MIYAMOTO Hitoshi

• 2024 - 2028 Exploring water temperature variability in Asia through high-resolution satellite big data
• 2020 - 2023 Optimal Management Strategy on Forested River Channels Considering the Interaction between Flood Control Security and Fluvial Ecosystem Conservation
• 2020 - 2023 Development of 3D temperature monitoring and predicting system in reservoirs using UAV
• 2020 - 2022 Development of a vegetation dynamics model in a wetland environment considering groundwater level fluctuation characteristics and plant competition
• 2016 - 2020 Observational Evidence and Mechanistic Insight on the Regeneration Process of Riverine Forestation from a Massive Flood Impact
2018 - 2019 Development of detection technology for forested river channels using multi-resolution analysis of UAV images
2013 - 2016 Development of a probabilistic diagnostic model for river forestation phenomena based on a systematic understanding of the actual conditions and factors, and proposal of a technology for integrated water system management of trees in river channels
2011 - 2014 Strategic study on ecohydraulic properties of overgrown vegetation on floodplain aiming at sustainable river management
2011 - 2013 Impact assessment for the river environment due to climate change and human activities evaluated by focusing on the network structure of river systems
2010 - 2011 Development of a model for analyzing the growth and decline of trees in river channels, taking into account the uncertainty of flow fluctuations
2010 - 2011 Analysis on symbiosis of catchment sphere to nature and its application to regional restoration
2008 - 2010 Development of a river-system propagation model of environmental impacts focusing on the network structure of river basins
2006 - 2007 Performance evaluation of water surface ripples as a visible tracer for river local remote sensing
2002 - 2003 Design of rubble mound river structures from a view point of hydrospheric environment
2002 - 2003 Study on organic pollution of reservoirs caused by vegetation residues from the watershed
2000 - 2001 Water pollution mechanisms caused by bottom sediments in limnology and coastal waters and methods for improving water environments
2000 - 2001 Countermeasure for prevention of reservoir eutrophication by controlling thermo-solutal convection
2000 - 2001 Study on hydro-environmental properties of rubble weir constructed of coarse rokcs
1999 - 2000 Development of measurement technology for three-dimensional suspended solids concentration distribution using image information
1998 - 1999 Thermosolutal transport in reservoirs generated by release and leaching of salinity and nutrients from anaerobic bed
1997 - 1998 Study on design improvement for river environments considering the equilibrium between hydraulics and ecosystems in rivers

• Yudai Nemoto, Takumi Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Oishi, Hitoshi Miyamoto. Relationships Between Floodplain Topography, Peat, Soil Moisture, and Alder Growth over a Decade After River Meandering Restoration in the Kushiro Wetlands, Hokkaido, Japan. Sustainability. 2025
• Naoya Maeda, Hitoshi Miyamoto. A Logistic Regression Model for the Prediction of Vegetation Recruitment in the Kinu River, Japan. River Research and Applications. 2025
• Naoya Maeda, Hayato Suzuki, Hitoshi Miyamoto. A multiple-step machine learning application for predicting river vegetation distributions and their predominant factors in recruitment and disappearance. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers B1 (Hydraulic Engineering). 2024. 80. 2
• Takuya Sato, Shuji Iwami, Chie Kato, Hitoshi Miyamoto. Versatility improvement of a flood flow analysis using machine-learning-based river land covers classified with normalized indices of satellite images. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers B1 (Hydraulic Engineering). 2024. 80. 2
• Tetsuya Oishi, Yuki Hiramatsu, Takaaki Okamoto, Hitoshi Miyamoto. Eeperimental study on the impact of turbulent flow in downstream from an inclined stepped part on seed transport. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers B1 (Hydraulic Engineering). 2024. 80. 2

