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Anthropocene Sediment Network
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What if everything that moves on #Earth is #sediment?
Our #network empowers #multidisciplinary #collaboration and dialogue, promoting advances to tackle the unique dynamics of our changing planet 🌏
✨Find out more: http://anthrosednet.com
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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!
February 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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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!
February 4, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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📣 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
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.
June 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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🌍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
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.
June 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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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)
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.
March 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Sediment is always in motion. The sand hasn’t disappeared, it’s just moved to sandbars offshore. Over time, waves and currents will naturally replenish the #beaches, restoring the #coastline.

🌊 This process is normal, but because we are used to the crisp lines on #maps, it can feel unsettling.
A cartoon from the conversation article linked in the next post on this thread. The cartoon demonstrates beach erosion during a storm and shows storm water level aversion disc and an arrow showing where that sand is transported further oceans to form a sandbar. The original beach level is shown in the offshore bar is shown and overtime. It’s implicated that sediment in this bar will read distribute information to reach the original beach level again.
March 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Cyclone #Alfred 🌀 caused severe beach erosion in #Queensland, shifting vast amounts of sand offshore and exposing soft #sediment cliffs. 🌊
This dramatic change can feel shocking, but it’s actually part of a fascinating and ongoing sediment cycle…

📸 Images: 4ussiestyle (IG)
An image of the coastline at Queensland there are people on the beach and the buildings are perhaps 20 to 30 m from the sea. The beach is a gentle gradient. Some of the buildings are high-rise and some of them are low lying and the ocean is exhibiting gentle waves. This image is post cyclone and there is now an escarpment about 3 to 5 m high and the beach is missing. The assortment is made of sediment and there is organic debris along the bottom of the cliff. The buildings are now far closer to the ocean.
March 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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From pollution to infrastructure, from river deltas to demolition waste, sediment records our impact on the planet. That’s why we need broader discussions, bigger collaborations, and new ways of thinking.
A metal shopping cart in a river surrounded by sediment debris and plastic bags. The metal cart has slowed the water flow so that there is a higher density of materials around the shopping cart because of its presence.
February 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Sediment isn’t just rock, soil, or sand—it’s what we wear, what you are reading this on, and the materials that shape our landscapes, cities, and historical records. But today, it doesn’t just move according to physics; it moves because of everything we do.
Bags of pebbles one bag is being held open so that the image shows that these are bags of sediment for sale.
February 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Sediment connects all of us 🌍

The ASN brings together perspectives from the physical and humanities disciplines to develop educational material and #research solutions to understand the dynamic life of #anthropogenic #sediment.

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The logo for the Anthropocene Sediment Network. It is in greens and gold and has a city in the top half and a natural looking river in the bottom half. On the river, there are two canoeists.
February 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM