Ms. Tess Hanson has worked as a river engineer for over 10 years on restoration projects across the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West and has restored over 250,000 linear feet of stream resources. Her academic and professional experience is centered in engineering, but spans a wide variety of disciplines, including fluvial geomorphology, riparian ecology, soil science, and fish biology. She has served as lead designer for over twenty river restoration projects, overseeing them from the assessment stage through the design and construction phases. Ms. Hanson holds a Bachelor of Science in Ecological Engineering from Oregon State University (OSU) and a Masters of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Colorado State University (CSU). As a research assistant at OSU, she contributed to hydraulics research at a biological research station, performing large-scale flume experiments and collecting hydraulic and geomorphic data to investigate fish behavior with respect to Engineered Log Jams. During her graduate studies, Hanson led a team that performed flume experiments to study sediment transport and bar development in meandering rivers. Her professional experience has included work for River Design Group, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, a watershed council (Grande Ronde Model Watershed), and ICF International Inc. This work has consisted of river restoration design, ecological assessments, hydraulic modeling, surveying, engineering plan set production, proposal and report preparation, construction oversight, and landowner coordination. She is a licensed engineer in Montana, Georgia and South Carolina. She has completed levels 1 and 2 of the Wildland Hydrology Applied Geomorphology (Rosgen) certification. She is proficient with AutoCAD Civil3D, HEC RAS, the iRIC suite, ESRI ArcMap, and various computer programming languages/platforms (Matlab, R, Visual Basic).