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• Detchphol CHITWATKULSIRI, Hitoshi MIYAMOTO, Kim IRVINE, Ratchaphon CHAROENPANUCHART. Density of Drainage System Effect on Urban Flood Sensitivity Under Extreme Rainfall Events. 22nd Annual Meeting, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). 2025
• Maiyatat NUNKHAW, Masachika SHIRATORI, Hitoshi MIYAMOTO, Detchphol CHITWATKULSIRI. Flood Inundation Analysis in Tidal Reaches of an Urban River Basin Considering the Effects of Global Climate Change: a Case Study of the Furukawa River Basin in Tokyo, Japan. 22nd Annual Meeting, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). 2025
• Hayato SUZUKI, Hitoshi MIYAMOTO, Naoya MAEDA, Taichi SHIOGAMA, Yugo TYUGU. Versatility of a Multi-step Machine Learning Model for Predicting Vegetation Distributions in River Channels. 22nd Annual Meeting, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). 2025
• Yuto KOSHIDA, Hitoshi MIYAMOTO, Tsuyoshi HOSHINO, Yukiko HIRABAYASHI. Recent Acceleration of Water Temperature Rise in Japan and Its Seasonal Characteristics. 22nd Annual Meeting, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). 2025
• Hitoshi MIYAMOTO, Naoya MAEDA, Kota KUJIRAI, Yoshifumi TAKAHASHI, Detchphol CHITWATKULSIRI. Evacuation Timeline Analysis in an Urban River Basin by Using Flood Inundation Simulation and GIS Visualization. 22nd Annual Meeting, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). 2025

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• Impact assessment of meander restoration of the Kushiro River based on annual ring growth of alder trees in the Kushiro Wetland
  (27th Annual Conference of Ecology and Civil Engineering Society 2024)
• Improvement of the discharge generation sub-model in the river vegetation dynamics model
  (2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources 2024)
• Sensitivity analysis of each heat balance term in water temperature calculation
  (2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources 2024)
• Deep learning method for river land cover classification using UAV aerial images in the Kinu River
  (79th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, JSCE, Sendai, Japan 2024)
• Development of a vegetation invasion prediction model in the Kinugawa River using Random Forest
  (79th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, JSCE, Sendai, Japan 2024)

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• 2014/04 - 現在 Shibaura Institute of Technology Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Professor
• 2007/04 - 2014/03 Kobe University Department of Civil Engineering Associate Professor
• 2004/04 - 2007/03 Kobe University Department of Civil Engineering Associate Professor
• 1996/04 - 2004/03 Kobe University Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Assistant Professor
• 2003/01 - 2003/12 University of British Columbia Department of Civil Engineering Visiting Scientist
1994/04 - 1996/03 Kobe City Office Construction Division Civil Engineer

