Dr. SHAUKAT ALI

Dr. SHAUKAT ALI

Designation: Associate Professor (Tenured)

Phone: +92-5811-960015 (Ext. 164)

Email: dr.shaukat@kiu.edu.pk

Dr. Shaukat Ali is a dedicated academic and researcher with expertise in water resources management, Occupational Safety Health and Environment, Environmental Toxicology, climate change, and environmental sustainability. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the Ocean University of China (funded by the China Scholarship Council) and an M.Phil. from the University of Karachi (funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan). He is currently serving as an Associate Professor at Karakoram International University (KIU), Gilgit-Baltistan, Dr. Ali has been a key contributor to the institution since 2012. His leadership roles include: • Chairman, Department of Environmental Sciences (2022–2025) – Spearheaded curriculum development, research initiatives, and departmental growth. • Founder Section Editor, Journal of Mountain Area Research – Promoting high-impact research on mountain ecosystems. • Founder Chair, Climate Change Studies Program – Driving interdisciplinary research and policy engagement on climate resilience. Key Contributions • Research & Grants: Published extensively in reputed journals and secured competitive funding from HEC, Pakistan Science Foundation, and international collaborators. • Teaching: Leads graduate/postgraduate courses in Water Resources Management, blending theoretical frameworks with field-based applications. • Global Engagement: Enhanced research methodologies as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oregon, USA (2014) and actively collaborates with international institutions. • Institutional Development: Passionate about advancing KIU’s academic excellence through grant evaluations, peer reviews, and strategic partnerships.

  • B.Sc, Biological Sciences University of Peshawar
  • M.Sc, Environmental Sciences University of Peshawar
  • M.Phil, Marine Environmental Sciences CEMB, University of Karachi
  • PhD, Environmental Sciences CESE,Ocean University of China, Qingdao
  • Research Associate CEMB, University of Karachi
  • Senior Research Scholar CESE, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, P.R. China
  • Assistant Professor Karakoram International University Gilgit
  • Assistant Professor University of Oregon, USA
  • Chairman Department of Environmental Sciences, Karakoram International University
  • Appraisal of Deforestation and Environmental Degradation
  • Indigenous Knowledge (Myths and Realities) about snow leopard
  • Evaluation of the efficacy of different species of Trout Fish as a bio-indicators of water quality in some selected areas of Gilgit-Baltistan
  • Impacts of Climate change on the storage of fresh water resources in the western Karakoram and Himalaya region and their impacts on downstream population
  • Indigenous Perception About Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Resources in Karakoram & Himalaya Regions
  • Status and Trends of Solid Waste: A Study Of Experimental and Computational Characterization of Volatile Odorous Compounds from the Initial Decomposition of Municipal Solid Waste in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

  • M. Phil Scholarship Award

    University Grants Commission of Pakistan (session: 2005-2009)

  • PhD Scholarship Award

    CSC, Government of People’s Republic of China (session: 2009-2012).

  • Young Scientist Financial Support Award

    Korean Ocean Research & Development Institute (KORDI), Busan, Republic of Korea (January 06, 2011)

  • IPFP Award

    Interim-Placement of Fresh PhD Program by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (10-19-2012- 05-01-2013)

  • Short-Term Visiting Scholar

    This three months Short Term Scholar award was offered by "Centre for Asian & Pacific Studies (CAPS), University of Oregon (UO), USA, through the KIU-UO academic exchange program, sponsored US State Dept. (10-01-2014 - 12-09-2014)

  • HEC approved Ph.D. supervisor

    Higher Education Commission of Pakistan

  • • Regional Focal Person, Zero Waste Alliance of Pakistan (ZWAP) . National Member of Curriculum Development of Environmental Science, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan • Member of Asian Council of Science Editors (Membership No: 242619414) • Member of 44th Steering Committee of Pakistan Science Foundation • Earned competitive research grants from HEC-Pakistan and Pakistan Science Foundation •

  • Environmental toxicology

    • Biomonitoring of heavy metals 
    • Antioxidant enzyme activities using organic pollutants 
    • Bioassays 
    • Assessment of drinking water quality 
    • Isolation , Characterization and Identification of Soil Bacterias degredaing environmental pollutants.

