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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

#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!

Text reads "Abstract Submission for our 2026 Conference is OPEN!" and there is a gold outlined text bubble which says "Call for Abstracts" and the text and background are shades of sage green.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📣HAPPENING TODAY!📣 Join us to learn about "Sand Mining in India"! The event is free and online, register here: lnkd.in/eKiCRq7M

Flyer for an Anthropocene Sediment Network online event titled “Sand Mining in India.” The event takes place Wednesday, 22 April 2026, from 7:30–9:30 pm IST (3:00–5:00 pm London time). The programme includes talks by Priyank Pravin Patel, Suraj Gupta, and Siddharth Agarwal, introduced by Prantika Bhowmick, followed by discussion. The flyer includes speaker photos, images of sand mining landscapes and excavators, and a QR code for free registration.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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...

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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! 😆

Illustrated cross-section “landscape” graphic showing a wide range of Anthropocene sediment settings, with many labels marked as times (e.g., 09:45, 10:30, 12:45, 15:30, 17:30, which refer to the schedule that we had on the day). The scene includes a city/industrial area and port on the left, housing and a quarry/extraction area toward the centre, a hill with grazing animals, engineered/managed slopes, and an industrial plant with smokestack and machinery. The subsurface shows layered ground with tunnels/voids and channel-like features, suggesting buried infrastructure, excavation, and sediment movement. Overall, the image conveys the variety of environments and processes covered by ASN conference talks.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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...

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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 🌍🌏🌎

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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!

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 Hatzenbühler, Cari Johnson. Bottom row: Penny Tristram, and Mohammed Mofizur Rahman. Participants are seated indoors in home or office settings and smiling toward their cameras.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📣 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

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🌍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

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.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Update! ⛱️ The beach is being artificially replenished! While natural processes will help restore it over time, this intervention gives it a much-needed boost. A reminder that beaches are dynamic landscapes, constantly shaped by both nature and human action. 🌊🏖️ 📸 Image: life_dive_travel (IG)

The beach with a fan of deposited sand emerging from the beach road access. The sand is being deposited by trucks and over the top of the deposit are trackways from those trucks.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sediment is always in motion. The sand hasn’t disappeared, it’s just moved to sandbars offshore. Over time, waves and currents will naturally replenish the #beaches, restoring the #coastline. 🌊 This process is normal, but because we are used to the crisp lines on #maps, it can feel unsettling.

A cartoon from the conversation article linked in the next post on this thread. The cartoon demonstrates beach erosion during a storm and shows storm water level aversion disc and an arrow showing where that sand is transported further oceans to form a sandbar. The original beach level is shown in the offshore bar is shown and overtime. It’s implicated that sediment in this bar will read distribute information to reach the original beach level again.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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)

An image of the coastline at Queensland there are people on the beach and the buildings are perhaps 20 to 30 m from the sea. The beach is a gentle gradient. Some of the buildings are high-rise and some of them are low lying and the ocean is exhibiting gentle waves.

This image is post cyclone and there is now an escarpment about 3 to 5 m high and the beach is missing. The assortment is made of sediment and there is organic debris along the bottom of the cliff. The buildings are now far closer to the ocean.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

From pollution to infrastructure, from river deltas to demolition waste, sediment records our impact on the planet. That’s why we need broader discussions, bigger collaborations, and new ways of thinking.

A metal shopping cart in a river surrounded by sediment debris and plastic bags. The metal cart has slowed the water flow so that there is a higher density of materials around the shopping cart because of its presence.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sediment isn’t just rock, soil, or sand—it’s what we wear, what you are reading this on, and the materials that shape our landscapes, cities, and historical records. But today, it doesn’t just move according to physics; it moves because of everything we do.

Bags of pebbles one bag is being held open so that the image shows that these are bags of sediment for sale.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sediment connects all of us 🌍 The ASN brings together perspectives from the physical and humanities disciplines to develop educational material and #research solutions to understand the dynamic life of #anthropogenic #sediment. ⚒️🧪

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