New research: Climate of the Marrakech High Atlas

Our latest research paper which explores the climate of the Marrakech High Atlas is out now in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, and available Open Access.

You can read the paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230430.2022.2046897

In the paper, we take a look at recent climate data from a network of weather stations in the region that are run by Le Laboratoire Mixte I…

EGU 2021 - Palaeoenvironmental history at Yagour Plateau

We're at vEGU21, and Ben and Henk will be giving presentations to update on the project, this coming Thursday (29th April 2021).

If you can't make the conference, you can find the live 2 minute (single slide) and full display materials for both presentations on the website.

Henk will be giving an update on his work at Yagour Plateau, where we have a full Holocene and Late-glacial sedime…

EGU 2021 - Glaciation in the High Atlas

We're at vEGU21, and Ben and Henk will be giving presentations to update on the project, this coming Thursday (29th April 2021).

If you can't make the conference, you can find the live 2 minute (single slide) and full display materials for both presentations on the website.

To kick off, Ben will be giving an overview of the project and where we are following delays caused by COVID, incl…

Sedimentological update on the Yagour Plateau core

Henk provided an update on the sedimentological work he has been doing on the core we collected from the Yagour Plateau back in 2019, with a poster presentation to the Quaternary Research Association ADM 2021.

Since the fieldtrip, the core has undergone multiple sedimentological analyses including (but not limited to) XRF scanning and grain size analysis, as well as being radiocarbon dated at A…

Glaciers in the Marrakech High Atlas

Our new paper which explores potential locations of glaciers in the Marrakech High Atlas is out now in Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, and available Open Access.

You can read the paper here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42990-020-00027-4

Whilst there are no glaciers in the High Atlas today, "niche" glaciers were evident as recently as last century. Snow patches, areas …

Climate change in the High Atlas

Find out more about our project, and climate change in the High Atlas, in an article written by Benjamin Bell in plain English on the Discover Educational website.

Trip to Neve Permanent - September 2019

Phil and Will took a trip to the "Névé Permanent" on the Tazaghart plateau to collect rock samples for cosmogenic dating.

Starting from the base in Imlil, and accompanied by two guides, the team walked 8 hours, ascending some 1600 metres to reach the Lepiney hut, which would be home for 2 nights.

After a stormy first night, the next couple of days was spent sampling moraines, from the…

Coring and Exploring the High Atlas

The team (Henk, Will and Ben) visited the High Atlas for a week in early June, to collect sediment cores and rock samples for the research project, and were joined in the field by Ali Rhoujjati (Marrakech University) and Abdel Eawague.

Our first port of call was to visit the Oukaïmeden plateau (where we have previously cored) to check out the vegetation. On our previous fieldtrip to Oukaïmed…