#Anthropocene sedimentologist @FulbrightPrgrm-@LloydsofLondon Scholar; Founder @AnthroSedNet; #Rivers #Mars #Plastic #Environment; Views my own
Leicester, UK
Joined November 2011
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I'm ✨INCREDIBLY✨ excited to share our new paper with you!!
📢"#PlasticPollution in riverbeds fundamentally affects natural sand transport processes"
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
#FlumeFriday #River @CommsEarth @nature @IceMeanders @bedform
Here are our key findings: 🧵1/5
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
This #EarthDay's theme is Plant v Plastics.
Take a read about Leicester's Dr Catherine Russell, who led a study that found plastic pollution is changing the way riverbeds behave.
👉nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
#CitizensOfChange | @SeddyRocks @penn_state @LeicesterGeog @GeologyLeics
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Are you a scientist with an interest in plastic materials or sedimentary geoscience? Join our upcoming residential scientific meeting in Birmingham: ow.ly/9cIU50QkHZ9
Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded the @brit_seds 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
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
Feature | Sedimentation shifted
Rivers have never been as diverse as they are today, with human activities influencing their morphologies and contents. @SeddyRocks discusses a crucial new sub-branch of sedimentology: plastic-sediment interactions:
geoscientist.online/sections…
Check out my #FeatureArticle on the #plasticpollution in #riverbed #sediment research I did with @IceMeanders and @bedform in @geoscientistmag!
geoscientist.online/sections…
It is an ✨honour✨ to have my #plasticpollution in #river beds research #featured in @geoscientistmag!
These magazines are how teenage me discovered that a #geoscience community existed, so seeing this is truly fantastic and surreal 🥹😊
@IceMeanders @bedform #FeatureArticle
OUT NOW! The winter 2023 issue of Geoscientist focusses on our community’s efforts to reverse the decline in geoscience student enrolment. We also highlight a new, but crucial, branch of sedimentology: plastic-sediment interactions:
geoscientist.online/wp-conte…
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
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
ALT Human footprints at White Sands National Park. Image credit: NPS
ALT USGS scientist Jeff Pigati examines the layers of sediment while collecting pollen to help establish the age of the footprints. Image credit: NPS
ALT Scientists working in and near a trench at White Sands National Park, a sandy landscape with distant mountains in the background. Photo credit: NPS
ALT USGS scientists Kathleen Springer and Jeff Pigati work at the White Sands site, lying on the ground with their faces close to the ground. Photo credit: NPS
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
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
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
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
ALT A summary of the topics Diamond Open Access, submission types, triple anonymous review, manuscript preprints, co-author, code and data availability and abstract. For further information, please visit geomorphica.org.
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
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
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
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 @Maxar
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
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
ALT A drone image shows a landscape of mining pits filled with water in Peru.
I'm excited to join @calacademy this evening for a #NightSchool on beds in the #environment! I will be presenting on #river beds, @kerprior 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=Am97uAPB…
📢 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/ar…
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
Trending in #Meteorology:
ooir.org/index.php?field=Phy…
1) Sea Level Rise along US Coasts & Storm Surge (@AMSJCLi)
2) Snow‐shadow effect: Niigata (@IAP_AOSL)
3) Proactive Climate Interventions in Africa (@EarthsFutureEiC)
4) Plastic pollution & natural sand transport (@CommsEarth)
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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/cath…
#CitizensOfChange | @SeddyRocks @LeicesterGeog @GeologyLeics
Dr Catherine Russell retweeted
Make sure to check this out! Led by @SeddyRocks. Many pandemic hours were spent looking at footage and discussing our observations. @EEIatHull @bedform @PennStateCEE @PennStateWRE
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.
@SeddyRocks @IceMeanders @bedform
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
