As part of the multi- and transdisciplinary approach of the Salidraa juj project, which focuses on exchange and cooperation with experts, decision-makers and locals, the meeting with stakeholders in Ouarzazate had the objectives of presenting the results of our research and understanding of the system...
Following meetings in Marrakesh, for now the last ecological field trip took place in September and October 2022, with the aim of collecting additional data from the confluences. However, only at two of four confluences the sampling of macroinvertebrates, algae and physico-chemical parameters was possible,...
The socio-economic team conducted fieldwork in the Middle Draa Valley between September 13 and November 5. Luis worked in an area of the Middle Draa Valley known as Feija, a vast plain containing a shallow aquifer near the city of Zagora. In this plain, watermelon...
Following the Moroccan field trips, the SaliDraa-Team was taking part at the 2nd SIBECOL-AIL Meeting 2022, taking place from the 3rd to 8th July in the Portuguese city of Aveiro. While the main audience of the conference is conducting research in the Iberian Peninsula, the...
In June 2022, a further field trip was conducted to collect samples from the previous visited sampling sites, covering the middle of the dry season. While this field campaign was the for now last one to visit all the sites selected already in February 2020,...
After the exploratory phase conducted by Imane in the last field trip, this one consists of conducting the actual and full economic survey for the replacement cost approach research in five oases of the Middle Draa Valley. The survey was conducted in Agdz, Ternata, Zagora,...
A follow-up ecological field trip for the October campaign was conducted in March 2022 by a small group of 5 researchers. The main objective was to resample the before visited sites in order to cover different seasons (i.e., the end of the dry and the...
In October 2021, after more than one and a half years of travel restrictions due to the Corona pandemic, the Germany-based researchers of the SaliDraa-project were finally able to travel to the Draa river basin to conduct field work. After a group meeting in Marrakesh...
The socio-economic team conducted fieldwork in the Middle Draa Valley from Sep 20th to Dec the 2nd. Imane conducted questionnaires for a joint study with the ecological team, in relation to the water quality in the upper, middle and lower draa valley and its relation...
From the 25th - 30th of July 2021 the 12th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS 12) was held as a virtual conference due to the health risks and travel restrictions caused by the Coronavirus. Nevertheless, thanks to the efforts of the organizers, the virtual...