    Climate Change

    • Climate change variability trends and implications for Freshwater Resources

    Biodiversity and Conservation

    •  Indigenous knowledge  of endanger species and conservation status 
    • Deforestation & Environmental Degredations
    • 1., Shaukat Ali, Farida Begum, Syed Arif Hussain, Ahmed Saeed Khan, Haibat Ali, Tika Khan, Ghulam Raza, Karamat Ali, Rehmat Karim. (2014). Biomonitoring of Heavy Metals availability in the Marine Environment of Karachi, Pakistan, Using Oysters (Crassostrea Sp.). International Journal of Biosciences , Vol. 4, (7): p. 249-257
    • 2., Shaukat ALI, LIU Guangxing, LI Zhengyan, XU Donghui, HUANG Yousong, and CHEN Hongju (2014). Toxicity of Five Phenolic Compounds to the Brine Shrimp Artemia sinica (Crustacea: Artemiidae). Journal of Ocean University of China, Vol.13: 141-145.
    • 3., Shaukat Ali, Farida Begum, Syed Arif Hussain, Muhammad Akbar, Sujjad Hyder, Ghulam Raza, Salar Ali. 2014. Effect of salinity and prey algae on Artemia sinica (Anostraca: Artemiidae) growth and survival. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 259-263
    • 5., Ahmed Saeed Khan, Muhammad Hassan, Shaukat Ali (2014). Secondary metabolites studies of some selected plants of district Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research, vol. 6 (3): 467-471
    • 6., Tika Khan,, Imtiaz Ahmed Khan, Nisar Ahmed, Khalil Ahmed, Shaukat Ali, Abdul Rehman, Haibat Ali, Istiaq Hussain, Karamat Ali, Syed Arif Hussain, Maqsood Hussain. (2014). Elaboration of phylogenetic studies in Berberis spp. from Karakoram Ranges. I. morpho-pathological data. International Journal of Biosciences. Vol. 4 (11), p. 285-293.
    • 11., Salar Ali, Syed Arif Hussain, Shaukat Ali, Qamar Abbas, Maqsood Hussain, Wajid Ali, Mohammad Akber, Mudassir Hassan Khan, Jamal Hussain. 2014. Water quality assessment of Gilgit river, using fecal and total coliform as indicators. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 343-347
    • 17., Shaukat Ali, Guangxing Liu, Yousong Huang, Chen Hongju and Dong-hui Xu, (2013). Evaluation of the effectiveness of Artemia sinica (Crustacea: Artemiidae) cysts chorion as barrier to nonylphenol exposure, Effect on hatching and survival. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, Vol. 21(12): p.3705-3710.
    • 18., Shaukat Ali, Guangxing, Liu, (2013).Antioxidant enzyme activities in Exopalaemon carinicauda, Holthuis 1950 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in response to naphthalene. Advanced Science Letters, Vol. 19 (12): 3655-3659
    • 19., Shaukat Ali, Guangxing Liu, Zhengyan Li (2013). The Acute Toxicity of Phenolic Compounds and Heavy Metals on Brine Shrimp Artemia sinica (Crustacea: Artemiidae). Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), Vol.45 (1): 21-24
    • 20., Sujjad Hyder, Surayya Khatoon, Sher Wali Khan, Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Akbar, Nasiba Ibrahim, Ehsan Ali (2014). Inventorying of Agro- biodiversity of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. International Journal of Agriculture and Agronomy Research, vol. 5(2):134-138.
    • 21., Syed Arif Hussain, Khalil Ahmad, Shaukat Ali, Sujjad Hyder, Muhammad Akbar, Qamar Abbas, Salar Ali, Maqsood Hussain. (2014). Prevalence of targeted parasites in Pit latrine samples from Oshkhandas valley, Gilgit, Pakistan. International Journal of Bio-Sciences Vol. 5, No. 6, p. 135-139
    • 22., Farida Begum, Roshan Man Bajracharya, Bishal Kumar Sitaula, Subodh Sharma, Shaukat Ali, Haibat Ali. (2014). Seasonal dynamics and land use effect on soil Microarthropod communities in the Mid-hills of Nepal. International Journal of Agriculture and Agronomy Research, vol. 5(2):114-123.
    • 23., Farida Begum1, Batool Zuhra, Akbar Khan, Salma Abrar Durrani, Shaukat Ali, Karamat Ali, Sultan Ishaq. (2014). Study of soil macrofauna in relation with some of selected soil physio- chemical properties at sumayar-nagar in district Hunza- Nagar Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences Vol. 5(3): 124-132
