@anthrosednet
What if everything that moves on #Earth is #sediment? Our #network empowers #multidisciplinary #collaboration and dialogue, promoting advances to tackle the unique dynamics of our changing planet ๐ โจFind out more: http://anthrosednet.com
What happens when landfill meets the sea?
Billy looks at how erosion is exposing a #coastal #landfill site, releasing hazardous materials into the #marine environment. Heโs developing new methods to track how these materials move along the coast. @qmul.bsky.social
Full video on our website!
"Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to #Mining" exposes the #sandmining crisis. Written by marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey and a team of interdisciplinary experts, we learn how sand is ecologically irreplaceable when removed from dynamic #sediment systems.
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Abstract Submission for our 2026 Conference is now OPEN! Find out more here: anthrosednet.com/2026-confere.... Deadline 6th May 2026.
The 2026 ASN Conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and creative thinkers with sediment in common.
The event is free and online!
How does urban waste become #coastline?
Rachel Rozanski explores #Torontoโs Leslie Street Spit, a human-made peninsula built from construction rubble since 1959. Today it forms a layered record of #UrbanGeology and shoreline reworking.
Full video on our website!
Urbanisation reshapes rivers more drastically than almost any other human activity! ๐๏ธ ๐ฐ ๐ญ
In Mandarino et al.โs paper on #Genova's Bisagno & Polcevera Rivers, the authors reconstruct >100 years of #urbanisation impacts on river morphology.
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0309...
#FluvialFriday #UrbanGeom
Flyer for the Anthropocene Sediment Network (ASN) with ASN logo at the top and the title โThe Anthropocene Sediment Network.โ Tagline: โEmpowering community-driven solutions on a changing planet.โ Text explains ASN supports collaborations advancing cross-disciplinary communication and research to understand Earthโs Anthropocene sediments. A banner reads: โMembership is free; all events are free and online.โ A QR code is shown. On the right, an โUpcoming Eventsโ list includes Sand Mining in India โ Wednesday 22nd April and ASN Conference 2026 โ Wednesday 27th May with abstract submission open 4th Marchโ6th May, plus the note โMany more events and opportunities are coming up!โ Bottom right button says โSign up HERE!โ with the website https://anthrosednet.com/ . Design uses green and gold tones with a stylised skyline and landscape along the bottom.
Thank you for being here! ๐๐
If youโd like to help more people find the #Anthropocene Sediment #Network, feel free to share this #flyer in your channels and communities! ๐
The ASN is a free, open #community for applied, multidisciplinary work on #sediment movement in a #human-shaped world ๐๐๐
How are we sinking and shaping #coastal plains?
Kay Koster looks at land #subsidence in the #Netherlands, where #anthropogenic #sediments have been used for centuries to stabilise low-lying land, but can also drive subsidence through compaction, drainage, and loading.
Full video on our website!
Lebreton's classic 2017 paper โRiver #plastic emissions to the worldโs oceansโ shows a snapshot of how bad the problem already was... now nearly 10 years ago!
Have we met this challenge, or has #river #pollution become worse?
Read more in our #Sedimentarium ๐
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How does mining reshape #landscapes?
Bryony Reynolds explores how millennia of #mining in England have reshaped topography, drainage, and vegetation. Lasting pits, spoil heaps, and underground voids still influence ground stability and landscape form.
Full video on our website!
How can we see the world with a different lens?๐
In #Timefulness, Marcia Bjornerud invites us to think like geologists and feel #Earthโs deep rhythms to consider how a longer sense of time may reshape todayโs decisions...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/39...
One of many books in our #Sedimentarium๐
Screenshot of an ASN team Zoom meeting showing eight participants in a grid layout. Top row (all left to right): Eun Young Lee, Catherine Russell, Julie Hope. Middle Row: Prantika Bhowmick, Diana Hatzenbรผhler, Cari Johnson. Bottom row: Penny Tristram, and Mohammed Mofizur Rahman. Participants are seated indoors in home or office settings and smiling toward their cameras.
Yesterday the #Anthropocene #Sediment Network Team met to map out our 2026 event programme! We made some important steps in planning our 2026 conference... watch this space!
If youโre interested in sediment and human impacts, now is a very good time to get involved! Membership is free!
How does sand mining reshape rivers?
@drchrishackney.bsky.social explores how #sandmining is transforming riverbeds in the #MekongRiver, #Cambodia. His work shows that bedforms become larger, steeper, and rougher than natural ones, altering flow and #sediment dynamics!
