Osama Tarabih

Osama M. Tarabih, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering (RCSE) at Tulane University. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida where he also served as a Postdoctoral Scholar focusing on optimizing watershed management and reservoir operations to improve water quality in Lake Okeechobee, Florida. His expertise spans surface
water hydrology, watershed and reservoir modeling, water quality management, and ecological engineering, with extensive experience in Python-based modeling and decision-support tools for harmful algal bloom mitigation. At Tulane, Dr. Tarabih joined Dr. Ehab Meselhe’s research group to expand his knowledge into coastal modeling and to employ his expertise in coding and water quality to advance the group’s research goals. He has collaborated on multi-institutional, federally funded projects with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and has authored peer-reviewed publications in leading journals such as Environmental Modelling & Software, Ecological Engineering, and the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.