    • 24., Sultan Ishaq, Farida Begum, Karamat Ali, Sher Ahmed, Shaukat Ali, Rehmat Karim, Haibat Ali, Salma A. Durrani. Assessment of soil quality under different land use practices in Altit Valley, Hunza Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan. In Proceedings of International conference on Forest, Soil and Rural Livelihood in a Changing Climate”, Kathmandu , Nepal; 09/2014
    • 25., Karamat Ali, Farida Begum, Sultan Ishaq, Sher Ahmed, Salma A. Durrani, Shaukat Ali, Arif Hussain. Assessment of Impact of Attabad Disaster on Soil Physio-chemical properties of upper Hunza, Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan. In Proceedings of International conference on Forest, Soil and Rural Livelihood in a Changing Climate”, Kathmandu , Nepal; 09/2014
    • 26., Sultan Ishaq, Farida Begum, Karamat Ali, Sher Ahmed, Shaukat Ali, Haibat Ali, Sher Sultan Baig, Mohd. Zafar Khan, Salar Ali. 2015. Soil quality assessment using selected physico-chemical indicators in AltitHunza, Gilgit-Baltistan. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental SciencesVol. 6, No. 1, p. 454-459
    • 29., Shaukat Ali, Ajaz Ali, Syed Arif Hussain, Khadim Hussain, Farida Begum, Muhammad Akbar, Ghulam Raza, Karamat Ali, Sujjad Hyder, Functional status and water quality analysis of fifty-six water purification plants established at Gilgit District, Pakistan. of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences Vol. 6, No. 4, p. 332-340, 2015
    • 30., Muhammad Akbar, Shaukat Ali, Sujjad Hyder, Muhammad Ali, Farida Begum ,Ghulam Raza. (2015). Seedling age and growth rate of a gymnospermic tree species (Pinus wallichiana) from Ganji valley District Skardu Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. International Journal of Advanced Research , Volume 3, Issue 4, 1057-1061
    • Shaukat Ali*, Saif-Ud-Din, Salar Ali, Maisoor Ahmed Nafees, Nighat Gul (2018). Fresenius Environmental Bulletin , Vol.27(8); 5599-5604. Phytotoxic Potential of Some Indigenous Plant Extracts as Growth Inhibitors against Tribolium Castaneum,, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin , Vol.27(8); 5599-5604.
    • Shaukat Ali*, Rubina and Sadiq Hussain. Assessment of Freshwater Springs Associated Diseases and Indigenous Perception in Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan. , Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences. 2018; 34 (1): 121-124. ​​​​​​​
    • Nasir Hussain and Shaukat Ali*, et al. Climate Change Variability Trends and Implications for Freshwater Resources in Pakistan’s Eastern Hindu Kush Region., Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. Vol. 27, No. 2 (2018), 665-673
    • Batool Zuhra, Khalil Ahmad and Shaukat Ali*, et al. Assessing the Toxic Potential of Insecticide and Indigenous Botanical Extract against Stored Grain Pest, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). , Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol.27 (5), (2018), 2377–2383
    • Sadaf Kayani, Manzoor Hussain, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Shazia Sultana, Maryam Akram Butt, Shaukat Ali, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Sehrosh Mir. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Light Microscopy (LM)-based Palyno-morphological views of Solanaceae in Western Himalaya., Microscopy Research and Technique (2018) Article DOI: 10.1002/jemt.23097)
    • Muhammad Ali, Ghulam Raza, Shaukat Ali, et al. The Tribe Coccinellini Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Sindh, Pakistan., The Coleopterists Bulletin, (2018): 72 (3): 629-638.
    • Muhammad Arshad, Abdur Rahim, Shaukat Ali, Sajjad Ahmad, Rab Nawaz (2018). Physicochemical and sensory evaluation of blended biscuit of apple, pear and almond. , Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, Vol 27 (9): 6146-6151
    • Muhammad Ali, Khalil Ahmed, Shaukat Ali, et al (2018). An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) including new records from Pakistan., ZooKeys (Accepted, In press) https://doi. org/10.3897/zookeys.@@.22543
