Publications
2025
Tilt, B. and R. Wheaton. 2025. “Using Cultural Models to Understand Water
Management Priorities after Dam Removal in the Klamath River Basin.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference, Portland, OR, March.
Wheaton, R. and B. Tilt. 2025. “Cultural Models and Fisheries Management:
Perspectives from the Lower Klamath Basin Ocean Salmon Fisheries.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference, Portland, OR, March.
Wheaton, R. 2025. “Cultural Models of the Salmon Fishing Fleet in the Klamath
Management Zone.” Posted presented at State of the Coast conference. Coos Bay, OR, November.
Tullos, D. 2025. “Reservoir erosion and its water quality impacts from the world’s
largest dam removal.” Invited seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
October, 2025.
Vanderzanden, H. and Tullos, D. 2025. “Community shifts: Aquatic plant and
algae growth in the Klamath River with varying sediment loads and peak flows after the world’s largest dam removal.” College of Agricultural Sciences Undergraduate Research Showcase, Corvallis, OR. September, 2025.•
Tullos, D. et al. 2025. Reservoir erosion and its water quality impacts on the
Klamath River dam removals. Invited speaker, Salmon Restoration Federation. Santa Cruz, CA. April, 2025.
Tullos, D. et al. 2025. Reservoir erosion and its water quality impacts on the
Klamath River dam removals. Invited speaker, Bretz Club, Chiloquin, OR. April 2025.
Genzoli, L. 2025. Benthic cyanobacterial proliferations drive anatoxin production
throughout the Klamath River watershed, California, USA. Hynes Award for new
investigators keynote presentation to the Society for Freshwater Sciences. San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 2025.
Tang, I., Tullos, D., Genzoli, L., Bellmore J. R., Oberholzer-Dent, J. May 21, Factors Limiting Filamentous Algae and Rooted Macrophyte Growth During Dam
Removal in the Klamath River. Society for Freshwater Science, Annual Meeting. San Juan, PR. Poster.
Tang, I., Tullos, D., Genzoli, L., Bellmore J. R., Oberholzer-Dent, J. May 1, 2025.
Factors Limiting Filamentous Algae and Rooted Macrophyte Growth During Dam
Removal in the Klamath River. Salmonid Restoration Federation, Annual
Meeting. Santa Cruz, CA. Presentation..
2024
Boone, Hannah. 2024. “Conservationists’ Cultural Models of the Klamath River Dam Removal and Restoration Project: Current Challenges and Future Visions.” MS Thesis, Applied Anthropology, Oregon State University.
Davis, Jenna. 2024. “Social Dynamics of Water: A Cultural Model for Farmers’ and Ranchers’ Resource Manaement Priorities in the Klamath River Basin.” MS Thesis, Applied Anthropology, Oregon State University.
Kolesar, S.E., P. Ruggiero, D. Tullos, J.H. Tilt, B. Tilt, and B.M. Thompson. (2024) Challenges and strategies for knowledge co-production in ecosystem and natural hazards research. Oceanography 37(1):19–25, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.225.
2023
Tullos, D., Tilt, B., Alexander, J., and Pike, J. 2023. Resilience and connectivity in the Klamath River Basin. StoryMap available at: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/22a4f688d40547769380728a854cc699
Media
2025
Modus (2025) When dams fall, rivers flow: balancing heritage and habitat.
Oregon Stater Magazine (2025) Rewilding the Klamath. Feature article in the winter 2025 edition, distributed to over 200,000 households.
2024
OPB (2024) Water quality discussed after completion of Klamath reservoir drawdown
OSU (2024) River Rebalance. Engineering Out Loud podcast episode. S14E2.
2023
Resilience (2023) Klamath Countdown: Researchers Hustle Before Largest Dam-Removal Project Begins
The Revelator (2023) Klamath Countdown: Researchers Hustle Before Largest Dam-Removal Project Begins
PBS Terra Episode (2023) Is the Future of California’s Salmon Dam Removal?
