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Dr Catherine Russell
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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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Dr Catherine Russell @seddyrocks.bsky.social · Jan 24
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 🧪 ⚒️
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
anthrosednet.bsky.social
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!
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
seddyrocks.bsky.social
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...
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
seddyrocks.bsky.social
So excited about this! ✨😁✨
June 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
profbobhowarth.bsky.social
Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today:
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
June 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
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
anthrosednet.bsky.social Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · Jun 9
📣 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 12:44 PM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
leanahosea.bsky.social
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...
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
seddyrocks.bsky.social
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
anthrosednet.bsky.social Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · Jun 5
🌍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 2:25 PM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
subfossilguy.bsky.social
These are approx. 3 M m3 that collapsed from the Birch Glacier! 🧊🌊

The deposit spans 2.3 km of the Lötschental valley floor!
May 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
phoebebarnard.bsky.social
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...
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
seddyrocks.bsky.social
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 💀
A projected screen with the words “applied anthropocene sedimentology” as a title slide. The text is black on white in a green and gold box, there is a green banner along the top of the slide and the logo for the Anthropocene sediment network in the bottom right corner. There is a model skeleton standing to the left positioned as if presenting the lecture
May 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets - Communications Earth & Environment
Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level ...
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
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! ✈️☁️
View from an airplane window showing the wing against a backdrop of white cloud. On the clouds below, the faint shadow of the plane is surrounded by a circular rainbow-like halo (a “glory”), visible through the frosted ice crystals on the window.
May 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
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 ✈️🌍
Aerial photograph of Woodhead Reservoir in the Peak District, England. The image shows a dark blue body of water with sinuous river channels feeding in. The pale sediment band around the edge, and the length of the fluvial plain, indicates that the reservoir level is lower than normal. The surrounding terrain is patchwork fields and moorland.
May 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
Boarding a giga metalliplasticlast fueled by ancient plankton! 🦠

See you soon #Vienna for some more #Anthropocene adventures 😊✈️

#manchesterairport #nextadventure #Wien
Catherine and her husband in front of a Lauda plane. The day is sunny and the plane is white with red capital text saying LAUDA and red design. Picture is at Manchester Airport
May 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
A beautiful landscape of the Roaches, but look closely and you’ll see how much of it is us.

Fields, fertilizers, a reservoir in the foreground, an island with deterrents for nesting birds, and more... What did it look like before us? And how will it be interpreted after?
#Anthropocene
View across a calm reservoir to a rocky outcrop and green hillside, with patchwork fields and scattered trees. In the foreground, a small stony island with bird deterrent wires and nets on it.
May 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
geophysichick.bsky.social
Fossils of the Anthropocene.
May 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
I spotted this patterned ground in a carpark by a #reservoir.
It’s called #concrete grass paver 🌱
Designed to stabilise soil, reduce runoff, and support weight while letting water through.
🚗 🌱🌧️
^^^^^^^^
A future layer of the #Anthropocene!

#AnthropoceneSediment #GeoDesign #GroundEngineering
A grid of concrete grass pavers in a car park near a reservoir. The pavers form a regular pattern, with tufts of grass growing between the concrete cells. The surface appears both structured and semi-natural, showing signs of wear from foot or vehicle traffic.
May 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
anthrosednet.bsky.social
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...
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…
anthrosednet.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
I watched this recently and can confirm it’s brilliant.

It ends by saying that half the world will be under water stress by 2025… I had to double take. That’s now! 😳

It’s a powerful reminder of how urgent it is to protect the #water we do have access to.

#WaterJustice #EnvironmentalMonitoring
April 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
New paper! 📣
#Rivers don’t just carry #microplastics, they create them too 🟦🔹…

We explored “Rivers as #microplastic factories” incorporating #geomorphology and #sedimentology!

Beyond reducing input, we need targeted action to reduce microplastic generation 📉

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
A schematic diagram illustrating the existing zonation of the fluvial system (A)–(C), and the proposed implications of this zonation for the occurrence and pathways of plastic fragmentation and the long-term storage of secondary microplastics (D)–(F).
April 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
The top 8 posts in my feed today are about #ForeverChemicals. Every one tested so far is toxic in some way. ☠️
We’re still building our awareness and understanding of them, so tracking, research, and long-term management are more important than ever. 🧪
April 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
anthrosednet.bsky.social
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
biojlinnsoc.bsky.social Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · Apr 8
Do you give a damn about beavers? Then don't iGNAW this thread! Nature's engineers, beavers were hunted to extinction in the UK, but a landmark decision to allow their #reintroduction has paved the way for their return! But how will this work? A thread 🌍🧪🧵🦫 (1/4)
#BeaverDay
April 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Reposted by Dr Catherine Russell
irishrainforest.bsky.social
This is great news. But we need to be clear that if energy comes at the cost of natural ecosystems, there's nothing 'clean' about it.

Perfect examples of this are burning old growth native forests as 'renewable biomass', or most river-based hydro power.

Emissions reduction MUST respect nature.
April 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
This is so exciting! 😆

It’s going to be a SUPER opportunity to present and discuss what moves on Earth and why… in a multidisciplinary space 🌍

Please share with anyone who you think would be interested ✨

#envhist #geoarcheology #archeology #arts #culture #science #geology #anthropocene
anthrosednet.bsky.social Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · Apr 7
📣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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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…
anthrosednet.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
seddyrocks.bsky.social
✨Good news!✨

Australia’s seen a 40% drop in #plasticpollution on major beaches!🏖️

They’ve pledged to phase out unnecessary plastics by 2025 & reuse or recycle all plastic waste by 2040♻️

It’s PROOF that action works! Let’s keep going!
#BeachCleanUp #EnviroNews

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Australia sees nearly 40% decline in plastic pollution along major city coastlines
Country has pledged to phase out unnecessary plastics by 2025 and recycle or reuse all its plastic waste by 2040
www.independent.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM