Dr. Ilham Bouimetarhan

Name:		Dr. Ilham Bouimetarhan
Abteilung:		Historical Geology - Palaeontology
Funktionen:		Postdoctoral Researcher
Raum:		GEO / Geo 5160
Telefon:		0421 218 - 65138
Fax:		0421 218 - 4451
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Research interests

Climate variability in Africa (Western Sahel and Tanzania/Kenya region) inferred from high-resolution palynological studies
Reconstruction of oceanic conditions in the tropical eastern Atlantic and western Indian Oceans
Paleoecological analysis (pollen, spores, dinoflagellates and fresh water algae) in marine sediments off NW and SE Africa
Development of African vegetation during times of climate changes
Land-Ocean-Atmosphere correlation

Project Area Ocean and Climate
Former Project A8: Influence of Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation on tropical sea surface temperature and North African climate
Current project OC2 : Glacial to Holocene history of the tropical rainbelt

CV
Publications
Expeditions
Awards
Other activities
oral presentations (*Invited talks)
Poster presentations
Not MARUM publications

CV

July 2009-Present	Postdoctoral Researcher	MARUM project: Ocean and Climate	MARUM, University of Bremen
February 2006-April 2009	Ph.D student	Oceanic and climatic variability in the eastern tropical North Atlantic and over western Sahel during the last deglaciation and the Holocene	MARUM, University of Bremen
2004	MSc. Integrated Management of Littoral and Marine Environments.	Ecological and environmental study of Nador lagoon (NE Morocco) EU project COLASU: Sustainability of Mediterranean Coastal Lagoon Ecosystems Under Semi-Arid Climate	Faculté des sciences de Rabat, Morocco
2001	“Licence és-sciences” in Geology	Palynology, Paleobotanic and Application to Oil Research.	Faculté des sciences de Rabat, Morocco
1997	Baccalauréat	sciences expérimentales	Lycée Al Maghreb Al Arabi. Académie de Rabat, Morocco.

Publications

I. Bouimetarhan, M. Prange, E. Schefuß, L. Dupont, J. Lippold, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld (under review). Sahel megadrought during Heinrich Stadial 1: Evidence for a three-phase evolution of the low- and mid-level West African wind system.
I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, E. Schefuß, G. Mollenhauer, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld (2009b). Palynological evidence for climatic and oceanic variability off NW Africa during the late Holocene. Quaternary Research 72, 188-197.
I. Bouimetarhan, F. Marret, L. Dupont, K. Zonneveld (2009a). Dinoflagellate cyst distribution in marine surface sediments off West Africa (6 – 17°N) in relation to sea-surface conditions, freshwater input and seasonal coastal upwelling. Marine Micropaleontology 71, 113-130.
I. Bouimetarhan (2009). Oceanic and climatic variability in the eastern tropical North Atlantic and over the western sahel during the last deglaciation and the Holocene. PhD thesis, University of Bremen. 196 pp.
K. Mertens, S. Ribeiro, I. Bouimetarhan, H. Caner, N. Combourieu-Nebout, B. Dale, A. De Vernal, M. Ellegaard, M. Filipova, A. Godhe, E. Goubert, K. Grøsfjeld, U. Holzwarth, U. Kotthoff, S.A.G. Leroy, L. Londeix, F. Marret, K. Matsuoka, P.J. Mudie,L. Naudts, J-L. Peña-Manjarrez, A. Persson, S-M. Popescu, V. Pospelova, F. Sangiorgi et al. (2009). Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments and its potential use as a salinity proxy. Marine Micropalaeontology 70, 54-69.

Expeditions

2009	Europrox Expedition	Nouakchott - Nouakchott	Fieldwork in Mauritania	Tracking the source of the terrigenous sediments found in the ocean sediments of the Atlantic Ocean
2008	M75-2	Dar es Salam - Dar es Salam	RV Meteor	Western Indian Ocean Climate and Sedimentation
2005	M65-2	Dakar - Las Palmas	RV Meteor	Climate History and Sedimentation Processes off NW Africa
2005	M65-1	Dakar - Dakar	RV Meteor	Climate History and Sedimentation Processes off NW Africa
2005	CADIPOR-2	Cadiz - Cadiz	RV Belgica	Golf of Cadiz, off Larache, Morocco
2004	TTR-14	Barcelona - Naples	RV Prof. Logachev	Tyrrhenian sea (Sardinia margin and Stromboli / Massili basins)

Awards

2007	AASP Student Scholarship Award (American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists)

Other activities

2010	Postdoctoral scholar	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	Columbia University, New York. USA
2008	Research stay	Department of Palynology - School of Geography	Liverpool University, UK
2004	Research stay	Funded by Flanders government and IOC/UNESCO: micropaleontological studies of deep sea sedimentary cores.	Renard Centre of marine Geology, RCMG – Ghent University, Belgium.
2002	M.Sc. training	Hydrological study of coastal ground water “R’mel” (region of Larache, NW Morocco) Direction de la surveillance et de la prévention des risques, Division de la Gestion Environnementale du Milieu Naturel.	Ministère de l’environnement. Rabat, Morocco.
2005	Organizing Committee's Secretary	International field workshop - The flysch domain of N-W Alpine Rif belt	Tanger, Morocco.
2005	Organizing Committee's Secretary	International conference and Post Cruise Meeting: The TTR interdisciplinary approach towards studies of the European and N. African margins	Marrakech, Morocco.