OSU (2023) Unrestricted Flow. A short film on how the dam removals have created learning opportunities for OSU students outside of the classroom.
2022
OPB (2022) The world’s largest dam removal will touch many lives in the Klamath River Basin
JPR (2022) OSU and Yuroks team up to envision dam-free Klamath River
JPR (2022) The world’s largest dam removal will touch many lives in the Klamath River Basin
KBND (2022) OSU To Study Impacts Of Klamath Dam Removal
Presentations
2024
Tang, I. (2025). Factors Limiting Filamentous Algae and Rooted Macrophyte
Growth During Dam Removal in the Klamath River, MS thesis, Water Resources
Engineering, Oregon State University.
Tilt, B., H. Boone, J. Davis, and R. Wheaton. (Under Review). “Using Cultural
Models to Identify Water Management Priorities after the Klamath River Dam
Removals.” Submitted to Society and Natural Resources.
Tilt, B. R. Wheaton, H. Boone, and J. Davis. (Under Review). “What is a River
For? Applying a Moral Economy Framework to Understand Dam Removal and
River Restoration on the Klamath River.” Submitted to Human Organization.
Tang, I. Genzoli, L, Oberholzer-Dent, J., Bellmore, R. and Tullos, D. (in prep)
Factors Limiting Filamentous Algae and Rooted Macrophyte Growth During Two
Consecutive High-Turbidity Years in the Klamath River. Submitted to Freshwater
Science.
Nuckoles, W and Tullos, D (in review). Channel evolution during drawdown of
Iron Gate and Copco Reservoirs, Klamath River, CA. Submitted to J. of
Geophysical Research – Earth Surface.
2024
Tullos, D., Alford, K, Genzoli, L., & Thompson, B. 2024. Water quality, primary production, and river health in the pre-dam removal Klamath River based on multiple ways of knowing. World Fisheries Congress, Seattle, WA, March 2024.
Alford, K., Tullos, D., and Peterson, J. October 18, 2024. An Evaluation of the Mechanisms Driving Dissolved Oxygen During the Klamath Dam Removal. American Fisheries Society Conference. Honolulu, HI.
Alford, K., Tullos, D., and Peterson, J. May 21, 2024. An Evaluation of the Mechanisms Driving Dissolved Oxygen During the Klamath Dam Removal. Pacific Northwest Water Research Symposium. Corvallis, OR
Tullos, D. and Tilt, B. 2024. Un-Damming the Klamath: River Health as Defined By Its Ecosystems & Its Peoples. Science on Tap. Vancouver, WA. September 11, 2024.
Tullos, D. 2024. Un-Damming the Klamath: River Health as Defined By Its Ecosystems & Its Peoples. Academy of Lifelong Learning, Corvallis, OR. October 24, 2024.
Tilt, B., Boone, H., Davis, J. Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM. March, 2024.
2023
Tullos, D., Alford, K, Genzoli, L., & Thompson, B. 2023. Water quality, primary production, and river health in the pre-dam removal Klamath River based on multiple ways of knowing. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 2023.
Tullos, D and Tilt, B. 2023. Dam Removal and Beyond: Socioecological Perspectives on river health in the Klamath River. Oregon State University Science pub. November, 2023.
2022
Tullos, D and Alexander, J. 2022. Anticipating the effects of dam removal on the Klamath River water quality, food web, and disease risk. Klamath Basin Monitoring Program annual meeting. November 09, 2022. Available online at: https://kbmp.net/documents/meeting-minutes
Alexander, J. and Tullos, D. 2022. Removing the compost heaps: Anticipating the effects of dam removal on the Klamath River water quality, food web, and disease risk Society for Freshwater Science PNW October 19-21 2022.
Tullos, D., Alexander, J., and Genzoli, L. 2022. Water quality, food webs, and equitable decisions in the Klamath. American Geophysical Union, Chicago, IL, December 2022.
Tilt, Bryan. “Remaking a River: Dam Removal and Ecological Restoration in the Pacific Northwest.” Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2022.
