Summary of Activities

Cryosphere & Climate Change Research Group

• Field & Research Activities

• Capacity Building
• Developmental Projects
• Future Plans
Research & Field Activities in KIU
 Risk assessment of Shishper Glacier, Hunza
 Field visits to Shishper in Dec. 2018
 Published Paper

 Glacier lake inventory in Gilgit-Baltistan and decadal dynamics (1977-

2018)
 Paper Under Review

 Project Completed on Climate induce disasters: community based-

response to GLOFs in GB
 Study 1: Vulnerability assessment to GLOF hazard (Shigar, Passu and
Bagrot valley)
 Study 2: Prospect of crop production in GLOF prone areas of GB under
changing climate

 Impact assessment of Badswat Glacier lake outburst flooding

Ishkoman valley
Developmental Projects in KIU
Future activities in KIU
1. Field and Research activities
1.1 Risk Assessment of Shishper Glacier
Shishper Glacier, Hassanabad, Hunza
Swift movement of Shishper glacier 2018

Field visit December 2018

1.2 Glacier lake inventory and decadal dynamics in GB

Paper under
review
 1.3 Vulnerability assessment to GLOF hazard (Under Funding of GCISC

Project: Climate induce disasters & community based-response to GLOFs in GB

1. Vulnerability assessment to GLOF hazard (Shigar, Passu and Bagrot valley)

2. Prospect of crop production in GLOF prone areas of GB under changing
climate

Site 1: Shigar valley

Site 2: Bagrot valley
Site 3: Passu Valley
Impact assessment of Badswat Glacier lake Immit,
North Pakistan

 Badswat and Bilhanz villages situated in Immit, Ghizer

district, GB
 3 August 2018 GLOF event occurred and hit two villages
 Due to GLOF again new lake formed with an area of 0.45
km2 (area…900 kanal land)
 Submerged three villages completely and one partially
 Loss of homes, road, infrastructure and agriculture land
 10 villages was blocked from the rest of the Immit Valley.

Two M.Phil student working on….. Badswat Glacier lake

Badswat Glacier lake
 GLOF impacts on education
and health of school
students
May 2019 KIU field visit

Focus group discussion with affected community

Badswat village, May 2019,
KIU field visit pics
Research students…data collection
socioeconomic impact assessment
 Khurdopic glacier (Shimshal)

Badswat GLOF event (Ishkoman)

GLOF problems and challenges

Badswat GLOF event affectees
 Project Title:

Socioeconomic Vulnerability Assessment and Community

based Management of Glacier Lake Outburst Flood:
A case study in Yasin valley

Principal Investigator: Dr. Karamat Ali

Co-Principal Investigator: Prof: Dr. Attaullah Shah
Project duration 1 year
Worth 500,000 PKR
 Project Title :

Preliminary Assessment of local

agricultural system in the framework of
carbon credit mechanism in GLOF
vulnerable areas
 PI: Prof. Dr. S. M Nizami
 Co-PI: Dr. M. Arshad

 Funded by UNDP (4.3 m)

 Landsat
Satellite view

Sentinel image 10 2017

Glacier lake

Field pictorial view (Ali, 2016)

Developmental projects of KIU on climate change and
Glacial studies
 Submission of PC1 entitled “Establishment of Center for
climate change and Glacier studies at KIU” (Worth PKR 600
million) to CPEC center Higher education commission of
Pakistan
 Establishment of Glacier monitor stations (14 in no)
 Three wings: (1) Climate change studies, (2) Glacial
studies, (3) Natural resources management

 Establishment of GIS and remote sensing lab at KIU in

collaboration…. Worth PKR 6 million

 Ecotourism institute in KIU… mountain expedition and visit to

glacier areas
Capacity building
 Summer School on Climate and Hydrological Modelling
for Climate Change Impact Assessment on Water
Resources (Planned from 22-31in July 2019 in collaboration
with IST-Islamabad)
 GIS and remote sensing training ( Carried out in Apr.2019)

Recent collaboration for Climate Change and Glacier studies

 Initiated collaboration with Russian academic of
sciences for glacier mapping and field survey
 Collaboration between KIU and Aga Khan Agency
for Habitat (AKAH) for Disaster risk management in
GB
 Submission of some research proposals in ICIMOD,
HEC, Pakistan science foundation, SUPARCO