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	Temporal dynamics and threshold behaviors of suspended sediment transport in the Abukuma River, Japan Hydrological Research Letter 20 (1),pp.60-66 (Co-authored) 2026/03/20
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
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Academic conference presentation
2026/03/07	Threshold discharge for coarse suspended sediment transport in the Abukuma river, Japan (FY2025 Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Branch, Japan Society of Civil Engineers)
2025/10/13	Exploring discharge-sediment load relationships and storm-driven hysteresis in the Abukuma River Estuary (Regional Climate Change Conference (RCCC 2025) - The Intersection of Climate Science, Adaptation, and Climate Financing: Focus on the Global South and Inclusivity-)
2025/08/01	A reconnaissance study on estuarine suspended sediment dynamics in the Abukuma River, Japan (The 22nd Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2025))
2025/07/31	A virtual experiment on the effectiveness of planned inundation as a watershed flood control strategy in a depopulation are (The 22nd Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2025))
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)
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Works
2025/03/07	Introducing a data-based modeling of rainfall-runoff processes: past and future (Perth)

Winning science prize
2026/03/24	Fukushima University President Award in fiscal year 2025 （Awarded to Sheikh Hefzul Bari, a former student）
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 ～ 2025/09/30	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