Dr Javed Iqbal Tanoli

Associate Professor (Tenured) /Chairman

Area of Interest: Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Management, Geophysics

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

PhD 2016 Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
M.Phil 2009 Quaid-i-Azam
university Islamabad
M.Sc. 2006 Quaid-i-Azam university
Islamabad

Profile / Bio

Dec. 2010 till now: Assistant
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad,
Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
Nov 2006 till December 2010: Geoscientist
at LMK Resources (Pvt Ltd) Islamabad

SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS DELIVERED:

S. No

Training Title

Duration/Dates

Organization

Place

Silk Route Disaster
Risk Reduction and mitigation

20 days (28 June 2019 to 18 July 2109)

Institute of Mountain Hazard and Environment, Chinese Academy of
Sciences

Chengdu China

Major Natural
Disaster Alleviation of the Belt and Road

7 days
(September 02- 09, 2017)

Institute of Mountain Hazard and Environment, Chinese Academy of
Sciences

Chengdu China

Associations

Pakistan Geophysical Network
All Pakistan Geoscientists
Association
Pakistan Association of Petroleum
Geoscientists

Research Interests

Risk Assessment of Natural Hazards, Geomorphology, Geophysics.

Awards

Research Productivity award 2016,2024.

Research Projects

Project Title	PI/Co-PI	Amount	Agency	Duration	Status
Debris flows assessment under a changing climate: An example from Indus River Basin, Northwest Himalayas	PI	0.2 million Chinese Yuan	NSFC China	2024	In Progress
: Debris Flow Hazard Assessment in NW Pakistan: Application of GIS and Geomorphological Techniques	PI	RS:4.2 million PKR	Higher Education Commission Pakistan	2023-2026	In Progress
Suturing process and timing of India-Asia collision along the Northwestern Margin of Indian Plate, Pakistan	Co-PI	RS:7.6 million PKR	Higher Education Commission Pakistan	2022-2025	In Progress
The behaviors of Indian Lithospheric mantle beneath the western Himalayan syntaxis	Member	RS.5.4 million PKR	PSF and NSFC Joint Project	2016-2019	Completed

Debris flows assessment under changing climate: An example from Indus River Basin, Northwest Himalayas. 0.2 million Chinese Yuan, NSFC China (2024)

Students Supervised

MS/PhD Research Thesis Supervision
No	Thesis Title	Student Name	MS/PhD	Supervisor/Co-Supervisor	Status
1	Application of Remote Sensing and GIS for analysis of Spatial Distribution of Mountain Hazards along Hunza Valley, Pakistan	Kashif Hayat	MS	Supervisor	Graduated/2018
2	Spatial Distribution analysis of Mass Movements using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques along Indus River Basin, North Pakistan.	Ihsan Ullah	MS	Supervisor	Graduated/2018
3	An integrated Geophysical and Geotechnical Investigation of Havelian landslide, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	Shehriar Sattar	MS	Supervisor	Graduated/2019
4	Landslide Susceptibility mapping in Kaghan valley, North Pakistan	Adeel Jahangir	MS	Supervisor	Graduated/2019
5	Landslide susceptibility mapping using Weight of Evidence (WOE) and Evidential Belief Function (EBF) in Jhelum valley, North Pakistan.	Rizwan Ahmed	MS	Supervisor	Graduated/2019
6	Morphometric and statistical analyses using ASTER data and GIS technique of Hunza River Bain, North Pakistan	Jamal Gauhar	MS	Supervisor	Graduated/2019
7	Provenance of Pab Formation: Insights to the Paleogeographic reconstruction of the western Indian margin	Kamran Tabassum	MS	Co-Supervisor	Graduated/2019
8	Tectonic implications of the Cenozoic sequence from Fort Munro section, West Pakistan Fold-thrust belt	Junaid Ashraf	MS	Co-Supervisor	Graduated/2019
9	Quantification of Debris Flows at Regional Scale: A case study from Basham to Raikot, North Pakistan	Hamza Daud	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2021
10	Quantification of Debris Flows at Regional Scale: A case study from Raikot to Khunjerab, North Pakistan	Luqman Ahmed	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2020
11	Petrography and Geochemistry of Purit Formation, Shyoke Suture Melange, Chitral, Northern Pakistan	Abdul Hameed	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2021
12	Rock Fall Hazard and Risk Assessment: An Example from Balakot-Naran Highway, North Pakistan	Shah Naseer	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2020
13	Integrating GIS with field investigations for Morphometric Analysis of Debris Flows: A case of Chitral District, North Pakistan	Sardar Asif	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2021
14	Regional Scale mapping of Debris Flows: A case study from Raikot to khunjerab along Karakoram highway (KKH), North Pakistan	Tanveer ul Haq	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2021
15	GIS Based Morphometric analysis of Debris Flow Gullies, A case study from Chitral to Buni, NW Pakistan	Bilal Ghani	MS	Co-Supervisor	Graduated 2021
16	Debris Flow Hazard Assessment: A case study from Garhi Habibullah to Balakot, NW Pakistan	Muhammad Ali	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2022
17	The contamination of heavy metals and exposure risk assessment of drinking groundwater in district Attock, Pakistan	Shahid Ullah	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2021
18	Morphometric and Propagation Assessment of Debris Flows from Chilas to Sost Section, Northwest Pakistan	Mudassir Shah	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2024
19	A regional scale Assessment of Particle Size Distribution of Debris Flows along Karakoram Highway, North Pakistan	Abid Ali Pathan	MS	Supervisor	Graduated 2024
20	Risk Assessment of Debris Flows in the Context of Climate Change: Jaglot to Khunjerab Section, NW Pakistan	Ahsan Munir	MS	Supervisor	In Progress

