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 …
Glaciers in the Marrakech High Atlas
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
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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…
New photos added to the gallery
New photos have been added to the gallery from the 2nd year Manchester Geography student fieldtrip to the High Atlas, led by Phil Hughes. Be sure to check them out here.
QRA Annual discussion meeting 2019
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High Atlas research was featured at the recent Quaternary Research Association (QRA) annual meeting at the University of Chester to kick off 2019.
Will Fletcher delivered a talk on the impact of snow melt on the alpine ecology of the Marrakech High Atlas, and introduced High Atlas glaciers as "water towers" of Morocco.
Using high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) a…
Fieldtrip to the High Atlas, October 2018
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As we start work on our new research project, we took a short fieldtrip to the (snowy!) High Atlas to explore the study area and collect some initial rock samples for cosmogenic dating.
The trip included a visit to our "base of operations" at the village of Imlil, with surrounding valleys, including the Arromd valley being a focus research area. We also visited the village (and ski…
Welcome
Welcome to our project website! Holocene Glaciers and Environmental Change in the High Atlas, Morocco, is a Leverhulme funded project that seeks to explore the role of glaciers in the High Atlas during the Holocene, and how they may have helped shape the environment and impacted on human activity.
This site will keep you up to date on the project's progress and its outcomes, including publ…