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Chris Hackney

@drchrishackney.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Newcastle University. Vice chair of the British Society for Geomorphology. Researching sand mining, river morophodynamics, microplastics and deltas ⛏️🏞️

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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This means they provide more friction and resistance to the flows of water in the river, and change the dynamics of suspended sediment flowing over them.
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨New paper alert 🚨 Ever wondered how sand extraction may be altering the bed of sandy rivers? How these changes influence flow and sediment transport? Well wonder no more! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And so...after 13 years on short term contracts in academia, I can finally enjoy an open ended contract. Time to change the email signatures and social media handles #academia #science @newcastleuni.bsky.social
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
First day of our joint IISER Bhopal - @newcastleuni.bsky.social workshop on geospatial techniques for monitoring sand mining. Looking forward to welcoming students and practitioners for the week #earthscience #remotesensing #rivers #india #sandmining
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Decline of a giant....Briksdalsbreen (or what remains) in July 2024 #BSGAC24
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New #microplastics paper alert. Led by the awesome Dr Freija Mendrik, from her PhD work, we show that 86 % of microplastics are transported below the water surface. For representative samples, sample at 0.5-0.6 of the depth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I made a starter pack of those voices speaking to all things geomorph/glacio/geo/earth sci. Follow them if it's of interest. Will update as the site grows #earthsci #geomorphology #physgeog #science #glaciology go.bsky.app/ME4GNao
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
For all those interested in #geomorphology @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social has joined Bluesky! Give them a follow to keep up with everything we're doing, webinars, grants and new exciting science 🌍⛰️🏞️
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Here's the evening before looking upstream
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We could cross this yesterday evening!! It was ankle deep. Shows what a couple of hour's rain can do on a saturated ephemeral river!
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Having some fun in community workshops on sand harvesting and water availability in Kenya. Quite a difference from the #rivers I'm used too
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Back out on the Mekong. This time with the #MRC training their national teams in the use of ADCPs and sediment sampling techniques #rivers #mekong #cambodia
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
First day on Texel for #NewcastleUni Phys Geog field course and there's a beach renourishment program using 1.3 MT of sand going on #sand #geography #beachmanagement
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Perfecting some #microplastics separation protocols for upcoming student field courses #FieldLabs #STEM #teaching
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Cracking views from the top of Whernside and Ingleborough today. Never wetter!
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Opened BlueSky and my feed was full of cat and dog pictures, so...here's Ginny dreaming of being Tom Daley diving off the 10 m board
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Northern lights lit up the flight home from #AGU23 last week. Amazing display for about an hour of the flight over northern Canada
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
A little sneak peak of next week's #AGU23 poster I'll be presenting #SandRisk #SandMining ⛏️ 🌎 🛰️
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Took the 4yr up the top of Roseberry Topping this morning. Stormed up it...it's amazing how much energy they have when they want to ⛰️👪🚶
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Been trying to calculate how exposed global sand resources are to development pressures. Always nice when your ideas produce nice visuals, even if you're not sure what they mean yet! #SandMining #ExtractiveIndustries #datavis #EarthEngine #ArcGISPro #EarthSci ⚒️
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Word cloud of some of my research outputs, pretty good idea of what I'm interested in 😬
Cloud of words in various colors and sizes. Some of the largest words include river mekong sand sediment flow bank climate delta using red mining mapping change changes flux model erosion role natural large remote sensing vietnam
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Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
I'm Chris. I use high-resolution bathymetry and flow data, as well as satellite imagery to unravel the impacts of sand mining on river bank erosion and channel dynamics, particularly in SE Asia. I'm based at Newcastle Uni in the UK.
Multibeam sonar map showing bathymetry of the Mekong River, CambodiaA sand dredger in operation in the Mekong at Phnom Penh
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