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Dr Javed Iqbal Tanoli

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

1

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

2

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

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

 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