Journal Publications

1.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Timing of India-Asia diachronous collision: A view from the westernmost Indian margin, Pakistan, Journal Article, 2026
2.	Izhar Ahmed,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Geomechanical evaluation of fault damage zone in the active Himalayas of Northern Pakistan, Journal Article, 2025
3.	Hamza Daud,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> The role of multi-resolution DEMs and sampling strategy uncertainty in deep learning-based debris flow susceptibility mapping, The role of multi-resolution DEMs and sampling strategy uncertainty in deep learning-based debris flow susceptibility mapping, 2025
4.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Uplift and Erosion in the Western Himalaya: Insight From U–Pb Ages of Detrital Zircon Recovered From the Miocene Foreland Basin Deposits, Pakistan, Article, 2025
5.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Evaluating chromite ore deposits: An integrated magnetic and geochemical study in the Kohistan Island Arc of northern Pakistan, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2025
6.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Rapid India–Asia Initial Collision Between 50 and 48 Ma Along the Western Margin of the Indian Plate: Detrital Zircon Provenance Evidence, Geosciences, MDPI, 2024
7.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=732" title="Lin Ding">L. Ding</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=4832" title="Wahid Abbas">Dr. Wahid Abbas</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=2825" title="Dr. Muhammad Jamil">M.Jamil</a> Foreland basin unconformity, Western Himalaya, Pakistan: timing gap, regional correlation and tectonic implications, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2023
8.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=347" title="Dr. Ishtiaq A. K. Jadoon">Jadoon, I. A. K.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> Application of bivariate statistical techniques for landslide susceptibility mapping: A case study in Kaghan valley, NW Pakistan, Geological Journal, 2023
9.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=732" title="Lin Ding">L. Ding</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=347" title="Dr. Ishtiaq A. K. Jadoon">Jadoon, I. A. K.</a> The Early Paleocene Ranikot Formation, Sulaiman Fold-Thrust Belt, Pakistan: Detrital Zircon Provenance and Tectonic Implications, Minerals, 2023
10.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=732" title="Lin Ding">L. Ding</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=347" title="Dr. Ishtiaq A. K. Jadoon">Jadoon, I. A. K.</a> Exhumation of the Higher Himalaya: Insights from Detrital Zircon U–Pb Ages of the Oligocene–Miocene Chitarwatta Formation, Sulaiman Fold–Thrust Belt, Pakistan, Applied Sciences, 2023
11.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Provenance of the Late Cretaceous Pab Formation, Sulaiman fold-thrust belt, Pakistan: Insight from the Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Sandstone Petrography, Geological Journal, 2022
12.	Syed Hussain Ali Shah,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Assessing Potential of Dor River as Small Hydro Project for Lessening energy crisis and enhancing Tarbela Reservoir life in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 'water' 12 August, 2022
13.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=481" title="Umbreen Umber">Umbreen Umber</a> Modified “Rockfall Hazard Rating System for Pakistan (RHRSP)”: An Application for Hazard and Risk Assessment along the Karakoram Highway, Northwest Pakista, Applied Sciences, 2022
14.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=481" title="Umbreen Umber">Umbreen Umber</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> First U-Pb Detrital Zircon Ages from Kamlial Formation (Kashmir, Pakistan): Tectonic Implications for Himalayan Exhumation, Minerals, 2022
15.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Detrital Zircon Provenance of the Cenozoic Sequence, Kotli, Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan; Implications for India–Asia Collision, Minerals, 2021
16.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=423" title="Dr. Muhammad Qasim">M. Qasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> INTEGRATED PROVENANCE AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOCENE CLASTIC SEQUENCE, CHHANGLA GALI, LESSER HIMALAYA, PAKISTAN, Geological Journal, 2021
