Dr. Noboru Yonemitsu

Dr. Noboru Yonemitsu
Dr. Noboru Yonemitsu,
Instructor

Instructor

Location: CEME - Room 2025
Telephone: 604.822.9642
Facsimilie: 604.822.6901
Email: noboru@civil.ubc.ca

 

Biography:

Noboru (Nobo) has worked in the Department of Civil Engineering a few times since February 1992. He studied Engineering Physics at Hokkaido University, Japan, where he specialized in Turbulent Fluid Dynamics and Instrumentation of Non-destructive Testing (NDT) and received his MASc from the same institute before coming to Canada in 1986. He earned a PhD in Water Resources Engineering from the University of Alberta, based on his research in Environmental Fluid Mechanics. During 1990-2009, Nobo worked as a research scientist/project engineer/NDT consultant with various organizations including: Northwest Hydraulics Consultants (Edmonton, Vancouver), NASA (Johnson Space Center), UBC, UNBC, BCIT, Oki Electronics, Intel, various defence departments, nuclear power plants, and some of the world major airline companies.

Research Interests:

  • IR-NDT technologies;
  • Turbulent Fluid Mechanics;
  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics;
  • Ecological Fluid Mechanics;
  • Waste water treatment

Publications:

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Journals

  • Hoover, T.M., Marczak, L.B., Richardson, J.S., and Yonemitsu, N. Transport and settlement of organic matter in small streams: Freshwater Biology, 2009.
  • Hoover, T.M., Richardson, J.S., and Yonemitsu, N.  Flow-substrate interactions create and mediate leaf litter resource patches in streams: Freshwater Biology, 2006.
  • Chikita, K. Smith, N.D. Yonemitsu, N. and Perez Arlucea, M.  Dynamics of sediment-laden underflows passing over a subaqueous sill: glacier-fed Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada: J. Sedimentology, 1997.
  • Yonemitsu, N., Rajaratnam, N., Swaters, G.E., and Lawrence, G.A. Shear instabilities in arrested salt-wedge flows. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 1996.
  • Lawrence, G.A., Ashley, K.I., Yonemitsu, N., and Ellis, J.R. Natural dispersion and fertilization of a small lake.  J. Limnol. Oceanogr. 1995.
  • Chikita, K. Smith, N.D., Yonemitsu, N., and Perez Arlucea, M.  How did sediment-laden underflow pass over the subaqueous sill?: glacier-fed Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada. J. Sedimentol. Soc. Japan.  1995.
  • Chikita, K., Yonemitsu, N., and Yoshida, M. Dynamic processes of sedimentation in a glacier-fed lake, Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada.  Jpn. J. Limnol, 1991.

Conference Proceedings

  • Hoover, T.M., Richardson J.S. and Yonemitsu, N. Do drifting stream insects need to see the streambed to find it? The relative importance of visual and flow-related settlement cues for mayfly larvae. Entomological Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Canmore, Alberta. 2005.
  • Hoover, T.M., Yonemitsu, N. and Richardson J. Dispersal strategies of drifting insects: are they velocity dependent? North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2004.
  • Hoover, T.M., Yonemitsu, N. and Richardson J. The role of physical factors in stream insect drift. Entomological Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Kelowna, BC, Canada 2003.

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