Event flyer for the Anthropocene Sediment Network (ASN) titled “Sand Mining in India” with the ASN logo at the top. Subtitle: “An Anthropocene Sediment Network Focussed Event.” Date and time: Wednesday, 22nd April, 2026, 7:30–9:30 pm (Indian Standard Time) and 3:00–5:00 pm (London Time). Banner reads: “Attendance is free and online.” Programme schedule lists: Introduction (Prantika Bhowmick, Presidency University, Kolkata, India); “Converting rivers to pools: anthropogenic signatures of riverbed sand mining in India” (Priyank Pravin Patel, Presidency University, Kolkata, India); “Sights, sounds and sediments: from shifting rivers to shifty interactions in sand mining sites” (Suraj Gupta, Presidency University, Kolkata, India); Break; “Leveraging India Sand Watch: an online, open repository for evidence-based sediment protection in India” (Siddharth Agarwal, Veditum India Foundation, Kolkata, India); and Q & A and Discussions. A “Sign up HERE!” button points to a QR code. On the right are four speaker headshots. Background photos show river sand mining scenes with excavators, sand piles, water, and a person standing near a mined sandbar. Bottom text: “Empowering community-driven solutions on a changing planet” and the website https://anthrosednet.com/

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

I'm so pleased to be part of this adventure!

We look forward to recieving your submissions 😆

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.

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! 😆

Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]

Landscape Features

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero Crater By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, this rover has found even older deltas buried beneath those seen on the surface from space

By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, this rover has found even older deltas buried beneath those seen on the surface from space

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!

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.

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...

The lake has a "sunken ghost town" beneath its surface as a result of dam construction in the early and mid-1900s, which drowned the town by the rising waters. According to reports from the late 1800s, a "Wildman" creature was said to inhabit the lake's shoreline.

2026 Conference The Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2026 27th May 2026 The 2026 ASN Conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and creative thinkers from across many fields, with sediment …

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!

Figure 6. from Russell 2025. Photographs demonstrating anthropogenic sedimentological deposits in a range of environments. The names of each deposit are: A – Combined Anthroglomerate, B – Structureless Organoplastic, C – Baffled Silicimetallic, D – Structureless Organoplastic, E – Stratified Anthroglomerate, and F – Uni-directional Siliciplastic.

It was a lovely surprise this morning to see my work on #anthropogenic #sediments featured in the 100th edition of the #AAPG's Core Elements newsletter!

Read it here: bit.ly/4soe5Id

It is so cool to see these “non-traditional” ideas finding a place within long-established #geoscience communities😆⚒️

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!

Multi-panel scientific diagram illustrating the evolution and internal structure of a point-bar deposit in the False River meander bend. Panel (a) shows a heterogeneity prediction map with flow direction, channel plugs, apex migration, and sample locations marked. Panel (b) shows deposits formed during different growth stages, colour-coded to indicate processes such as extension, expansion, downstream accretion, and rotation. Panels (c–e) depict nine sequential phases of meander evolution, showing changing channel shapes, sediment heterogeneity patterns, and growth types. A legend identifies heterogeneity types, growth processes, erosion zones, and decreasing sand proportion.

I got a paper accepted today 😀 I can't explain how happy I am because we started the work in 2019 and now it's finally accepted... I can't believe it!

Here's a sneak peak... more coming soon! 🥳

Effects of urbanization on river morphology in a Mediterranean coastal city (Genova, Italy) - Andrea Mandarino, Pierluigi Brandolini, Martino Terrone, Francesco Faccini, 2024 From the geomorphological point of view, urbanization changes fluvial systems more drastically than any other single human activity. Its impact on rivers is of ...

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

Flyer for the Anthropocene Sediment Network (ASN) with ASN logo at the top and the title “The Anthropocene Sediment Network.” Tagline: “Empowering community-driven solutions on a changing planet.” Text explains ASN supports collaborations advancing cross-disciplinary communication and research to understand Earth’s Anthropocene sediments. A banner reads: “Membership is free; all events are free and online.” A QR code is shown. On the right, an “Upcoming Events” list includes Sand Mining in India – Wednesday 22nd April and ASN Conference 2026 – Wednesday 27th May with abstract submission open 4th March–6th May, plus the note “Many more events and opportunities are coming up!” Bottom right button says “Sign up HERE!” with the website https://anthrosednet.com/ . Design uses green and gold tones with a stylised skyline and landscape along the bottom.

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!

Nearly 10 years ago? Man I feel old... !

From what I've read, the problem of plastic emissions from rivers into oceans has become worse. The issue seems a bit overwhelming, but I'm still thinking hopefully for solutions.

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!

This one is an excellent read! Check out the ASN Library for more 😆📚

It was a super meeting and there is so much for the ASN community on the horizon!

If you're interested, do sign up to be a member, it's free! All details are on our website: anthrosednet.com

So pleased to finally be sharing the ASN clips from our 2025 conference with you all!

We will be posting one a week now till the summer, so be sure to follow @anthrosednet.bsky.social for much more #multidisciplinary #sediment content!

🧪 #geology ⚒️ #sciencecommunication #scicomm

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!

ooooooh @seddyrocks.bsky.social seds + dinos is just fun

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

I saw some research in the past couple of years talking about how they may produce oxygen and things in the deep ocean. The problem is that we don’t know, it’s not just about kicking up sediment, it’s that we don’t understand the ecosystem consequences of removing the nodules.

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!

Restoring sea floor after mining may not be possible, researchers warn Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible to restore damaged seafloor ecosystems—or how long it would take.

It’s never a good idea to mess with something before we fully understand it. 🥔🥔

Potato-sized metal nodules in the deep sea might sound like easy pickings, but studies increasingly show ocean floor recovery may never happen.

So why are we still talking about it?

phys.org/news/2025-07...

So excited about this! ✨😁✨

Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today:
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

It’s our first conference so please help us to spread the word!

And don’t forget to register 😁
anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...

#ASN2025 #ASN25 #Anthropocene #Multidisciplinary

England’s water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs – here’s what will help The changing climate and growing population means England is facing a water crisis.

It's going to take more than a couple of new reservoirs to prevent the UK's coming water crisis, writes hydrologist @hancloke.bsky.social - we need to rethink how we build homes & communities to avoid a future of alternating flood & drought:

theconversation.com/englands-wat...