Researcher Information - YOKOO Yoshiyuki |

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YOKOO Yoshiyuki

Department / Course Fukushima University Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science

Job Professor

Home Page
https://sites.google.com/sss.fukushima-u.ac.jp/whgfu-e/
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career
2024/04/01 ～ 2025/03/31	Assistant to the President Fukushima University
2021/04/01 ～	Professor Fukushima University
2021/04/01 ～	Professor (Adjunct) Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity
2017/03/01 ～ 2017/12/31	Visiting Researcher Delft University of Technology Department of Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
2013/06/01 ～ 2021/03/31	Associate Professor (Adjunct) Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity
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Academic background
1999/04/01～2002/03/25	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) Department of Civil Engineering Graduate School of Engineering Tohoku University FinishedPh.D. (Engineering)
1997/04/01～1999/03/25	Master Science and Engineering Course Graduate School of Science and Engineering University of Tsukuba FinishedMaster (Engineering)
1993/04/01～1997/03/25	Collage of Engineering Sciences Third Claster University of Tsukuba GraduatedBachelor (Engineering)

Present specialized field
Watershed Hydrology keyword(Watershed Hydrology,Water Resource Engineering,River Engineering,Hydraulics)

Research Subject
2021/04/01	Generation mechanisms of patterns in nature
2021/04/01	Sediment dynamics in watersheds
2020/04/01	Estimating water stage and flow rate in small rivers
2015/04/01	Relationship between watershed-scale rainwater storage and occurences of sediment disaster
2014/04/01	Scale issues in hydrological modeling
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Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
2022/06/16 ～ 2027/03/31	Impact of large-scale flood events on ocean circulation Grant-in-Aid for scientific research Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)
2021/07/09 ～ 2024/03/31	Searching for the mechanism of river channel network formation using the maximum entropy production principle and challenge to mathematical morphology Grant-in-Aid for scientific research
2020/04/01 ～ 2023/03/31	Accurate and continual water-level prediction in small rivers using inverse estimation method of rainfall-runoff processes Grant-in-Aid for scientific research
2020/04/01 ～ 2024/03/31	Study on chage of hydrological processes and environments in small rivers under the population decline Grant-in-Aid for scientific research
2019/04/01 ～ 2020/03/31	Estimating flow duration curves in ungauged basins
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Book and thesis
Books	River Engineering (Co-authored) 2020/09/11
Papers	Dynamics, particle size distribution and mineral composition of suspended sediment transport in the Abukuma River estuary Hydrological Research Letters 19 (1),pp.51-57 (Co-authored) 2025/03/08
Papers	A brief review of recent global trends in suspended sediment estimation studies Hydrological Research Letters 18 (2),pp.51-57 (Co-authored) 2024/04/13
Papers	Estimating suspended sediment discharge and its annual mass balance in the Japanese first-class watersheds Hydrological Research Letters 17 (4),pp.92-97 (Co-authored) 2023/12/08
Papers	A multiple hydrograph separation technique for identifying hydrological model structures and an interpretation of dominant process controls on flow duration curves Hydrological Processes 36 (4),pp.e14569-e14569 (Co-authored) 2022/04/17
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Academic conference presentation
2025/03/01	Preliminary field study for understanding estuarine suspended sediment dynamics at the Abukuma River, Japan (FY2024 Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Branch, Japan Society of Civil Engineers)
2024/12/11	Canopy interception dynamics during rainfall events revealed by multi-sensor data (American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024 (AGU2024))
2024/11/22	Suspended sediment transport in the Abukuma River estuary (The 12th International Symposium on Water Environment Systems - with Perspective of Global Safety)
2024/03/02	降雨流出過程の逆推定法における地表面過程のモデリング手法の探索 (令和5年度土木学会東北支部技術研究発表会)
2023/08/04	Estimating Annual Transports and Mass Balance of Suspended Solids in the Japanese First-class Watersheds (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 20th Annual Meeting (AOGS 2023))
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Works
2025/03/07	Introducing a data-based modeling of rainfall-runoff processes: past and future (Perth)

Winning science prize
2020/09/17	Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources Young Author Excellent Article Award 2020, Japan Society of Hydrology and water Resources (Awardee: Chris Leong, former student)
2020/09/17	Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources Excellent Article Award 2020, Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources

Educational ability

●Prepared Textbook and Other Teaching Materials

2020/09/16	River Engineering

Activity in society
2024/10/01 ～	文部科学省　国費留学生（研究留学生）の指導
2019/10/19	Entire area along major northeastern Japan river flooded as typhoon path matched flow
2019/05/03 ～ 2019/05/03	Estimating occurrence time and mechanisms of slope failures: a data-based modeling of rainfall-runoff processes
2019/05/03 ～ 2019/05/03	Estimating the timing of slope failure by data-based modeling approach

Belonging society
2016 ～	Japan Geoscience Union
2014 ～	Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
2004 ～	International Association of Hydrological Sciences
2002	Asia Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources
2002 ～	American Geophysical Union

Committee and society
2022/10/01 ～ 2024/09/30	Editorial Board of Hydrological Reseaech Letters Editor-in-Chief
2022/10/01 ～ 2024/09/30	Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources Chair of Committee on Editorial Affairs for International Journal
2022/10/01 ～ 2024/09/30	Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources Member of Committee on General Affairs
2022/10/01 ～	Research Institute of Synchrotron Radiation, Fukushima University
2013/05/01 ～ 2013/05/31	Division of Mathematics, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Reviewer