• 2024/07 - 2026/07 Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Provisional member of the Council for Social Infrastructure Council, Provisional member of the Transportation Policy Council
• 2024/11 - 2026/03 Enterprise Bureau, Kanagawa Prefecture Member of the Expert Council on River Impacts, etc., for the Realization of the "Water System Reconstruction" by Five Companies
• 2023/04 - 2026/03 Kanto Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan Member of the Kanto Regional River Technology Council
• 2023/04 - 2026/03 Himeji River and National Roadway Office, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan Embankment Survey Committee Member
• 2022/09 - 2026/03 Kanto Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan Member, River Improvement Plan Follow-up Committee, Sagami River and Nakatsu River in the Sagami River Basin
2019/02 - 2026/03 Public Interest Incorporated Association, Rainwater Storage and Infiltration Technology Association Deputy Editor-in-Chief (- Mar. 2024), Editor-in-Chief (Apl. 2024-), Editorial Board
2015/04 - 2026/03 Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan Committee Member, Committee of Experts on Contract Deliberation, Water and Disaster Management Bureau
2015/04 - 2026/03 Minato City, Tokyo, Japan Committee Member, Committee on Green and Water
2014/04 - 2026/03 Hyogo Prefecture, Japan Chairperson, Higashi Harima / Kita Harima / Tamba (Kakogawa River Basin) Regional Comprehensive Flood Control Promotion Council
2008/04 - 2026/03 Disaster Science Institute Researcher
1996/04 - 2026/03 Construction Engineering Research Institute Research Staff
2023/06 - 2025/05 Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) committee member and secretary
2019/10 - 2025/05 Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Section Secretary, Editorial Sub-committee, Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
2023/03 - 2025/03 Faculty of Engineering, Shizuoka University Tenure Track Examination Committee Member
2020/06 - 2024/06 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Member, Committee on Publishing
2020/04 - 2024/03 Public Works Research Institute, Japan Invited Researcher
2017/04 - 2024/03 Saitama City Saitama City Misono District River Utilization Coordination Council, Chairperson
2021/06 - 2023/05 Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Committee Member
2019/06 - 2021/05 Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Expert Advisor
2020/08 - 2021/02 NEWJEC Inc. Committee for the advancement of inflow forecasting for support projects of hydroelectric power generation feasibility evaluation
2016/09 - 2021/01 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Technology Promotion Organization, Civil Engineer Qualification Committee, Advanced 1st Class Civil Engineer Qualification Committee
2016/05 - 2020/03 Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University Committee member of Joint Usage/Research Base Committee, Disaster Prevention Research Institute
2017/10 - 2019/09 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Editor-in-chief, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering
2019/08 - 2019/08 Nagoya University Ph.D. Examiner
2016/06 - 2019/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Secretary of the Subcommittee on Glocal Climate Change Adaptation Research Promotion, Committee on Water Engineering, Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering
2015/06 - 2019/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Member of the Editorial Coordination Committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2015/06 - 2019/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Member and Secretary, Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering
2015/06 - 2018/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Member and Secretary, Kanto Branch Academic Research Committee
2017/04 - 2017/09 Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd. Lecturer, Civil Engineering Fundamentals Course
2015/10 - 2017/09 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Editorial Board Member and Secretary, Sub-Committee on Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering
2015/10 - 2017/09 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Member, Committee on Environmental Systems Research
2015/06 - 2017/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Chair, Division of the Environmental Hydraulic Engineering, Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering
2015/06 - 2017/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Member, Committee on the Education Planning and Human Resources Development, Department of Education Planning
2015/06 - 2017/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Editor in Chief, Sub-committee on H Volume of the Journal of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2014/06 - 2017/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Member, English Journal Editing Subcommittee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2013/06 - 2015/05 Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Secretary General, Sub-committee on the H Volume of the Journal of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2013/06 - 2015/05 Editorial Committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Japan Secretary-General, Volume H Editorial Subcommittee,
2013/06 - 2015/05 Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Vice Chairman, Environmental Hydraulics Subcommittee
2013/04 - 2014/03 Hyogo Prefecture Chair Hokkesan_Dani River Improvement Plan Advisory Board/Promotion Plan Council
2004/07 - 2014/03 Visualization Information Society, Japan Member, Applied Study Group on Wavelets and Intelligent Visualization
2010/06 - 2012/05 Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Editing Committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Japan Member, Journal B1/B2/B3 Joint Editorial Subcommittee
2011/10 - 2012/03 Hyogo Prefecture Member, Hokkesan_dani River Basin Flood Control Technology Study Group
2011/01 - 2012/03 Hyogo Prefecture Member, Special Committee on Evacuation Measures
2009/07 - 2011/06 Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Member, River Section
2008/06 - 2010/05 Kansai Branch, Japan Society of Civil Engineers Executive Secretary, FCC (Forum Civil Cosmos)
2008/03 - 2009/02 Himeji River and National Roadway Office, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan Member, Committee for creating a river where fish can easily climb, the Ibo River

• 2024/03 - Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Outstanding Discussion Award The 68th Conference on Hydraulic Engineering at Nakanoshima Center of Osaka University
• 2016/08 - River Foundation Outstanding Achievement Award
• 2007/05 - JSCE Kansai Branch 80 Year Anniversary Award Branch Activities Achievement Award
• 2007/04 - Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in Science and Engineering in 10th Edition
• 2006/05 - Faculty of Engineering Excellence Education Award in 2005
1999/09 - JSCE Outstanding Speakers Award in 54th JACE Annual Meeting

Ecology and Civil Engineering Society (ECES) ,  European Geosciences Union (EGU) ,  International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) ,  Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources (JSHWR) ,  American Geophysical Union (AGU) ,  The Visualization Society of Japan (VSJ) ,  International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) ,  Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSEC)