Assistant Professor Butsawan Bidorn, Ph.D.

Management Position

  • Head of Coastal Engineering Laboratory

Education Background

  • Ph.D. in Geology, Florida State University
  • Special Program in Water and Environmental Engineering, Asian Institute Technology
  • Master of Engineering in Water Resources Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Water Resources Engineering, Kasetsart University

Research Interest

  • Coastal Engineering

Research Project

  • Project: Integrated Study on Hydro-Meteorological Prediction and Adaptation to Climate Change in Thailand (IMPAC-T Project granted by JICA): Principal researcher in
    the VARIABILITY OF RIVER SEDIMENT SUPPLY AND SHORELINE CHANGE UNDER GLOBAL WARMING Sub-project
  • Project: River survey and modelling of the Upper and Lower Chao Phraya River Basins for evaluating stream sediment transport rates and sediment deposition along the
    coast of the Upper Gulf of Thailand (Government Budget Research Grant)
  • Coastal Survey and radiometric dating for evaluating sediment deposition rates along the Upper Gulf of Thailand. (Government Budget Research Grant)

Publication

  • Bidorn, B. and Rukvichai, C. (2018). Impacts of Coastal Development on theShoreline Change of the Eastern Gulf of Thailand, IOP Conf. Series: Earth
    and Environmental Science, 171 (2018) 012007, doi:10.1088/1755-1315/171/1/012007
  • Bidorn, B., Kish, S. A., Donoghue, J.F., Bidorn, K.,and Mama, R. (2016). Sediment characteristics in the Ping River basin, Thailand. Procedia
    Engineering, 154, 557-564.
  • Bidorn, B. Chanyotha S., Kish, S.A., Donoghue, J.F., and Bidorn K. (2015). The effects of Thailand's great flood of 2011 on river sediment discharge
    in the Upper Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand. International Journal of Sediment Research, 30(4): 328-337.

Contact

Office: Coastal Engineering Laboratory, Building 5, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University

Email: butsawan.p@chula.ac.th, butsawan.b@gmail.com