Kobayashi receives international award
Nobuhisa Kobayashi

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12:20 p.m., April 12, 2010----Nobuhisa Kobayashi, professor in the University of Delaware's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 International Coastal Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The award was established in 1977 to provide international recognition for outstanding leadership and development in the field of coastal engineering.

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The selection committee noted Kobayashi's 30 years of outstanding contributions to research and teaching in the field, as well as his work in the creation of ASCE's Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute.

He will receive the award July 1 at the International Conference of Coastal Engineering in Shanghai, China.

Kobayashi joined the University of Delaware faculty in 1981 and has served as director of UD's Center for Applied Coastal Research since 2000. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Kyoto University in Japan and a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kobayashi has edited two books and authored or co-authored eight book chapters and more than 200 papers and technical reports. His research interests and teaching subjects include coastal engineering, sediment transport mechanics, coastal structures, offshore engineering, transport and mixing processes, and hydraulic engineering.

In 2003, Kobayashi received ASCE's John G. Moffatt - Frank E. Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award.

Article by Diane Kukich

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