Anthropocene Sediment Network

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 🌍🌏🌎

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...

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! 😁

#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...

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

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...

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. He’s 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. www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

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 #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

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...

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📚

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

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!

Thank you so much for speaking Dev! We loved your blend of geoscience and creativity 😁✨

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 ✨

📢 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! 😁😁

📣 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

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. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

🌍ASN 2025 #Conference registration is OPEN!🌍 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.

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. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ocean-f...

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.

May the 4th be with you. A beachcombed Obi-Wan Kenobi for #StarWarsDay

You asked, we listened!📣 Abstract submission deadline for the ASN meeting is extended till 23rd May!🌞 We welcome anyone working at the interface between Earth and humanity🌍 To find out more / reach out and ask questions / submit something, info is at this link: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...

Leana Hosea’s film “Thirst for Justice”🎥 is critical context on the importance of #environmental monitoring & accountability re #waterpollution🧪 It speaks deeply to the entanglement of pollutants, health, and #EnvironmentalJustice⚖️ Watch here: vimeo.com/ondemand/thi... @leanahosea.bsky.social

A #Roman pottery colander found in Vindobona, present-day Vienna. Just like today, colanders were also an important utensil in #Roman kitchens - and the form hasn't really changed. Form follows function. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

Reminder! Abstract submission deadline for the #Anthropocene Sediment Network free 1 day online conference closes 6th May! 📝 From plastics to land use, #mining to #restoration, humans have reshaped Earths #sediment. Join us to explore 🌍 anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... #EGU25 #multidiscipliary ⚒️🧪

Beaver reintroduction is such a powerful reminder of how deeply entangled human and natural agency has become in the #Anthropocene. How will decisions like this be archived by Earth? Will we be able to tell the difference between the signals of humans, paws, and policies? 🦫🌍 #BeaverDay #Rewilding

📣Abstract Submission is open! Join us for the #Anthropocene Sediment Network’s free one day online #conference on the 18th June. We encourage submissions from all disciplines to consider what we have MADE and what we have MOVED on Earth. Details here: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... 🧪⚒️

Did you know that 2025 is the United Nations international year of glacier preservation? We recommend adding Dani Inkpen's book, Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming, to your reading list! niche-canada.org/2024/02/22/n... #envhist #books #glaciers