The sedimentary rock record is the main archive of Earth’s climate and environment changes. In CAPS, we focus on Mesozoic (250 – 66 Myr ago) secular and transient climate changes, investigating their cause, their interaction with the global carbon cycle, their effect on continental weathering rate, the associated sea-level changes, and how these have ultimately impacted shallow-marine carbonate ecosystems.

We employ a vast array of boots-on-the-ground sedimentological and stratigraphic investigations combined with carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and other state-of-the-art elemental and isotopic proxies.

We are currently working on several projects:

- The early Toarcian Jenkyns Event (Jurassic, ca. 183 Myr ago): Insights from fluvial sedimentary archives in the Central High Atlas Basin of Morocco

- Mesozoic cooling events and glaciations episodes: Contrasting the Bajocian, Valanginian and Aptian examples

- Evolution of the Jurassic neritic carbonate factory and reefs in the Central High Atlas Basin of Morocco

- Unlocking sub-millennial climate records in Paleocene coal from Svalbard