Are you a scientist with an interest in plastic materials or sedimentary geoscience? Join our upcoming residential scientific meeting in Birmingham: ow.ly/9cIU50QkHZ9

We are delighted to launch our Decolonising Earth Science website! decolearthsci.com

The website explores the colonial legacy of Earth Science, how this manifests in the curriculum and provides open educational resources to address this.

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded the BSRG Roland Golding #Award for having made a noteworthy contribution to #sedimentology . 🏅📃

Thank you to my nominators, the award committee, and 10+ years of this #community . It’s an absolute honor to receive this ✨✨
#BSRG23

Feature | Sedimentation shifted
Rivers have never been as diverse as they are today, with human activities influencing their morphologies and contents. Dr Catherine Russell discusses a crucial new sub-branch of sedimentology: plastic-sediment interactions:
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Check out my #FeatureArticle on the #plasticpollution in #riverbed #sediment research I did with Roberto Fernández (he/él) 🇨🇷 Also on 🦋 and Prof. Dan Parsons @LboroUniversity 🌏💧🛰🌊⚽️🏏⛳🏈 in Geoscientist!

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It is an ✨honour✨ to have my #plasticpollution in #river beds research #featured in Geoscientist!

These magazines are how teenage me discovered that a #geoscience community existed, so seeing this is truly fantastic and surreal 🥹😊

Roberto Fernández (he/él) 🇨🇷 Also on 🦋 Prof. Dan Parsons @LboroUniversity 🌏💧🛰🌊⚽️🏏⛳🏈 #FeatureArticle

Big news: USGS scientists & partners have confirmed, with 2 new lines of evidence, that human footprints found in White Sands Nat'l Park show that people lived in North America 21-23,000 yrs ago—much earlier than previously thought!

More here: ow.ly/9peJ50PTBGN

Imgs: NPS

Woooah!! 🌎🌍🌏💃🕺

First full tectonic plate reconstruction of the last billion years – spanning nearly a quarter of the Earth’s existence. Research & timelapse by an international team of scientists including experts from the University of Adelaide

Anyone need a bluesky code? ☁️

Want to publish in #geomorphica ? This #factfriday we summarize all facts you need to be aware of. Full guidelines can be accessed on geomorphica.org. Want to review? Info is summarized next #factfriday !

#geomorphology #openaccess

MAJOR UPDATE: All planetary boundaries are assessed, and six are crossed.

For the first time ever, scientists have quantified all nine planetary boundaries. Six of them are already transgressed and we are increasing pressure on the others.

Read more: buff.ly/45Ps1QG

Libya has just experienced the deadliest flood of the 21st Century, with 7,000 confirmed dead.

In the city of Derna, home to 90,000 people, up to 20,000 are feared dead.

25% of the city is estimated to be destroyed after two dams collapsed due to extreme rainfall.

Imagery via…

A major, 21st century mining boom is happening in rivers across the global tropics. Our new paper in nature documents the mostly unreported rise of mining in 49 countries, in more than 400 districts along 173 rivers.

Read here and please share! rdcu.be/dkd9b

I'm excited to join California Academy of Sciences this evening for a #NightSchool on beds in the #environment ! I will be presenting on #river beds, Kara Prior on #geological beds, and Alison Young on #mussel beds!🪨🌍🐚

Here is the link if you would like to join us 7pm PT! youtube.com/watch?v=Am97uA…

📢 New paper alert! 🥳

Check out our paper on a TRUELY #worldclass example of a Late #Palaeozoic #glaciated landscape in #Chad #Africa !

The imagery and palaeo-reconstructions are a stunning testament to the possibilities of remote #fieldwork 🌍

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Trending in #Meteorology :
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1) Sea Level Rise along US Coasts & Storm Surge (Journal of Climate)

2) Snow‐shadow effect: Niigata (@IAP_AOSL)

3) Proactive Climate Interventions in Africa (@EarthsFutureEiC)

4) Plastic pollution & natural sand transport (@CommsEarth)

News | A University of Leicester expert has led a study which has found plastic pollution is changing the way riverbeds behave.

👉 le.ac.uk/news/2023/july…

#CitizensOfChange | Dr Catherine Russell Leicester Geography Geology at Leicester

Make sure to check this out! Led by Dr Catherine Russell. Many pandemic hours were spent looking at footage and discussing our observations. Energy and Environment Institute Prof. Dan Parsons @LboroUniversity 🌏💧🛰🌊⚽️🏏⛳🏈 Penn State Civil and Environmental Engineering Penn State WRE

The presence of plastic particles in riverbed sediments can alter depositional processes and dune morphology and lead to more sand being locally mobilised to the water column.

Dr Catherine Russell Roberto Fernández (he/él) 🇨🇷 Also on 🦋 Prof. Dan Parsons @LboroUniversity 🌏💧🛰🌊⚽️🏏⛳🏈

nature.com/articles/s4324…

Check out this superb thread by Dr Catherine Russell on our paper just out that explores the transport and deposition of microplastics in rivers

➡️nature.com/articles/s4324…