Dr Catherine Russell
@seddyrocks.bsky.social
Fulbright Scholar, Anthropocene Sedimentologist, Founder of Anthropocene Sediment Network, I study rivers on Earth and Mars, the environment, and plastic & other pollutants.
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Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur 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...
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
I'm so pleased to be part of this adventure! We look forward to recieving your submissions 😆
Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe’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! 😆
By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, this rover has found even older deltas buried beneath those seen on the surface from space
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero Crater
By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, this rover has found even older deltas buried beneath those seen on the surface from space
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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...
The lake has a "sunken ghost town" beneath its surface as a result of dam construction in the early and mid-1900s, which drowned the town by the rising waters. According to reports from the late 1800s, a "Wildman" creature was said to inhabit the lake's shoreline.
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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It was a lovely surprise this morning to see my work on #anthropogenic #sediments featured in the 100th edition of the #AAPG's Core Elements newsletter! Read it here: bit.ly/4soe5Id It is so cool to see these “non-traditional” ideas finding a place within long-established #geoscience communities😆⚒️
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!
I got a paper accepted today 😀 I can't explain how happy I am because we started the work in 2019 and now it's finally accepted... I can't believe it! Here's a sneak peak... more coming soon! 🥳
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!
Nearly 10 years ago? Man I feel old... ! From what I've read, the problem of plastic emissions from rivers into oceans has become worse. The issue seems a bit overwhelming, but I'm still thinking hopefully for solutions.
Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · 6mo agoLebreton'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...
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!
This one is an excellent read! Check out the ASN Library for more 😆📚
Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow 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📚
It was a super meeting and there is so much for the ASN community on the horizon! If you're interested, do sign up to be a member, it's free! All details are on our website: anthrosednet.com
Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · 6mo agoYesterday 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!
So pleased to finally be sharing the ASN clips from our 2025 conference with you all! We will be posting one a week now till the summer, so be sure to follow @anthrosednet.bsky.social for much more #multidisciplinary #sediment content! 🧪 #geology ⚒️ #sciencecommunication #scicomm
Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow 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!
ooooooh @seddyrocks.bsky.social seds + dinos is just fun
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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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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It’s never a good idea to mess with something before we fully understand it. 🥔🥔 Potato-sized metal nodules in the deep sea might sound like easy pickings, but studies increasingly show ocean floor recovery may never happen. So why are we still talking about it? phys.org/news/2025-07...
Restoring sea floor after mining may not be possible, researchers warn
Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible to restore damaged seafloor ecosystems—or how long it would take.
phys.org
So excited about this! ✨😁✨
Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Just a couple of days to go until the #Anthropocene #Sediment Network conference on Weds 18th June! ✨ Details: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... Don’t forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there! 😁😁
Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
It’s our first conference so please help us to spread the word! And don’t forget to register 😁 anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... #ASN2025 #ASN25 #Anthropocene #Multidisciplinary
Anthropocene Sediment Network@anthrosednet.bsky.social · last yr.📣 Save the date! 18th June 2025 🌍 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: 🔗 anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... #Anthropocene #Sediment #ASN2025
It's going to take more than a couple of new reservoirs to prevent the UK's coming water crisis, writes hydrologist @hancloke.bsky.social - we need to rethink how we build homes & communities to avoid a future of alternating flood & drought: theconversation.com/englands-wat...
England’s water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs – here’s what will help
The changing climate and growing population means England is facing a water crisis.
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![Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihzjireqyhyztitogqi7khxntfzmhzmyqdfvycvl2qcf5yik4z5zm)