BASICINFORMATION

Name：Bofu Yu

Professor：School of Engineering and Built Environment - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Tel：+61 (0)7 3735 7486 (Work)

Email：b.yu@griffith.edu.au

Loc：N79 3.07F, Nathan Campus

BIO

Prof. Bofu Yu is Professor in Hydrology in the School of Engineering and Built Environment, and currently Head, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Discipline. Prof. Yu has extensive research and consultancy experience in hydrologic and soil erosion modelling in Australia and internationally. Prof. Yu has been working on climatic and hydrologic drivers for soil erosion modelling and prediction. His work on rainfall erosivity for the USLE/RUSLE has enabled large scale prediction and assessment of land degradation over the entire Australia continent, and this work has been widely used around the world. Prof Yu has developed and validated a spatially varying infiltration model that can be used to predict runoff rate for erosion prediction. Prof Yu has contributed to development of storm generation algorithms used in CLIGEN as a stochastic weather generator. Prof. Yu has also extended and unified the theoretical framework underpinning GUEST and WEPP models and developed efficient algorithms for sediment transport, sorting and deposition over a complex terrain. Prof. Yu has led a numerous contract research projects funded through NRM in Queensland, Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW), Victoria DPI, and Landloch, on various aspects of hydrologic and soil erosion modelling in Australia and around the world. In addition, he has been an academic manager to lead the review and development of engineering degree programs in the School of Engineering at Griffith Unviersity,

GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

Member：Australian Rivers Institute2016 - present

Head of School, School of Environmental Engineering：Griffith University, Australia，1 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2005

Deputy Head of School, Griffith School of Engineering：Griffith University, Australia，1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2007

Head of School, Griffith School of Engineering：Griffith University, Australia，1 Jan 2006 - 28 Feb 2013

Head of Discipline, Environmental Engineering：Griffith University, Australia，18 Aug 2014 - 2 Dec 2018

Head of Discipline, Civil and Environmental Engineering：Griffith University, Australia，3 Dec 2018 - present

DEGREES

Graduate Certificate of Higher Education：Griffith University, Australia1996 - 1996

Doctor Of Philosophy：The Johns Hopkins University1 Jan 1986

BSc：Peking University, China1978 - 1981

RESEARCH OUTPUTS（PART）

-Regionalization of standardized sediment rating curves for enhancing data continuity in ungauged catchments

-Neglecting land-atmosphere feedbacks overestimates climate-driven increases in evapotranspiration

-Multicentury flow reconstruction at four sites along the Yarlung Zangbo River

RESEARCH INTERESTS

-Precipitation as a stochastic process

-Hydrologic models and modelling

-Soil erosion, sediment transport and deposition

FUNDED RESEARCH（PART）

-MUSLE Plug-in Project Extension：Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (QLD)1 Mar 2025 - 30 Jun 2026

-Channel change along the Fish Creek in Central Queensland(Bench aging erosion study)：Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (QLD)1 Jun 2024 - 30 Jun 2026

-MULSE Plugin - GBR Catchments：Department of Resources (QLD)18 Mar 2024 - 30 Jun 2025

TEACHING INTERESTS

-1044SCG - Earth Systems: 1/3 of the course on weather and climate (T2, 2019, 2020)

-2004ENG - Hydrology: 2nd Year core course in Civil and Environmental Engineering (T2, 2019, 2020)

-6205ENG/7415ENG - Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling (1/3) advanced course in water engineering with a strong focus on job-ready and employability outcomes. (T2, 2020)

-6106ENG - Transportation Engineering (Convenor only, T1, 2020)

TEACHING & SUPERVISION（PART）

-Assess the impacts of land use/land cover change and climate change on hydrological regime：12 Jan 2024

-GIS-based approach for biogas plants location for biomethane injection in natural gas grid Australia：27 Jul 2023

-Estimating soil erodibility using multiple erosion modelling frameworks：23 Mar 2021.

Details about Bofu Yu can be found at the link：https://experts.griffith.edu.au/18560-bofu-yu