SMEs Inventory with GIS Mapping Survey (SIGMS) is initiated by the FATA Secretariat, Peshawar, as a one of the component of the project entitled "Economic Revitalization of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA (ERKF)".
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Principle investigator: Dr. Irfan U. Jan (NCEG)
Co-Principle investigators: Prof. Dr. Micheal Stephenson (BGS) and Dr. M. Hanif (NCEG)
Sponsor/Funds: Higher Education Commission of Pakistan/9 millions PKR

Project under the PAK-US Science   Technology Collaboration Program.

Principal Investigator: M. Asif Khan
Project Participants: M. Waqas Javed, Muhammad Sayab
Sponsors: Earthquake Model Middle East (EMME), a component of GEM (Global Earthquake Model)

Principal Investigator: Dr. M. Tahir Shah, Dr. Shuhab D. Khan. (Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA).
Students:

• Laeiq Ahmad (Ph.D. Project)
• Sadaf Miandad (MS Project)
• Lawangeen Sheikh (MS Project)
• Asad-ur-Rehman (MS Project)

Project Director: Mr. Sufyan Qazi
Principal Investigator: Dr. M. Asif Khan, Dr. M. Tahir Shah,
Sponsors: Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mineral Development Department, Directorate General Mines and Minerals, Peshawar, Pakistan
Duration:October, 2012-April, 2015

DelPHE (British Council) International Project (2010-2013) Institutional Support and Twinning in Geoscience between Kabul, Peshawar, Leicester, Prague and Keele Universities

Research work on geo-environmental study over Karak thrust and adjoining areas using radon monitoring as a tool.

Seismic site characterization from space. Seismic site characterization group has applied remote sensing DEMs for evaluating the impact of topography on seismic response.

Project Director: Dr.Samina Siddiqui
Fund/Cost: HEC- 4 million rupees
Duration:2011-2014

Shallow and intermediate depth earthquakes in the Hindu Kush region across the Afghan-Pakistan border

Geochemical evidences for palaeoclimatic fluctuations at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: southwestern margin of the Neotethys in the Salt Range, Pakistan. Abstract Volume European Geophysical Union 2017.

Palynology and Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic – Jurassic transition in the Salt Range (Pakistan). Abstract Volume European Geophysical Union 2017.

Orthophragminid species with new axial thickening structures from the Bartonian of the Indian Subcontinent. Geologica Acta Vol. 14 (3).

Sequence stratigraphic analysis of Eocene Rock Strata, Offshore Indus, southwest Pakistan.

Journal : Marine Geophysical Research, Volume 37, Issue 3, pp 207–228, 2016

A new Priabonian Heterostegina from the eastern Tethys (Sulaiman Fold Belt, west Pakistan): Implications for the development of eastern Tethyan Heterostegines and their paleobiogeography. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, Vol. 46 (4), 393-408

Analysis of the devastating Kashmir earthquake 2005 aftershocks.

Mapping Sediment thickness of the Islamabad city using empirical relationships: Implications for seismic hazards assessment, Journal of Earth System Science

A periglacial palaeoenvionment in the Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian Tobra Formation of the low-latitude Tethyan Salt Range, Pakistan Journal: Acta Geologica Sinica (In press/2016)​

Silicate-oxide mineral chemistry of mafic–ultramafic rocks as an indicator of the roots of an island arc: The Chilas Complex, Kohistan (Pakistan). Island Arc (2016) 25, 4–27.

The sedimentology of the Lower Permian Dandot Formation: a component of the Gondwana deglaciation sequence of the Salt Range, Pakistan Journal: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (In press)​

Evaluation of Source Rocks Using One Dimensional Maturity Modeling in Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan. Arabian Journal of Geosciences (In press)

Spatio-temporal variations of b-value in and around north Pakistan

Reflectance spectroscopy and remote sensing data for finding sulfide-bearing alteration zones and mapping geology in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

Velocity and structural modelling of Mesozoic Chiltan Limestone and Goru formations for hydrocarbon evaluation in Bitrisim area, Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan, Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)

Ambient noise measurements in Rawalpindi-Islamabad, twin cities of Pakistan: a step towards site response analysis to mitigate impact of natural hazard

Early Eocene Orthophragminids (Foraminifera) from the type-locality of Discocyclina ranikotensis Davies, 1927, Thal, NW Himalayas, Pakistan: insights into the orthophragminid paleobiogeography. Geodynamica Acta, DOI: 10.1080/09853111.2015.1026795.

Estimation and Validation of RapidEye-Based Time-Series of Leaf Area Index for Winter Wheat in the Rur Catchment (Germany). Remote Sensing, 7, 2808-2831; DOI: 10.3390/rs70302808.

Linking satellite derived LAI patterns with subsoil heterogeneity using large-scale ground-based electromagnetic induction measurements. Geoderma, 241-242, 262-271.

Soil moisture retrieval from airborne L-band passive microwave using high resolution multispectral data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 91, 59-71.

Palaeoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic analyses of the Jurassic Datta Formation, Salt Range, Pakistan" (in Press) Journal of Earth System and Science

A Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach for Locating Suitable Sites for Construction of Subsurface Dams in Northern Pakistan - Springer

Tsunamigenic Analysis in and around Makran

Emme Strong-Motion Database Serving For Predictive Model Selection To Emme Ground-Motion Logic-Tree Applications.

The above conference paper is published in Second European conference on Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Istanbul, 24-29 August, 2014, for addition to latest research section to NCEG, website.

The Early Cambrian Khewra Sandstone, Salt Range, Pakistan: endorsing southern Indian provenance. Arabian Journal of Geosciences.

"Impact of uncertainty in remote sensing DEMs on topographic amplification of seismic response and Vs 30." Arabian Journal of Geosciences: 1-9

An Analytical Solution for deforming twin parallel tunnels in an Elastic Half-Plane. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. DOI: 10.1002/nag.2322.

Using larger foraninifera for paleogeographic reconstruction of Neo-Tethys during Paleogene. Arabian Journal of Geoscience.

Response of the ground and adjacent buildings due to tunnelling in completely weathered granitic soil. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 43, 377-388.

Radon concentration in drinking water sources of the region adjacent to a tectonically active Karak Thrust, southern Kohat Plateau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. ISSN 0236-5731, J Radioanal Nucl Chem, DOI 10.1007/s10967-014-3257-0.