    • Azhar Hussain, Haibat Ali, Haider Abbas, Sher Wali Khan, Sartaj Ali, Alamdar Hussain and Shaukat Ali. Spatial Analysis of Selceted Soil Parameters in Potato Growing Areas of Mountainous Region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. , Pakistan Journal of Botany, Volume No. 50(2): issue 2018
    • Nelofar, Shaukat Ali *, Salma Durrani, Ghulam Raza, Iqtidar Hussain, Azhar Hussain . Isolation, Characterization and Identification of Pyrasulfotole Degrading Soil Bacteria. , Fresenius Environmental Bulletin; 2017, Vol. 26 (5), p3577-3582
    • Mariam, Shaukat Ali* et al. (2016). Isolation and Characterization of Carfentrazone-Ethyl Degrading Soil Bacteria from Different Agricultural Lands of Punjab and Sindh Provinces, Pakistan, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, Vol. 25 (11), p-4982-4987
    • Salar Ali, Gao Junfeng, Farida Begum, Atta Rasool, Muhammad Ismail, Shaukat Ali, Shujaat Ali (2016). Health Assessment Using Aqua-Quality Indicators of Alpine Streams (Khunjerab National Park (KNP), Gilgit, Pakistan, Environmental Science and Pollution Research; 24(5):4685-4698
    • Muhammad Ali, Khalil Ahmed, Shaukat Ali et al., An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) including new records from Pakistan., ZooKeys 803: 93-120
    • Muhammad Arshad, Abdul Rahim, Shaukat Ali, S Ahmad, R Nawaz. Physicochemical and Sensor Evaluation of Blended Biscuit of Apple, Pear and Almond. , Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 27 (9), 6146-6151
    • Sadaf Kayani, Manzoor Hussain, Mushtaq Ahmad, | Muhammad Zafar, Shazia Sultana, Maryam Akram Butt, Shaukat Ali, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Sehrosh Mir. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Light Microscopy based Palyno-morphological views of Solanaceae in Western Himalaya, Microscopy Research and Technique 10.1002/jemt.23097
    • Muhammad Ali, Ghulam Raza, Shaukat Ali, et al.., The Tribe Coccinellini Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Sindh, Pakistan, The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3): 629- 638
    • Azfar Hussain and Shaukat Ali* et al. (2019). Climate Change Perspective In Mountain Area: Impacts and Adaptations in Naltar Valley, Western Himalaya, Pakistan, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 28(9):312-320
    • Azhar Hussain and Shaukat Ali, e t al. Spatial distribution of early blight disease on tomato, climatic factors and bio-efficacy of plant extracts against Alternaria solani., Acta Sci. Pol. Hortorum Cultus, 18(6) 2019, 29–38
    • Azhar Hussain, Haibat Ali, Haider Abbas, Sher Wali Khan, Sartaj Ali, Alamdar Hussain and Shaukat Ali. Spatial analysis of selected soil parameters in potato growing areas of mountainous region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Pakistan , Journal of Botany Vol 51(2): 623-630
    • Jamal Hussain, Muhammad Akbar, Shaukat Ali, et al. (2019). Assessment of Natural Forest Conservation Using Diameter Size Classes Distributions in Naltar Valley, a dry temperate mountainous region, Pakistan. , . Polish Journal of Environmental Studies Vol. 29, No. 1
    • Jamal Hussain , Kui Zhou , Muhammad Akbar , Muhammad Zafar khan , Ghulam Raza , Shaukat Ali, Alamdar Hussain, Qamar Abbas , Garee Khan, Mayoor Khan, Hassan Abbas , Saad Iqbal, Ali Ghulam . Dependence of rural livelihoods on forest resources in Naltar Valley, a dry temperate mountainous region, Pakistan., Global Ecology and Conservation, 20
    • Salar Ali, Junfeng Gao, Atta Rasool, Giri Raj Kattel & Shaukat Ali. Habitat quality assessment of Alpine Streamsusing ARISE: a classification tool for Alpine RIverand Stream Ecosystems in Khunjerab NationalPark Gilgit, Pakistan (PDF) Habitat quality assessment of Alpine Streams using ARISE: a classification tool for Alpine RIver and Stream Ecosystems in Khunjerab National Park Gilgit, Pakistan. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358580413_Habitat_quality_assessment_of_Alpine_Streams_using_ARISE_a_classification_tool_for_Alpine_RIver_and_Stream_Ecosystems_in_Khunjerab_National_Park_Gilgit_Pakistan , Geomicrobiology Journal
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