Community
Interdisciplinary projects and invited talks.
The Territorial Agency is exhibiting their 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale called “How Heavy is a City?”. In the Exhibit FLUXES at the MAAT Central Tejo (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) from 1st October - 8th December 2025.
I worked with the team to make a video based on research I’ve led called “Let’s Call it Sediment”, which plays on one of the hanging screens. Watch it HERE!
Mirage is an outdoor sculpture created by artist Katie Paterson and architectural studio Zeller & Moye, located in Apple Park, California. It is made from cylinders of pure cast glass, containing sand collected from deserts across the Earth.
I worked with Katie Paterson and her amazing team offering sedimentological advice on the sediment collection locations and strategies.
Katie Paterson’s Requiem exhibit at Ingleby Gallery tells a beautiful story of time and consequence of anthropogenic activity. The dust spans from pre-solar system dust 5 billion years old, right up to the modern age. Layer by layer, each one of the dusts was poured into an urn to create a condensed stratigraphy of Earth’s archive.
I provided sediment from the Mississippi River and sedimentological discussions.
A Multidisciplinary Team in a Changing World
The Anthropocene Sediment Network connects a multidisciplinary community focused on research and education. We seek to understand how human-made and natural sediments are sourced, transported, distributed, and redistributed, as well as their final destinations. By "sediment," we refer to anything that can move on Earth, from sand on a beach to the device you are reading this on. Our network encourages collaboration and dialogue, promoting advances in research across disciplines to tackle the unique dynamics of our changing planet.
We are supported by UNESCO IGCP 732 “LANGUAGE of the Anthropocene” (Lessons in anthropogenic impact: a knowledge network of geological signals to unite and assess global evidence of the Anthropocene), which will lead the development of the multidisciplinary network through exploring the global scale evidence of the Anthropocene.
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Invited Talks
August 2025 – Geological Society of London, Thames Regional Group, online “The Limits of Similarity Navigating the Challenge of Interpreting Past, Present, and Future Anthropogenic Sediments”.
February 2025 – British Geological Survey, in person, “Anthropocene Sedimentology: Strategies and Methods to Improve Contemporary Environmental Assessment”.
December 2024 – British Sedimentology Research Group, Leeds, in person, “Anthropocene Sedimentary Environments”.
October 2024 – American Geophysical Union (AGU), Earth and Planetary Science focus group (EPSP) Connects, virtual, “Sedimentological Insights into Improving Contemporary Environmental Assessment”.
May 2024 – University of Vienna, virtual, “Anthropogenic Fluvial Systems and Strata”.
May 2024 – British Society of Geomorphology, virtual, “Plastic (et al.,) as sediment and what to do about it’”.
March 2024 – Royal Society Theo Murphy Meeting - Sedimentology of Plastics: state of the art and future directions, “Plastic (et al.,) as a Sediment”.
February 2024 – Quantum Photonics Club, virtual, “Microplastics increase riverbed sediment movement & erosion”.
November 2023 - Bablake School, visit and talks (Age 14-18) “Beginning a Career in Earth Science”.
August 2023 - California Academy of Sciences “Night School”, virtual, “Plastic as a Sediment in Riverbed Environments”
June 2023 – Brown University “Reconnecting Cause and Effect for Landscape Change in the Anthropocene”.
June 2023 - Tulane University “The Mississippi River, the Anthropocene, and plastic pollution experiments”.
April 2023 - Fulbright Enrichment Seminar on Human Health, Chicago “Landscapes, Pollution, & Health”.
April 2023 - Louisiana Chapter of the Coasts, Ocean, Ports & Rivers Institute “The geology and pollution of the Mississippi River in the Anthropocene”.
April 2022 – University of Vienna, virtual, “Anthropocene Rivers”.
March 2022 – Online Webinar for the “Source to Sink” series “Anthropocene Rivers”.
March 2022 – Imperial College London “Our Impact on Planet Earth’s Sedimentology in the Anthropocene”.
October 2021 – Minnesota, USA, virtual, River Semester “Mississippi River Sediment”.
July 2021 - Riva del Garda, Italy, virtual, International Conference of Fluvial Sedimentology “Anthropocene Rivers”.
May 2021 - British Sedimentary Research Group postgraduate online workshop “Networking Online”.
December 2020 - Girls into Geoscience virtual outreach event (Age 13-14) “Rivers in the Anthropocene”.
November 2020 - Climate + Rivers virtual outreach event (Age 16-18) “Anthropocene and the Mississippi”.
February 2020 - University of Cambridge “Accurately interpreting river morphology from the rocks”.
November 2019 - Anthropocene River Campus at Tulane University “The four-dimensional Mississippi”.
February 2019 - Louisiana State University “The use of a multi-disciplinary approach to predict the architecture and lithological heterogeneity of point-bar deposits”.
January 2019 - Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society “Rivers in the Rock Record: from Utah to Wales”.
