Contact Information
218A Howe-Russell Geosciences Complex
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-4728
Fax:225-578-2520
E-mail:dkobas1[at]lsu.edu

Research Interests

• Coastal hydrodynamics and sediment transport and their impacts on coastal environment
• Dynamics of fluid mud and heterogeneous sediments
• Integrated coastal monitoring system (In-situ observation, numerical modeling, remote sensing, GIS)
• Numerical modeling of waves, currents and sediment transport in coastal waters
• Science-based environmental policy development
• Wetland hydrodynamics

Selected Publications

Kobashi, D.,Jose, F., and Stone, G.W., 2007. Heterogeneity and Dynamics over a Shoal during spring-winter storm season,south-central Louisiana, USA. Proceedings of Coastal Sediments ’07, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.. 921-934.

Kobashi, D., Jose, F., Stone, G. W., 2007. Impacts of Fluvial Fine Sediments and Winter Storms over a Transgressive Shoal, South-central Louisiana, USA, Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50. 858-862.

Jose, F., Kobashi, D., and Stone, G.W., 2007. Spectral Wave Transformation over an Elongated Sand Shoal off South-Central Louisiana, U.S.A., Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50. 757-761.

Kobashi, D., Jose, F., and Stone, G.W. 2006. Wave-Bottom Sediment Interactions Over a Sand Shoal During the Winter Cold Front Season, Western Louisiana, Transactions, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Lafayette, Louisiana, v.56, 395-401.

Kobashi, D., Jose, F., and G. W. Stone, 2005. Hydrodynamics and sedimentary responses within bottom boundary layer: Sabine Bank, western Louisiana, Transaction, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, New Orleans, Louisiana, v.55, 392-399.

Kobashi, D. and Mazda, Y. 2005. Tidal flow in riverine-type mangroves. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 13, 615-619.

Mazda, Y., Kobashi, D., and S. Okada, 2005, Hydrodynamics in Tidal Scale in Mangrove Areas, Wetlands Ecology and Management, 13, 647-655.

Mazda Y., Magi, M., Nanao, H., Kogo, M., Miyagi, T., Kanazawa, N. and Kobashi, D.. 2002. Coastal erosion due to long-term human impact on mangrove forests. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 10: 1-9.