Awards
Congratulations Miki-san and Furuie-san for Best Presentation Award
Welcome to KANTOUSH Lab
For planning of risk management of water resources systems and integrated river basin management
We investigate measures for integrated river basin management for flood control, water use, and environmental conservation aiming at enjoyment of ecosystem services in a sustainable manner. We focus on subjects such as 1) asset management of dams and development of reservoir sediment management methods, 2) development of riverbed management methods for habitat creation and maintenance and 3) restoration of sustainable interactions between human use and ecosystem responses in water front environments.
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Events
Farewell party
Events
End-of-year party
Awards
Prof. Vahid Nourani was recently honored as a Distinguished Researcher in Engineering at the 26th National Festival of Researchers, Innovators, and Technologists of Iran
Upcoming Events
30 March
The 1st International Symposium on Local River Widening [link]
23 March
AI-Hydro Futures: 1st International Workshop [link]
Lastest News
19-20 February 2026
DPRI Annual Meeting 2026
17th February 2026
Master's students defense
Congratulations!!Furuie-san and Lee-san
16th February 2026
Menna's PhD defense
Congratulations!!Menna-san
3rd February 2026
Bachelor Student Presentation
Congratulations!!Yamauchi-san
18-30 January 2026
Post-Flood Field Surveys in Vietnam and the Philippines
The field mission was led by Sameh Ahmed Kantoush Sensei with technical leadership from Mohamed Saber Sensei and three Students
15-19 December 2025
AGU25 Annual Meeting
Four posters were presented at the AGU25 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
10-12 December 2025
The 70th Conference of Hydraulic Engineering
Professor Sameh and four members of his laboratory were attended the 70th Hydraulic Engineering Conference held in Koriyama City.
2-4 December 2025
ISFF9 in Oman
Sultan Qaboos University was collaborated with the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University (DPRI)to host the 9th International Symposium on Wadi Floods (ISFF9).
1st December 2025
Training Workshop at Sultan Qaboos University
Professor Sameh and Professor Saber attended a training workshop on monitoring and evaluation of sediment yield in dry reservoirs at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
29-30 November 2025
Oman Field visit
Sameh sensei, Kobayashi sensei, Saber sensei and other lab members visited many sites in El Kood Dam, Wadi Samail and Falaj in Oman.。
25-26 November 2025
NEXUS-Philippines Workshop [3rd]
NEXUS Workshop on Water Security and Reservoir Management
21st November 2025
Desmond's PhD dissertation defense
His research focused on deposited plastic debris (SPD), plastic pollution, river morphology, microplastics, and flood risk.
29th October 2025
2nd (KU-NTU) Joint Workshop
The 2nd Kyoto University-National Taiwan University (KU-NTU) Joint Workshop on "River Sediment Replenishment and Eco-Engineering Development (ReSEED)"
13-14 October 2025
Field trip
Naka River
27-31 August 2025
(IO-CCADRRM 2025)Conference
The 3rd International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Management, at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU),Vietnam.
18th August 2025
NEXUS Skill UP! Training Series
Machine Learning for Flood Hazard Mapping (XGBoost & Memetic Programming)
23rd July 2025
NEXUS Skill UP! Training Series
HEC-HMS & HEC-ResSIM (Flood Prediction and Reservoir Operations)
27th June 2025
Mini Symposium in Singapore.
“Reshaping Rivers: Hydro-Hazards, Human Impacts, and Predictive Modelling in a Changing Climate”,Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.