Anthropocene Sediment Network

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!

The Anthropocene Sediment Network Empowering community-driven solutions on a changing planet

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

Poster to advertise new issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review, showing an Arctic glacier. Image by Flora Mary Bartlett.

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 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...

The ASN Conference 2025 talk are now online!

Feel free to share, promote, and explore them all. Our speakers were awesome! ✨

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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 ✨

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

📢 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! 😁😁

Flyer for the Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference, dated 18th June 2025, with the ASN logo at the top. The flyer text highlights how today’s sediment routes through infrastructures, economies, and legislation, entangled with social, political, and ecological forces. It frames the ASN as a network exploring these dynamics through open, interdisciplinary dialogue. Stylised city and industrial skyline graphics appear at the bottom of the flyer.

📣 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

Cylindrical glass beads in bright shades of blue and turquoise with white horizontal stripes Photo: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg

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

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Well that's even more fascinating!

Love the story of how Blue John got its name… they used amber to extract it, turning the edges of some blocks yellow & the mineral itself is blue. When trading it to France, it was called bleu jaune (blue yellow) stone, and the name returned to the mines in a more native sounding “Blue John”. 🪨

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.

🌍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

2025 Conference ASN Conference 2025 18th June 2025 Join us in exploring materials and their motion on Earth, through an interdisciplinary lens. We encourage submissions from archaeology, environmental science, art…

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.

The apse of the church showing the Portland stone masonry pick-marked by shrapnel damage

Close-up of some of the impact craters on the church walls

Another close-up of some of the impact craters on the church walls

Detail of two, small craters

WWII shrapnel damage on the church of St Clement Danes on The Strand which caused impact craters in Portland Stone #urbangeology #impacts

Ocean footage of bottom-trawling depicts "ecological vandalism" - Oceanographic Heartbreaking footage of bottom-trawling features in new cinema release, Ocean with David Attenborough to open the world's eyes to its horrors

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...

2025 Conference ASN Conference 2025 18th June 2025 Join us in exploring materials and their motion on Earth, through an interdisciplinary lens. We encourage submissions from archaeology, environmental science, art…

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.

Beachcombed Obi-Wan Kenobi on black background

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

2025 Conference ASN Conference 2025 18th June 2025 Join us in exploring materials and their motion on Earth, through an interdisciplinary lens. We encourage submissions from archaeology, environmental science, art…

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...

The hard work behind the film is evident, its powerful stuff. Thank you for making it! We are all connected through sediment, and highlights the complexity of the challenges we are faced with today! Drinking water shouldn’t be “toxic waste”, that much is clear.

Our pleasure, it’s a fantastic film 🎥

Watch Thirst For Justice Online | Vimeo On Demand — For Home Use Only — Armed only with facts and their illnesses, extraordinary citizens take on industry and government, risking arrest to protect…

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 dome-shaped clay vessel with a handle, displayed in a museum case. The upper part is perforated with evenly spaced rows of small holes.

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

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🏺 #archaeology

2025 Conference ASN Conference 2025 18th June 2025 Join us in exploring materials and their motion on Earth, through an interdisciplinary lens. We encourage submissions from archaeology, environmental science, art…

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

2025 Conference ASN Conference 2025 18th June 2025 Join us in exploring materials and their motion on Earth, through an interdisciplinary lens. We encourage submissions from archaeology, environmental science, art…

📣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...
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New Book - Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time.

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

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.

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)