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,...

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...

From the 22th - 27th of June 2021 the Aquatic Sciences Meeting (ASLO 2021) was held in a virtual form during the Coronavirus period. One Oral presentation was given by one of the Salidraa team members, Imane Mahjoubi, who presented her research about the enhancement...

Travel restrictions and health risks caused by the Corona virus prohibited long planned field work during the first lockdowns, especially for the SaliDraa members based in Germany. By the end of the summer, however, it was finally possible for the Moroccan colleagues from the University...

Lisa Bossenbroek participated from the 6th - 8th of October to the first seminar organized in the context of the Post-Doc Academy for Transformational Leadership, initiated and funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in collaboration with four academic centres Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leuphana University of...