Georg Schäfer
@kansananthropocene.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher @MPI of Geoanthropology
Unearthing the Kansan Anthropocene at https://hidinginplainssight.org/
Member of the Anthropocene Commons
Unearthing the Kansan Anthropocene at https://hidinginplainssight.org/
Member of the Anthropocene Commons
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nice coincidence that this review is in same issue as articles by Eun-Joo Ahn & Beatriz Martinez-Rius. come see Eun-Joo & me + @kansananthropocene.bsky.social & Gaetano di Tommaso @aseh.bsky.social & check out Beatriz's article on oil & continental drift here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An open secret: Marine geosciences, offshore oil exploration and industrial secrecy in the Mediterranean seafloor
The oil industry has crucially contributed to advance the geological knowledge of marine regions by employing technological, logistical, and economic resources unattainable in academic research. Ho...
www.tandfonline.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
nice coincidence that this review is in same issue as articles by Eun-Joo Ahn & Beatriz Martinez-Rius. come see Eun-Joo & me + @kansananthropocene.bsky.social & Gaetano di Tommaso @aseh.bsky.social & check out Beatriz's article on oil & continental drift here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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ANTHROPOCENE HISTORY - Journal Launch October 2026
Contributions on Anthropocene History for the inaugural and subsequent issues are now welcome.
More information here: www.kth.se/anthropocene...
Contributions on Anthropocene History for the inaugural and subsequent issues are now welcome.
More information here: www.kth.se/anthropocene...
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ANTHROPOCENE HISTORY - Journal Launch October 2026
Contributions on Anthropocene History for the inaugural and subsequent issues are now welcome.
More information here: www.kth.se/anthropocene...
Contributions on Anthropocene History for the inaugural and subsequent issues are now welcome.
More information here: www.kth.se/anthropocene...
Reposted by Georg Schäfer
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
thoughtful documentary featuring my colleague Paul Stock on a regeneration experiment in Western Kansas. In a county that has already lost 80% of its Ogallala water, they try to find through grazing pathways to ecological and social recovery without mining the aquifer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOP...
The Wallace Project: Year Four (Director's Cut)
YouTube video by The Provenance Co.
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
thoughtful documentary featuring my colleague Paul Stock on a regeneration experiment in Western Kansas. In a county that has already lost 80% of its Ogallala water, they try to find through grazing pathways to ecological and social recovery without mining the aquifer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOP...
Fieldwork in Kansas this month took me from archives to feedlots to the Governor’s Conference on the Future of Water. I went looking for different layers of the same story: how post-Dust Bowl Kansas remade itself after several extreme events – and how those choices still shape its water crisis today
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Fieldwork in Kansas this month took me from archives to feedlots to the Governor’s Conference on the Future of Water. I went looking for different layers of the same story: how post-Dust Bowl Kansas remade itself after several extreme events – and how those choices still shape its water crisis today
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INVITATION TO THE NEXT SESSION
Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of... Iron
🗓️ Nov 17
⏰ 8pm-9.30pm (CET)
We are looking forward to continuing the conversations!
🔗 Please register via: eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of... Iron
🗓️ Nov 17
⏰ 8pm-9.30pm (CET)
We are looking forward to continuing the conversations!
🔗 Please register via: eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Mining Conversations | The Futurepasts of ... Iron. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Mining Conversations is a monthly online discussion series dedicated to how knowledge practices on local and planetary scales shape the energy landscapes we see today, whether influenced by past or pr...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
INVITATION TO THE NEXT SESSION
Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of... Iron
🗓️ Nov 17
⏰ 8pm-9.30pm (CET)
We are looking forward to continuing the conversations!
🔗 Please register via: eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of... Iron
🗓️ Nov 17
⏰ 8pm-9.30pm (CET)
We are looking forward to continuing the conversations!
🔗 Please register via: eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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BOOK LAUNCH: ENERGY’S HISTORY
𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺’𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯?
🗓️ 3. Nov 2025
⏰ 16.00 – 17.30
📍 Berlin, Germany
👉 Join us at 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 to celebrate this book launch, followed by a talk by the historian 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻-𝗕𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘇.
🔗 Please register: spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺’𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯?
🗓️ 3. Nov 2025
⏰ 16.00 – 17.30
📍 Berlin, Germany
👉 Join us at 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 to celebrate this book launch, followed by a talk by the historian 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻-𝗕𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘇.
🔗 Please register: spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
Energy’s History: From colonialism, to anti-colonialism, and back again?
spore-initiative.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
BOOK LAUNCH: ENERGY’S HISTORY
𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺’𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯?
🗓️ 3. Nov 2025
⏰ 16.00 – 17.30
📍 Berlin, Germany
👉 Join us at 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 to celebrate this book launch, followed by a talk by the historian 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻-𝗕𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘇.
🔗 Please register: spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺’𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯?
