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（Last updated : 2024-04-08 15:38:30）

SATOFUKA Yoshifumi

Department / Course College of Science and Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Science and Engineering
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage
3.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Frontier Research Center for Natural Disaster Mitigation
4.	Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization Asia-Japan Research Institute
5.	Research Organization of Social Science (BKC)

Academic background
1.	2001/03 Degree Acquisition	│ Kyoto University Ph.D. (Engineering)
2.	～1987/03	Department of Transportation Engineering │ Faculty of Engineering │ Kyoto University │ Graduated
3.	～1989/03	Master Course │ Transportation and Civil Engineering Major │ Graduate School, Division of Engineering │ Kyoto University │ Completed

Research activities
1.		Japan Society of Civil Engineering
2.		Japan Society of Erosion Control Engineering
3.		Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science

Subject of research
1.	Watershed management

Research summary
Watershed management 1. Prediction of sediment runoff in a watershed 2. Sediment transportation and river bed variation 3. Mechanism of a debris flow 4. Joint research between hydraulics and biology

Present specialized field
Water Control Science, Forestry/Forest Engineering (Keyword：River engineering, Erosion control, Sediment transportation)

Papers
1.	2024/04/08	Feasibility of Using Permeable Block Sabo Dams Incorporating Breakwater Structures for Volcanic Sediment Management │ International Journal of Erosion Control Engineering │ 17 (2),pp.27-34 (Co-authored)
2.	2024/03/20	RISK-LEVEL ASSESSMENT OF SMALL-SCALE MOUNTAIN STREAMS USING A DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL │ Journal of JSCE │ 12 (1),pp.1-16 (Co-authored)
3.	2022/07	A study on a risk assessment method to evaluate small-scale sediment inflows on railroad tracks │ Journal of JSCE │ 10,pp.348-367 (Co-authored)
4.	2021/07/02	Numerical simulation method for predicting a flood hydrograph due to progressive failure of a landslide dam │ Landslides │ 18 (11),pp.3655-3670 (Co-authored)
5.	2020/11/05	Amplification of flood discharge caused by the cascading failure of landslide dams │ International Journal of Sediment Research │ (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2019/08	Debris-wood capture effect controled by concrete-slit dam under low-gradient flow (37th IAHR World Congress)
2.	2019/06/12	Debris-flow behavior containing fine sediment considering phase shift (Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation)
3.	2019/06/12	Flume experiment on the influence of particle size distribution on sediment capturing efficiency of open-type steel Sabo dams (Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation)
4.	2019/06/12	Numerical simulation for evaluationg the phase-shift on fine sediment in stony debris flows (Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation)
5.	2019/06/12	Steel stakes to capture debris-wood on an impermeable type sabo dam (Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation)
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Winning science prize
1.	2013/09	Ｉｎｔｅｒｎａｔｉｏｎａｌ　Ｓｙｍｐｏｓｉｕｍ　ｏｎ　Ｒｉｖｅｒ　Ｓｅｄｉｍｅｎｔａｔｉｏｎ Excellent Paper Award (Numerical simulation of landslide dam deformation caused by erosion)

Message
1.	Sustainable development of watersheds We have to know the mechanism of water and sediment runoff prosesses in drainage basin for the safety of society. I want to study about them and contribute to the sustainable development of society.