17.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Integrated provenance and tectonic implications of theCretaceous–Palaeocene clastic sequence, Changla Gali, LesserHimalaya, Pakistan, 20 June 2021, 2021
18.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=745" title="Dr. Nangyal Ghani Khan">N.G. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=460" title="Dr. Faizan-ur-Rehman Qaiser">F. R. Qaiser</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a> GIS‑based spatial landslide distribution analysis of district Neelum, AJ&K, Pakistan, Natural Hazards, Springer, 2021
19.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Variation patterns of extreme precipitation and relation to ocean-atmospheric climate in Sichuan province China from 1961 to 2017, Theoretical and Applied Climatology Jan 2019, 2019
20.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> The incision variations of Poiqu documented by the Zhangmu landslide in the Upper Himalaya of Tibet, 10 November, 2019
21.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=723" title="Li Jun">Li Jun</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=721" title="Chen Ningsheng">Chen NS</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> The Model for Dilution Process of Landslide Triggered Debris Flow —A Case of Guanba River in Tibet Southeastern Plateau, 10 June, 2018
22.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=723" title="Li Jun">Li Jun</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=721" title="Chen Ningsheng">Chen NS</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Model for Dilution Process of Landslide Triggered Debris Flows —A Case in the Guanba River, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau, March 2018, 2018
23.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=722" title="Hu Guisheng">Hu Guisheng</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=721" title="Chen Ningsheng">Chen NS</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Debris flow susceptibility analysis based on the combined impacts of antecedent earthquakes and droughts: a case study for cascade hydropower stations in the upper Yangtze River, China, 2017, 2017
24.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Spatial distribution analysis and susceptibility mapping of landslides triggered before and after Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake along Upper Bhote Koshi, Nepal, May 2017, 2017
25.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=727" title="He XiuBin">He Xiubin</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=726" title="Raheel Anjum">Raheel Anjum</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Contemporary Temperature Fluctuation in Urban Areas of Pakistan, atmosphere, 2017
26.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=723" title="Li Jun">Li Jun</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=721" title="Chen Ningsheng">Chen NS</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> A model for total volume of debris flow with intermittent surges based on maximum peak discharge and movement time, Geosystem Engineering, 2016
27.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Case Study of the Characteristics and Dynamic Process of July 10, 2013, Catastrophic Debris Flows in Wenchuan County, China, Gui-Sheng Hu1 , Ning-Sheng Chen, Javed Iqbal Tanoli, Yong You and Jun Li EARTH SCIENCES RESEARCH JOURNAL, 2016
28.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Outlining a step, multi-parameters debris flow monitoring and warning and warning system: an example of warning system in the Aizi Valley, China, CHEN Nin-Sheng, Jave Iqbal Tanoli, HU Gui-Sheng, Wang Feng-Niang, YANG Cheng-Lin, DING, Hai-Tao, HE Na, WANG Tao J. Mt. Sci, 2016
29.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Effects of human activity on erosion, sedimentation and debris flow activity – A case study of the Qionghai Lake watershed, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, China, Journal of Mountain Science, 2015

Conference Publications

1.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Applications of Applied Geophysics in Mineral Prospecting: A case study of Iron Deposits of Dubran & Darkot Village- KPK, Pakistan, , 2024
2.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=719" title="Dr. Syed Tallataf Hussain Shah">S.T.H. Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=676" title="Dr. Javed Tanoli">J.I.Tanoli</a> Magnetic And Geochemical Assessment For The Chromite Deposits Of Mali-Dera, Kohistan Island Arc-Pakistan, , 2023

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