U.S. Geological Survey's Oregon Water Science Center in 2007. Beginning in fall of 2014, Rose has also been the Supervisor of the ORWSC Geomorphology Team. Her research draws upon geomorphic mapping, hydraulic modeling, sediment transport analyses and historical datasets to assess channel response to natural and anthropogenic influences.
While she has worked throughout Oregon, Rose's recent research is focused in the Willamette Valley where she is leading a major geomorphic mapping study and previously led a multidisciplinary effort summarizing geomorphic and riparian vegetation processes of the present-day floodplain. Rose has also played a key role in the environmental flow research and monitoring projects for the Willamette Sustainable Rivers Program. In these and other projects, Rose collaborates closely with the restoration community and the many ecologists, fish biologists and other geomorphologists active in the basin.
Prior to joining the USGS she worked as a hydraulic engineer developing 1D and 2D river models for DHI, Inc.
Education and Certifications
B.Sc. in Watershed Science, Colorado State University
Dual M.S. degree in Geology and Bioresources Engineering, Oregon State University
Science and Products
Development of an Environmental Flow Framework for the McKenzie River Basin, Oregon
Channel change and bed-material transport in the Umpqua River basin, Oregon
Channel change and bed-material transport in the Lower Chetco River, Oregon
Preliminary assessment of vertical stability and gravel transport along the Umpqua River, southwestern Oregon
Initial fluvial response to the removal of Oregon's Marmot Dam
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Development of an Environmental Flow Framework for the McKenzie River Basin, Oregon
The McKenzie River is a tributary to the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon. The McKenzie River is approximately 90 miles in length and has a drainage area of approximately 1,300 square miles. Two major flood control dams, a hydropower dam complex, and two hydropower canals significantly alter streamflows in the river. The structures reduce the magnitude and frequency of large and small floodAuthorsJohn Risley, J. Rose Wallick, Ian Waite, Adam J. StonewallChannel change and bed-material transport in the Umpqua River basin, Oregon
The Umpqua River drains 12,103 km2 of western Oregon, heading in the Cascade Range and draining portions of the Klamath Mountains and Coast Range before entering the Pacific Ocean. Above the head of tide, the Umpqua River, along with its major tributaries, the North and South Umpqua Rivers, flows on a mixed bedrock and alluvium bed, alternating between bedrock rapids and intermittent, shallow gravAuthorsJ. Rose Wallick, Jim E. O'Connor, Scott Anderson, Mackenzie K. Keith, Charles Cannon, John C. RisleyChannel change and bed-material transport in the Lower Chetco River, Oregon
The lower Chetco River is a wandering gravel-bed river flanked by abundant and large gravel bars formed of coarse bed-material sediment. The large gravel bars have been a source of commercial aggregate since the early twentieth century for which ongoing permitting and aquatic habitat concerns have motivated this assessment of historical channel change and sediment transport rates. Analysis of histAuthorsJ. Rose Wallick, Scott W. Anderson, Charles Cannon, Jim E. O'ConnorPreliminary assessment of vertical stability and gravel transport along the Umpqua River, southwestern Oregon
This report addresses physical channel issues related to instream gravel mining on the Umpqua River and its two primary tributaries, the North and South Umpqua Rivers. This analysis constitutes a “Phase I” investigation, as designated by an interagency team cochaired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, and the Oregon Department of State Lands to address instream gravel mining iAuthorsJim E. O'Connor, J. Rose Wallick, Steven Sobieszczyk, Charles Cannon, Scott W. AndersonInitial fluvial response to the removal of Oregon's Marmot Dam
A temporary, 14‐meter‐high earthen cofferdam standing in place of Marmot Dam was breached on 19 October 2007, allowing the 80‐ kilometer‐long Sandy River to flow freely from Mount Hood, Oreg., to the Columbia River for the first time in nearly 100 years. Marmot Dam is one of the largest dams in the western United States (in terms of height and volume of stored sediment) to have been removed in theAuthorsJon J. Major, Kurt R. Spicer, Abagail Rhode, J. E. O'Connor, Heather M. Bragg, Dwight Q. Tanner, Chauncey W. Anderson, J. Rose Wallick, Gordon E. Grant