🗓️ 3. Nov 2025
⏰ 16.00 – 17.30
📍 Berlin, Germany
👉 Join us at 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 to celebrate this book launch, followed by a talk by the historian 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻-𝗕𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘇.
🔗 Please register: spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
Happy to see hidinginplainssight.org — my WebGIS project with Brian Holmes — included in Anthropocene Campus Chicago at Watershed Art & Ecology.
Thanks to Carlina Rossée for spotting it — wish I could be there in person.
#Anthropocene #Kansas #WebGIS
Thanks to Carlina Rossée for spotting it — wish I could be there in person.
#Anthropocene #Kansas #WebGIS
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Happy to see hidinginplainssight.org — my WebGIS project with Brian Holmes — included in Anthropocene Campus Chicago at Watershed Art & Ecology.
Thanks to Carlina Rossée for spotting it — wish I could be there in person.
#Anthropocene #Kansas #WebGIS
Thanks to Carlina Rossée for spotting it — wish I could be there in person.
#Anthropocene #Kansas #WebGIS
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ANTHROPOCENE CONSEQUENCES
Oct 23–26 · Chicago
A four-day gathering of artists, scholars, and organizers exploring what it means to live within — and respond to — the consequences of the Anthropocene.
Hosted by UIC with Narrow Bridge Arts Club + Watershed Art & Ecology.
ac-chicago.org
Oct 23–26 · Chicago
A four-day gathering of artists, scholars, and organizers exploring what it means to live within — and respond to — the consequences of the Anthropocene.
Hosted by UIC with Narrow Bridge Arts Club + Watershed Art & Ecology.
ac-chicago.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
ANTHROPOCENE CONSEQUENCES
Oct 23–26 · Chicago
A four-day gathering of artists, scholars, and organizers exploring what it means to live within — and respond to — the consequences of the Anthropocene.
Hosted by UIC with Narrow Bridge Arts Club + Watershed Art & Ecology.
ac-chicago.org
Oct 23–26 · Chicago
A four-day gathering of artists, scholars, and organizers exploring what it means to live within — and respond to — the consequences of the Anthropocene.
Hosted by UIC with Narrow Bridge Arts Club + Watershed Art & Ecology.
ac-chicago.org
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Mining Conversations returns Sept 22, 8–9:30pm (CEST):
The Futurepasts of Shale Oil & Gas. A space for dialogue across extraction & energy landscapes.
Speakers: Steininger, Grant, Halkort & Jack. Online, free.
🔗 eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The Futurepasts of Shale Oil & Gas. A space for dialogue across extraction & energy landscapes.
Speakers: Steininger, Grant, Halkort & Jack. Online, free.
🔗 eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Mining Conversations | The Futurepasts of ... Shale Oil and Gas. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Mining Conversations is a monthly online discussion series dedicated to how knowledge practices on local and planetary scales shape the energy landscapes we see today, whether influenced by past or pr...
eu02web.zoom.us
September 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Mining Conversations returns Sept 22, 8–9:30pm (CEST):
The Futurepasts of Shale Oil & Gas. A space for dialogue across extraction & energy landscapes.
Speakers: Steininger, Grant, Halkort & Jack. Online, free.
🔗 eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The Futurepasts of Shale Oil & Gas. A space for dialogue across extraction & energy landscapes.
Speakers: Steininger, Grant, Halkort & Jack. Online, free.
🔗 eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Also available in English as "Geology of the Present": spectorbooks.com/book/geology...
August 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Also available in English as "Geology of the Present": spectorbooks.com/book/geology...
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GEOLOGIE DER GEGENWART (DNA17)
Herausgegeben von Katrin Klingan/Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck/Georg Schäfer
Herausgegeben von Katrin Klingan/Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck/Georg Schäfer
April 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
GEOLOGIE DER GEGENWART (DNA17)
Herausgegeben von Katrin Klingan/Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck/Georg Schäfer
Herausgegeben von Katrin Klingan/Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck/Georg Schäfer
Reposted by Georg Schäfer
The Anthropocenen Commons Network hereby joins the bluesky community. If you are curious to learn more about who we are, check out our website: www.anthropocene-commons.org
Home – Anthropocene Commons
The Anthropocene Commons (AC) is a network of researchers, educators, activists, artists and scientists from all over the world working on the Anthropocene, the current time period in which human acti...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The Anthropocenen Commons Network hereby joins the bluesky community. If you are curious to learn more about who we are, check out our website: www.anthropocene-commons.org
Calen Moore’s reporting is another reminder of @npr.org system's value—clear, historically grounded stories that help build a public for complex problems shorturl.at/eZS6E Screenshot from my website: the sandy Arkansas River bed bordered by groundwater-irrigated alfalfa for a nearby feedlot.
August 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Calen Moore’s reporting is another reminder of @npr.org system's value—clear, historically grounded stories that help build a public for complex problems shorturl.at/eZS6E Screenshot from my website: the sandy Arkansas River bed bordered by groundwater-irrigated alfalfa for a nearby feedlot.