Dr Catherine Russell
@seddyrocks.bsky.social
Fulbright Scholar, Anthropocene Sedimentologist, Founder of Anthropocene Sediment Network, I study rivers on Earth and Mars, the environment, and plastic & other pollutants.
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I am ✨BEYOND✨ excited to share my “Classification Framework for Assessing #Anthropogenic #Sedimentary Facies”!
It covers composition, bed- and grain-scale descriptors, structures, and nomenclature.
Now we can describe the developing #sedimentology of #Anthropocene #Earth 🌍
bit.ly/4hLbd2X 🧪 ⚒️
It covers composition, bed- and grain-scale descriptors, structures, and nomenclature.
Now we can describe the developing #sedimentology of #Anthropocene #Earth 🌍
bit.ly/4hLbd2X 🧪 ⚒️
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
If you're interested, do sign up to be a member, it's free! All details are on our website: anthrosednet.com
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!
If you’re interested in sediment and human impacts, now is a very good time to get involved! Membership is free!
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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
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
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
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!
@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!
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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
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
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
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!
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!
February 4, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
ooooooh @seddyrocks.bsky.social seds + dinos is just fun
January 19, 2026 at 6:45 AM
ooooooh @seddyrocks.bsky.social seds + dinos is just fun
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
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
Check it out here: anthrosednet.com
The Anthropocene Sediment Network
Empowering community-driven solutions on a changing planet
anthrosednet.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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
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.
July 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
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!
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!
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...
youtube.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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!
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!
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...
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...
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.
phys.org
July 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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...
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! ✨😁✨
📢 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! 😁😁
Details: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...
Don’t forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
See you there! 😁😁
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.
us06web.zoom.us
June 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
So excited about this! ✨😁✨
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today:
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
June 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today:
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
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
And don’t forget to register 😁
anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...
#ASN2025 #ASN25 #Anthropocene #Multidisciplinary
📣 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
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
June 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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
And don’t forget to register 😁
anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...
#ASN2025 #ASN25 #Anthropocene #Multidisciplinary
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
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...
theconversation.com/englands-wat...
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.
theconversation.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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...
theconversation.com/englands-wat...
I'm ✨SO EXCITED✨ for this!
All things that move on #Earth are #sediments, from sand to #plastic, and things that we #trade. If your work, research, or interests include #sediment in any way, this #conference is for you 😄
The #conference is free and online! See you there 🌍
#Anthropocene #ASN25
All things that move on #Earth are #sediments, from sand to #plastic, and things that we #trade. If your work, research, or interests include #sediment in any way, this #conference is for you 😄
The #conference is free and online! See you there 🌍
#Anthropocene #ASN25
🌍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
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
June 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'm ✨SO EXCITED✨ for this!
All things that move on #Earth are #sediments, from sand to #plastic, and things that we #trade. If your work, research, or interests include #sediment in any way, this #conference is for you 😄
The #conference is free and online! See you there 🌍
#Anthropocene #ASN25
All things that move on #Earth are #sediments, from sand to #plastic, and things that we #trade. If your work, research, or interests include #sediment in any way, this #conference is for you 😄
The #conference is free and online! See you there 🌍
#Anthropocene #ASN25
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
These are approx. 3 M m3 that collapsed from the Birch Glacier! 🧊🌊
The deposit spans 2.3 km of the Lötschental valley floor!
The deposit spans 2.3 km of the Lötschental valley floor!
May 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
These are approx. 3 M m3 that collapsed from the Birch Glacier! 🧊🌊
The deposit spans 2.3 km of the Lötschental valley floor!
The deposit spans 2.3 km of the Lötschental valley floor!
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
Preparedness planning for high-risk, high-impact, high-velocity events by govts is broader than geotech hazards - but seldom so dramatically needed, nor as metaphorical.
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social @jamesgdyke.info @rupertread.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social @jamesgdyke.info @rupertread.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Preparedness planning for high-risk, high-impact, high-velocity events by govts is broader than geotech hazards - but seldom so dramatically needed, nor as metaphorical.
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social @jamesgdyke.info @rupertread.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
@laurielaybourn.bsky.social @jamesgdyke.info @rupertread.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
At least not nervous!
May 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
At least not nervous!
Finally secured the dream Applied #Anthropocene #Sedimentology speaker to show students the backbone of the course 😅
She is more femur-liar with legacy #sediment than me 💀
She is more femur-liar with legacy #sediment than me 💀
May 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Finally secured the dream Applied #Anthropocene #Sedimentology speaker to show students the backbone of the course 😅
She is more femur-liar with legacy #sediment than me 💀
She is more femur-liar with legacy #sediment than me 💀
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
Just before landing in #Vienna, we hit the clouds and the sun behind us cast a perfect halo around the plane’s shadow!
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen from a plane! ✈️☁️
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen from a plane! ✈️☁️
May 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Just before landing in #Vienna, we hit the clouds and the sun behind us cast a perfect halo around the plane’s shadow!
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen from a plane! ✈️☁️
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen from a plane! ✈️☁️
Whilst flying to Vienna to teach the first “Applied #Anthropocene #Sedimentology” field course, I caught this amazing view of Woodhead #Reservoir! 🤩
#Rivers are feeding in, #water levels are low, so much #engineered terrain… you can see a LOT!
Easily one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken ✈️🌍
#Rivers are feeding in, #water levels are low, so much #engineered terrain… you can see a LOT!
Easily one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken ✈️🌍
May 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Whilst flying to Vienna to teach the first “Applied #Anthropocene #Sedimentology” field course, I caught this amazing view of Woodhead #Reservoir! 🤩
#Rivers are feeding in, #water levels are low, so much #engineered terrain… you can see a LOT!
Easily one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken ✈️🌍
#Rivers are feeding in, #water levels are low, so much #engineered terrain… you can see a LOT!
Easily one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken ✈️🌍
Hahaha 😂🤣
I actually didn’t bring a stripy shirt with me… 😲 That old shirt is on my sewing pile for a repair. Still me, promise 😂
I actually didn’t bring a stripy shirt with me… 😲 That old shirt is on my sewing pile for a repair. Still me, promise 😂
May 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hahaha 😂🤣
I actually didn’t bring a stripy shirt with me… 😲 That old shirt is on my sewing pile for a repair. Still me, promise 😂
I actually didn’t bring a stripy shirt with me… 😲 That old shirt is on my sewing pile for a repair. Still me, promise 😂
Boarding a giga metalliplasticlast fueled by ancient plankton! 🦠
See you soon #Vienna for some more #Anthropocene adventures 😊✈️
#manchesterairport #nextadventure #Wien
See you soon #Vienna for some more #Anthropocene adventures 😊✈️
#manchesterairport #nextadventure #Wien
May 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Boarding a giga metalliplasticlast fueled by ancient plankton! 🦠
See you soon #Vienna for some more #Anthropocene adventures 😊✈️
#manchesterairport #nextadventure #Wien
See you soon #Vienna for some more #Anthropocene adventures 😊✈️
#manchesterairport #nextadventure #Wien
Sounds lovely in total, but certainly managed! Except the wastewater bit, that’s gross.
May 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Sounds lovely in total, but certainly managed! Except the wastewater bit, that’s gross.
Fascinating how shifting baselines work!
May 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Fascinating how shifting baselines work!