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.

📣HAPPENING TODAY!📣 Join us to learn about "Sand Mining in India"!

The event is free and online, register here: lnkd.in/eKiCRq7M

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This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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

Poster titled “Plastic Fate Across Environments and Sedimentary Systems” with the Elsevier logo and the heading “Call for Contributions: Anthropocene Special Issue.” Authors listed: Maciej Liro, Anna Zielonka, Astrid Delorme, Catherine Russell, and Luca Gallitelli. The poster explains a Special Issue in the journal Anthropocene focused on an interdisciplinary approach (hydrodynamics, geochemistry, environmental science) to assess “sedimentary traps” for macro- and microplastics. Bullet points invite submissions on plastic transport and accumulation, fragmentation from macro to micro/nano, the sedimentological record, and solutions for manual/automated plastic removal. A box includes a ScienceDirect link for full details and submission, plus a contact email maciej.liro@gmail.com . Bottom section shows a photo of plastic debris on sand, and an ASN logo with the line “A project of the Anthropocene Sediment Network” and the website anthrosednet.com.

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...

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! 😆

Plastic debris forms: Rock analogues emerging from marine pollution Continuous input of plastic litter in ocean and coastal environments achieved alarming levels that are exposing new settings in natural systems. While…

Plastic is beginning to form rock-like #materials!

Fernanda Avelar Santos & team document #plastic “rock” types on an outcrop on #Trindade Island. Synthetic rocks shaped by humans as depositional and post-depositional agents!

Find more in our #Sedimentarium!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More than 10,000 SpaceX Starlink spacecraft now orbit Earth—and the satellite surge shows no sign of stopping Once unfathomable, the milestone of a single company having 10,000 satellites operating overhead signals that the era of mega constellations is here to stay

Once unfathomable, the milestone of a single company having 10,000 satellites operating overhead signals that the era of mega constellations is here to stay

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...

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 In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasing…

"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...

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!

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!

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!

River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans - Nature Communications Rivers provide a major pathway for ocean plastic waste, but effective mitigation is dependent on a quantification of active sources. Here, the authors present a global model of riverine plastic inputs...

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!

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Sav… Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critica…

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📚

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.

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!

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! ✨

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 ✨

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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