Anthropocene Sediment Network
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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 🌏 ✨Find out more: http://anthrosednet.com
Three days in Oslo at a writing workshop for Geoscience Disrupted: A Guide to Anthropocene Sediment — rethinking what sediment means in the Anthropocene, across disciplines from anthropology to geology. Thanks to Alessandro, Catherine and Alejandro for organising. @anthrosednet.bsky.social
Our conference program is now live! It is happening on Wednesday 27th May! Find more information here: anthrosednet.com/2026-confere... Please register here to join us (free & online) for what promises to be a fantastic day: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
2026 Conference
The Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2026 Wednesday 27th May 202610:00 – 16:30 London Time The 2026 ASN Conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and creative thinker…
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We have extended abstract submissions to Friday 8th May but won't be able to extend beyond that! We look forward to learning about your work! 😁
Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · 3mo ago#Showcase your work at our #conference! Deadline for a talk outline is tomorrow! Link below: forms.gle/QsvNVoBjH12W... All disciplines are welcome, it's a complex topic that deserves complex conversations!
#Showcase your work at our #conference! Deadline for a talk outline is tomorrow! Link below: forms.gle/QsvNVoBjH12W... All disciplines are welcome, it's a complex topic that deserves complex conversations!
📣HAPPENING TODAY!📣 Join us to learn about "Sand Mining in India"! The event is free and online, register here: lnkd.in/eKiCRq7M
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Don't forget to register for our upcoming event on #SandMining in #India! The event is #FreeAndOnline so that it is #accessible to all. Feel free to share this flyer widely, it promises to be an excellent event! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #anthropocene #sediment #collaboration
We’re happy to announce a new Special Issue in Anthropocene: “Plastic Fate Across Environments and Sedimentary Systems”! We are looking for cutting-edge contributions on how plastics move, transform, fragment, and accumulate across Earth surface systems 🧪⚒️🌍🔎 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Look how wide the field of #Anthropocene #Sedimentology already is! We gather to discuss and consider how sediment moves, changes, and records our human-shaped world... Abstract submission is open for our free and online 2026 Conference! anthrosednet.com/2026-confere... Join us! 😆
Plastic is beginning to form rock-like #materials! Fernanda Avelar Santos & team document #plastic “rock” types on an outcrop on #Trindade Island. Synthetic rocks shaped by humans as depositional and post-depositional agents! Find more in our #Sedimentarium! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Plastic debris forms: Rock analogues emerging from marine pollution
Continuous input of plastic litter in ocean and coastal environments achieved alarming levels that are exposing new settings in natural systems. While…
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Once unfathomable, the milestone of a single company having 10,000 satellites operating overhead signals that the era of mega constellations is here to stay
More than 10,000 SpaceX Starlink spacecraft now orbit Earth—and the satellite surge shows no sign of stopping
Once unfathomable, the milestone of a single company having 10,000 satellites operating overhead signals that the era of mega constellations is here to stay
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What happens when plastics and grass meet on the beach? Patricia Corcoran explores how #plastic debris can get incorporated into natural “tumbleweed”-like agglomerations. Field studies from the #GreatLakes and #Sardinia show what affects their ability to gather debris! Full video on our website!
We are hosting our first focussed event! Come and join us for free and online for what promises to be a fascinating deep dive into #sandmining in #India! #sediment #anthropocene #geopolitics #geology #environment #geomorphology Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"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. www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining
In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasing…
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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!
2026 Conference
The Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2026 27th May 2026 The 2026 ASN Conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and creative thinkers from across many fields, with sediment …
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How does urban waste become #coastline? Rachel Rozanski explores #Toronto’s 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! 🏘️ 🏰 🏭 In Mandarino et al.’s 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
Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy) - Andrea Mandarino, Pierluigi Brandolini, Martino Terrone, Francesco Faccini, 2024
From the geomorphological point of view, urbanization changes fluvial systems more drastically than any other single human activity. Its impact on rivers is of ...
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Thank you for being here! 👋😆 If you’d like to help more people find the #Anthropocene Sediment #Network, feel free to share this #flyer in your channels and communities! 📜 The ASN is a free, open #community for applied, multidisciplinary work on #sediment movement in a #human-shaped world 🌍🌏🌎
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 “River #plastic emissions to the world’s oceans” 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 📚 www.nature.com/articles/nco...
River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans - Nature Communications
Rivers provide a major pathway for ocean plastic waste, but effective mitigation is dependent on a quantification of active sources. Here, the authors present a global model of riverine plastic inputs...
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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?🔎 In #Timefulness, Marcia Bjornerud invites us to think like geologists and feel #Earth’s deep rhythms to consider how a longer sense of time may reshape today’s decisions... www.goodreads.com/book/show/39... One of many books in our #Sedimentarium📚
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Sav…
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critica…
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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 you’re 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. We’re 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
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We are excited to share that the newest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 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 human–environment 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! ✨ youtube.com/playlist?lis... If you would like to get involved in the ASN, check out the link in our profile!
The Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2025 - YouTube
Today's sediment doesn't just route through natural systems, but also engineered channels, infrastructures, economies, and legislation. We have entangled the...
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Thank you so much for speaking Dev! We loved your blend of geoscience and creativity 😁✨
Dev Harlan@devharlan.bsky.social · last yr.Very interesting conference by the Anthropocene Sediment Network last month, thank you @anthrosednet.bsky.social for the opportunity to participate! Recordings can now be seen here: youtu.be/2m2h0sjiaX8?...