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...#Genova's#urbanisation#FluvialFriday #UrbanGeom

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...

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

Calling river-lovers everywhere: today the River Rescue Kit is released by River Action. It's a properly brilliant resource: * training on water testing * legal rights * campaigning advice * fundraising guides * much more Get stuck in; turn passion into action. Pass it on! kit.riveractionuk.com

✨Wow✨ This article is peaceful, immersive, and deeply reflective about our changing landscape. It challenges our self-centric view of time and future uncertainty, inviting us to step back and consider what it means to live within Earth’s ongoing story🌍 The piece is also beautifully read as audio🎧

A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

Did you know the Vikings made swords from swamp water? Groundwater from a spring carries dissolved iron; when this water reaches a bog, acidity and certain bacteria can turn it into iron oxide Sifting this out, one gets ore to make "bog iron", the main source of iron in Scandinavia until ~1300 CE

While the local socioeconomic and ecological co-benefits of agroforestry are known, the consequences for deforestation at landscape scale are unclear. Now Hong Chen Teo et al. show that across forests in Southeast Asia, agroforestry has led to a net reduction of deforestation. shorturl.at/ZJUDE

Cyclone #Alfred 🌀 caused severe beach erosion in #Queensland, shifting vast amounts of sand offshore and exposing soft #sediment cliffs. 🌊 This dramatic change can feel shocking, but it’s actually part of a fascinating and ongoing sediment cycle… 📸 Images: 4ussiestyle (IG)

The edges of this #Lego brick have abraded into micro and nano plastics 🧱🔬 Over time, even sturdy #plastic breaks down into ever-smaller pieces. 🟦🔷🔹🌀….. Collecting larger #plasticpollution early helps reduce this process! #microplastic #cleanup

Plastic recycling: A panacea or environmental pollution problem www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Plastic #recycling #environmental #plastucpollution

A new study showing how “safer” industrial chemicals don’t always stay that way🧪 Once in the environment, flame retardants can break down into more toxic compounds! These will accumulate in sediments, posing long-term risks. #ForeverChemicals don’t just persist—they transform. #envsci #pollution

🌱 Restoring vegetation is a type of land use change we don’t talk about enough! It doesn’t just green the landscape—it improves soil retention, reduces landscape denudation, and enhances air quality. 🌍 The Anthropocene isn’t just a story of loss. 💚 #GenerationRestoration

Dams may seem like permanent features of #Anthropocene landscapes, but many are threatened by #sediment accumulation⏳ This video from Practical Engineering explores the sediment-related #engineering challenges of keeping #reservoirs functional! 📽️ Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiUO...

A strikingly curated arrangement—assembled by time and tide 🌊 Unlike their organic counterparts, these plastic flowers may far outlast real blooms, preserving not just a record of plant morphology, but also a snapshot of human imagination and design 💐 #Anthropocene #MarineDebris #FutureFossil 🧪⚒️

A beautiful composite technofossil! 😍 The bottom waters of Lake Constance are up to 250 m deep, so it’s calm enough to preserve layers and artifacts in remarkable condition! To describe this object as a sediment, it is a composite rod of wood, stone, and tar, with a moderate-high absolute density.