Name:
Hirot Higa
Hometown：
Kitanakagusuku village, Okinawa, Japan
Affiliation：
Yokohama National University, Department of Civil Engineering, Estuarine & Coastal Engineering Laboratory
Speciality：
Water Environment Engineering, Ocean Optics, Ocean Color Remote Sensing
Affiliated Academic Society：
Japan Society of Civil Engineers，The Remote Sensing Society of Japan，Japan Society for Simulation Technology，Japanese Association for Coastal Zone Studies
Education and Credentials
B. Eng. : Tokyo University of Science, Japan
M. Sci. : University of Tokyo, Japan
Ph. D. : University of Tokyo, Japan
Professional Experiences
Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1) (2012-2015)
Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD) (2015-2016)
Assistant Professor, Yokohama National University, Japan (2016–2017)
The Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER), Assistant Professor, Yokohama National University, Japan (2017–)
Selected Lectures
Hydraulics Practice
Hydraulics experiment
Award：
Outstanding performance award, Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, March, 2012
Poster Presentation Award, Japan Society on Water Environment (Wataru Nakamura，Hiroto Higa，Yoshiyuki Nakamura), March, 2019
Poster Presentation Award, Tokyo Bay Symposium (Hiroto Higa), October, 2019
Coastal Engineering Paper Award in The 66th Annual Journal of Coastal Engineering (Hiroto Higa, Wataru Nakamura, Shogo Sugahara, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Takayuki Suzuki), October, 2019