Tarick Abu-Aly

Tarick Abu-Aly is a principal civil engineer and hydrologist who leads Balance’s Bay Area restoration design practice. He believes that thoughtful planning and environmentally conscious design can restore health, function, and resilience to impaired ecosystems while simultaneously enhancing public health and safety. Tarick is a civil engineer by training, with a diverse background in geomorphology, river hydraulics, and stream ecology. After completing his master’s degree at UC Davis with a thesis on hydraulic modeling of the Lower Yuba River, Tarick entered the consulting realm, refining his understanding of natural channel processes and implementing a wide variety of stream and wetland restoration designs. Throughout his career, Tarick has assisted federal, state, and local agencies as well as environmental nonprofits and water managers with large-scale, multi-year restoration efforts and hydraulic river modeling projects. By using state-of-the-art modeling tools to tell a visual and compelling story, Tarick conveys detailed technical information to stakeholders and non-technical audiences in a manner that clearly communicates a project’s constraints and benefits. He has a thorough knowledge of regulatory permitting requirements, enabling him to streamline the permitting process by presenting designs that provide meaningful environmental benefits while also protecting critical infrastructure. Tarick’s field experience includes directing aerial mapping and remote sensing data collection efforts using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as conventional topographic and bathymetric data collection.