Bishal Nath Upreti (born April 22, 1951 in

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

) is a geologist and academic at the Department of Geology, Tri-Chandra Campus,

Tribhuvan University Tribhuvan University (TU; ) is a public university located in Kirtipur, Kathmandu Valley, Kathmandu, Nepal. Established in 1959, TU is the oldest and the largest university in Nepal. It offers 1,000 undergraduate and 500 postgraduate programs a ...

Kirtipur Kirtipur (; Nepal Bhasa: किपू ''Kipoo'') is a Municipality and an ancient city of Nepal. The Newars are the natives of Kipoo (Kirtipur). It is located in the Kathmandu Valley 5 km south-west of the city of Kathmandu. It is one of th ...

Kathmandu Kathmandu () is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. As per the 2021 Nepal census, it has a population of 845,767 residing in 105,649 households, with approximately 4 mi ...

Career

Upreti has worked for over eighteen years as the head of the Central Department of Geology at Kirtipur Campus and the Department of Geology, Tri-Chandra Campus, Tribhuvan University in

. His academic work specialises in

ese geology. His teaching of both undergraduate and post-graduate students has focussed on

Engineering Geology Engineering geology is the application of geology to engineering study for the purpose of assuring that the geological factors regarding the location, design, construction, operation and maintenance of engineering works are recognized and accou ...

both in Nepal and abroad. Upreti has co-edited a book about the geology of the Nepalese

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than list of h ...

. he has also co-edited a book about landslide hazard management and control in the

Hindukush The Hindu Kush is an mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and eastern Afghanistan into northwestern Pakistan and far southeastern Tajikistan. The range forms the western section of ...

-Himalaya region. In 1999, Upreti was a visiting professor at the

Hiroshima University is a Japanese national research university located in Higashihiroshima and Hiroshima, Japan. Established in 1929, it was chartered as a university in 1949 following the merge of a number of national educational institutions. Its abbreviated f ...

, Japan, under the fellowship of the Japan Society of Promotion of Sciences (JSPS). In 2001, he was a visitingprofessor at the

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) is a multidisciplinary research institute located at Jakkur, Bangalore, India. JNCASR was established by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of Indi ...

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

, India. Upreti is the president of the Disaster Preparedness Network-Nepal (DPNet) He is a long serving member of the Nepal Geological Society. Currently, Upreti is the president of NRNA-Zambia and also is a professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Zambia in Lusaka and a TWAS Research Professor (2012-2017) in the same university.

Awards

* Suprabal Gorkha Dakshin Bahu, conferred by King

Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (; 29 December 1945 – 1 June 2001) was King of Nepal from 1972 until his assassination in 2001. Early life and education Birendra was born at the Narayanhiti Royal Palace in Kathmandu as the eldest son of th ...

, 1996. * Mahendra Vidhya Bhusan Class 'A', conferred by King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, 1980. * Mahendra Vidhya Bhusan Class 'B', conferred by King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, 1973. * Natural Disaster Relief Medal, conferred by the

Government of Nepal The Government of Nepal () is the central executive authority of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. The government is led by the Prime Minister of Nepal, prime minister (K. P. Sharma Oli, K.P. Oli since 15 July 2024) who selects all the o ...

. * C.N.R. Rao Prize for scientific research, 2015. Upreti received the award "for his outstanding contributions to the investigation of the stratigraphy and tectonics of the Nepal Himalayas and our understanding of the

geology of Nepal The geology of Nepal is dominated by the Himalaya, the highest, youngest and a very highly active mountain range. Himalaya is a type locality for the study of on-going continent-continent collision tectonics. The Himalayan arc extends about f ...

Research publications

Upreti, B.N., Dhital, M.R., 1996.

Landslide Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...

studies and management in Nepal. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, 87p.

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