oral presentations (*Invited talks)

I. Bouimetarhan, E. Schefuß, M. Prange, L. Dupont, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld. Evidence for contrasting changes in marine productivity and vegetation signal within Heinrich Stadial 1 in western sahel: high latitudes vs low latitudes. DINO 9, the 9th International conference on modern and fossil dinoflagellates. Liverpool, UK, August-September 2011
* I. Bouimetarhan, E. Schefuß, M. Prange, L. Dupont, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld (keynote speaker). Contrasting changes in vegetation and West African wind systems over the west African Sahel region during Heinrich Stadial 1. The XVIII INQUA-Congress. Bern, Switzerland, July 2011
* I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, K. Zonneveld. Les changements climatiques dans la région du Sahel/Sahra durant la derniére déglaciation: Evidences palynologiques offshore de l'Afrique de l'ouest. Seminar for postgraduate students. Faculte des sciences et techniques, Tanger, Morocco, March 2010.
* I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, E. Schefuss, G. Mollenhauer, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld. Holocene climatic and oceanic variability in and off western Sahel related to the latitudinal migration of the ITCZ. The West African Quaternary Paleoclimatic/Sea Level Changes and Human Responses: Evidences From Marine and Terrestrial Sources. Ibadan, Nigeria, October 2009
I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, E. Schefuss, G. Mollenhauer, J-B. Stuut, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld. Concerted climatic and oceanic variability in and off western Sahel related to the latitudinal migration of the ITCZ through the late Holocene warm period. ESF research conference: Mechanisms of Quaternary climate change: stability of warm phases in the past and in the future. Innsbruck, Austria, June 2009
I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, E. Schefuss, G. Mollenhauer, J-B. Stuut, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld. Climatic and oceanic variability off NW Africa during the late Holocene: high-resolution palynological study. 8th international conference on modern and fossil dinoflagellates. Montréal, Canada, May 2008
I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, E. Schefuss, G. Mollenhauer, J-B. Stuut, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld. Palynological evidences for climatic and oceanic variability off NW Africa during the late Holocene. EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 2008
* I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, E. Schefuss, G. Mollenhauer, J-B. Stuut, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld. variabilités océaniques et climatiques offshore de l’Afrique Nord-ouest basées sur des données palynologiques. Congrés Franco-Maghrébin des sciences de la mer. El Jadida, Morocco, November 2007
I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, K. Zonneveld. Holocene dinoflagellate cysts and pollen analysis off Senegal: a palynological approach to land-sea correlation. Workshop in Dinoflagellates and their cysts, their ecology and databases for palaeoenvitonmental reconstructions. Copenhagen. Denmark, November 2006

Poster presentations

I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, K. Zonneveld. Reconstructing marine productivity and continental climate tropical southeastern Africa (off Tanzania) over the past 19000 years: Evidence from palynology. The XVIII INQUA-Congress. Bern, Switzerland, July 2011
I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, E. Schefuss, G. Mollenhauer, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld. Climatic variability in western sahel related to the latitudinal migration of the tropical rainbelt through the late Holocene. Evidence from palynology. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, USA, December 2009
I. Bouimetarhan, F. Marret, L. Dupont, K. Zonneveld. Distribution of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts and pollen in marine surface sediments off NW Africa in relationship to environmental conditions. 8th international conference on modern and fossil dinoflagellates. Montréal, Canada, May 2008
J. Nizou, T. Hanebuth, I. Bouimetarhan, C. Vogt., J.-B. Stuut, M. Zabel. Chemistry and mineralogy of aeolian and fluvial supply in shallow water sediments off Senegal (NW Africa). Goldschmidt Conference. Vancouver, Canada, July 2008
I. Bouimetarhan, L. Dupont, E. Schefuss, G. Mollenhauer, J-B. Stuut, S. Mulitza, K. Zonneveld (Poster). Late Holocene climatic variability off Senegal: palynological approach to land-sea correlation. 9th International conferneces on Palaeoceanography (ICP9). Shanghai, China, September 2007

Not MARUM publications

Van Rooij, D., Depreiter,D., Bouimetarhan, I., De Boever, E., De Rycker, K., Foubert, A., Huvenne, V., Reveillaud, J., Staelens, P., Vercruysse, J., Versteeg, W., Henriet, J.P. (2005). First sighting of active fluid venting in the Gulf of Cadiz. EOS 86 (49), 509-511
I. Bouimetarhan, A. Foubert, A. Slimane, J-P. Henriet, M. Ivanov, N. Hamoumi (2005). Planktonic foraminifera assemblages: An indicator of Pleistocene – Holocene paleoenvironmental changes in south-eastern Sardinia margin and Stromboli basin. UNESCO/IOC Workshop report 197, 44.
F. Ruiz, M. Abad, N. Hamoumi, M. Labraimi, I. Bouimetarhan, E. H Boumaggard (2004). Los ostrácodos como indicadores ambientales: la laguna de Nador (NE de Marruecos). Geotemas 6 (2) 307-310
Gonzlez-Regalado M.L., Ruiz F., Abad M., Tosquella J., Hamoumi N., Labraimi M., Boumaggard E.H., Bouimetarhan I., Garcia E.X.M., Gueddari F., Toumi A., Dassy K., Ben Ahmed R (2004). Distribución de los foraminferos bentónicos en climas semiridos: las lagunas de Nador (Marruecos) y El Meleh (Túnez). Geogaceta 37 211-214