Full video on our website!
What is the ASN? How did it begin? And what are we doing?
Our founder and leader, Dr Catherine Russell, opened the first #Anthropocene #Sediment #Network conference in June 2025.
Weโre excited for this #interdisciplinary space for understanding materials and their motion on a human-shaped #Earth!
Our website has some shiny new updates and the Sedimentarium is looking spectacular with new Gallery, Maps, and Paper collections to go alongside our Library!
Check it out here: anthrosednet.com
Poster to advertise new issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review, showing an Arctic glacier. Image by Flora Mary Bartlett.
We are excited to share that the newest issue of ๐๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด is now live! Three essays, a visual narrative, a short story, and an interview join forces to uncover missing pieces in our quest to understand humanโenvironment interactions: springs-rcc.org
#publications #envhum #envhist #RCCSprings #issue8
The ASN Conference 2025 talk are now online!
Feel free to share, promote, and explore them all. Our speakers were awesome! โจ
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If you would like to get involved in the ASN, check out the link in our profile!
Thank you so much for speaking Dev! We loved your blend of geoscience and creativity ๐โจ
Well that conference was absolutely incredible!
Thank you THANK YOU to everyone who presented and to everyone who came along to participate in the discussions!
What an amazing day โจ
๐ข Just a couple of days to go until the #Anthropocene #Sediment Network conference on Weds 18th June! โจ
Details: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...
Donโt forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
See you there! ๐๐
Flyer for the Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference, dated 18th June 2025, with the ASN logo at the top. The flyer text highlights how todayโs sediment routes through infrastructures, economies, and legislation, entangled with social, political, and ecological forces. It frames the ASN as a network exploring these dynamics through open, interdisciplinary dialogue. Stylised city and industrial skyline graphics appear at the bottom of the flyer.
๐ฃ Save the date!
18th June 2025 ๐ Online!
This free one-day event will explore #sediment through the lenses of #archeology, #art, #environmental #architecture, #history, #envsci, #geology, and many more!
Registration link here:
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#Anthropocene #Sediment #ASN2025
Cylindrical glass beads in bright shades of blue and turquoise with white horizontal stripes Photo: Archรคologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Wรผrttemberg
Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.
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Well that's even more fascinating!
Love the story of how Blue John got its nameโฆ they used amber to extract it, turning the edges of some blocks yellow & the mineral itself is blue. When trading it to France, it was called bleu jaune (blue yellow) stone, and the name returned to the mines in a more native sounding โBlue Johnโ. ๐ชจ
A box model diagram, showing a 3D "wedge" of landscape. On the model, each talk is represented. There is a city and a lignite mine in the background, with some horses on the far mountain. The meandering river is dammed, and has sandmining, subsidence, and anthropogenic alteration along the beach. A spit and lagoon, island, and reef represent the other fascinating coastal talks. In the foreground is a deep sea corer, and to the right of the image are mined tunnels and some surface spoil heaps. Each feature is labelled with the time at which the equivalent talk occurs, details of which may be found in the programme.
๐ASN 2025 #Conference registration is OPEN!๐
Sediment processes are no longer simply natural, they involve #economies, #cities, #engineered #environments, and much more!
Join us in expanding our understanding of #sediment system complexity: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...
#Anthropocene #ASN25
Just one week to go!
Submit your abstract for our free one day online conference!
From artists to scientists, if you work anywhere in the human-Earth interface, you will fit in here!
Deadline 23 May - anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...
#ASN25
One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g.
This is not our record.
The apse of the church showing the Portland stone masonry pick-marked by shrapnel damage
Close-up of some of the impact craters on the church walls
Another close-up of some of the impact craters on the church walls
Detail of two, small craters
WWII shrapnel damage on the church of St Clement Danes on The Strand which caused impact craters in Portland Stone #urbangeology #impacts
Bottom trawling devours vast numbers of sea creatures, many not killed for food but as bycatch. At the same time it scours the seabed, destroying the habitat young sea life needs to grow - leading to generational decline in population & biodiversity.
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2 weeks left to submit your abstract for our free one day online conference!
If you work on exploring the intersection of humans and Earth from landscapes to legacies, this is a community for you!
Deadline 23 May - anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...
#ASN25 #Anthropocene #Sediment #Interdisciplinary
Fossils of the Anthropocene.
