Chris Hackney
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at Newcastle University. Vice chair of the British Society for Geomorphology. Researching sand mining, river morophodynamics, microplastics and deltas ⛏️🏞️
- Reposted by Chris HackneyThis study from 'Biological Invasions' shows invasive non-native plants indirectly destabilise riverbanks by suppressing native vegetation, increasing bare ground, and reducing winter shear strength by around 30%. bit.ly/4qJilB3 @zarahpattison.bsky.social @drchrishackney.bsky.social #bioinvasions
- Reposted by Chris Hackney🚨 4 days left to enter 🚨 submit your photos and drawings of geomorphological features by midnight on Friday tagging us and the tag #BSGAC25 to win up to £100 🥇 last years winners and runners up for inspiration ⬇️
- Reposted by Chris HackneyMy third PhD chapter has just been published, we assessed the impact of Himalayan balsam invasion on riverbank stability. A massive thanks to @zarahpattison.bsky.social @drchrishackney.bsky.social @dralanlaw.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Chris HackneyA study co-led by our experts highlights how sand mining is endangering the normal functioning of the Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, potentially affecting 23 million people. Read more here. ⬇ bit.ly/47V2Eza #WeAreNCL
- Reposted by Chris HackneyImportant work here from @drchrishackney.bsky.social and colleagues -
- A study co-led by our experts highlights how sand mining is endangering the normal functioning of the Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, potentially affecting 23 million people. Read more here. ⬇ bit.ly/47V2Eza #WeAreNCL
- Reposted by Chris HackneyThe Junior Deputy Chair (JDC) assists the Chair and Senior Deputy Chair with the day to day running of the society. The JDC is an elected one-year role, with the incumbent assuming the role of Senior Deputy Chair in the subsequent year, and then the role of Chair in the year after.
- Reposted by Chris HackneyOutreach Vice Chair is responsible for coordinating the Outreach Committee’s activities, including promoting geomorphology to the public and encouraging the teaching of geomorphology at schools, colleges, universities, and to the wider public. The position is held for a three-year term.
- Reposted by Chris Hackney⏰ We are still looking to fill the positions of Junior Deputy Chair and Outreach Vice Chair on our Executive Committee starting in September. Please get in touch if you are interested in applying! Brief descriptions for the roles can be found below ⬇️
- China rare earths: The BBC visits the world's mining capital for the metals - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
- Reposted by Chris Hackney📢June Issue of Area📢 This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods. Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
- Reposted by Chris HackneyWe also announce this year's photo competition winners: congratulations @thapasara.bsky.social, Stephen Tooth. @drchrishackney.bsky.social 🥇🥈🥉
- Reposted by Chris HackneyBased on work in Vietnam, we explore how place-based, intergenerational storytelling can drive real momentum and sustain engagement. @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social @bedforms.bsky.social @drchrishackney.bsky.social @lisa-jones7.bsky.social, Thu Vo, Hue Le, Anh Nguyen, Alison Lloyd Williams
- 🚨New paper alert 🚨 Ever wondered how sand extraction may be altering the bed of sandy rivers? How these changes influence flow and sediment transport? Well wonder no more! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
- This means they provide more friction and resistance to the flows of water in the river, and change the dynamics of suspended sediment flowing over them.
- Test match special back on whilst marking - must be summer!
- Reposted by Chris HackneyNew Special Section in Area! 'Rivers as Borders', edited by Rebekka Kanesu, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social & Eva McGrath, features 6 #OpenAccess papers on river-borders from the Yarmouk and Salween to the Moselle and Torridge. Read all papers here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #geo
- Booming factory growth in Vietnam is requiring more sand to be imported from its neighbours www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
- Reposted by Chris HackneyAs the world constructs ever more buildings, we're destabilising rivers, lakes, deltas & loughs to gather the sand we need for all that concrete. What harm are we causing? How can we reduce that harm? Can we use alternative materials in concrete or reduce the amount of concrete we use?
- Reposted by Chris Hackney'She mines sand at the Mwamphanzi River, even though she knows this makes the flooding worse. "We don't have any other choice. Like today, I left early in the morning leaving children without even porridge"'. The women mining sand to make our concrete: www.context.news/socioeconomi...
- Reposted by Chris HackneyA beautiful morning setting up for today’s Young Coastal Scientists’ & Engineers’ Conference here at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Dove Marine Lab! We’re delighted to welcome 30 early career researchers and practitioners to our little corner of paradise!! @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social
- Reposted by Chris HackneyInterested in the role of sediment transport processes on increasing #flooding? Our new preprint that systematically explores the role of #rainfall on amplifying flood hazard is out! doi.org/10.21203/rs.... @floodskinner.games @drchrishackney.bsky.social Matt Perks & @bedforms.bsky.social
- Reposted by Chris HackneyTeams information shown on the advert & on our website www.geomorphology.org.uk/2025/02/19/i... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @rgs-ibgschools.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social @aockelford.bsky.social @sgrieve.bsky.social @drchrishackney.bsky.social @geomorphicjosh.bsky.social
- Reposted by Chris HackneyNext week we are hosting two talks to celebrate International Geomorphology week. Dr Lynda Yorke will discuss inclusive fieldwork in the geosciences on Wednesday. On Friday, Gwyn Nelson from the Wales Coastal Monitoring Centre will present a national approach to communicating coastal change.
- And so...after 13 years on short term contracts in academia, I can finally enjoy an open ended contract. Time to change the email signatures and social media handles #academia #science @newcastleuni.bsky.social
- Congratulations to @jahardwick.bsky.social on his first #PhD paper out today 🎉🥂 James has reviewed the impact of non-native plant species on river bank erosion rates 🏞️🪻🌳🪴🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- We find previous research has focused on a limited number of non-native plant species across a restricted range of habitats types, with dependency on topographic change and generally short study duration obscuring potential causal links or feedback cycles
- First day of our joint IISER Bhopal - @newcastleuni.bsky.social workshop on geospatial techniques for monitoring sand mining. Looking forward to welcoming students and practitioners for the week #earthscience #remotesensing #rivers #india #sandmining
- Reposted by Chris Hackney📸BSG ART COMPETITION 2024🎨 🚨FIVE days🚨 Scroll through your field photos or get out your paint brush #geomorphology Prizes: £100 🥇 £50 🥈🥉 Deadline: 10th Jan T&Cs: geomorphology.org.uk/2024/11/26/n... Make sure you tag us, #BSGAC24 and add a caption!
- This was a fun, if scary (as a single author piece) at times, experience. Thank @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and the rest of the special issue editors for pushing beyond by comfort zone to think about this from a more human geography perspective
- Chris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social's contribution considers how attention to 'more than water' (e.g., #sand and #sediment) can refocusing transboundary river-border governance rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- New #microplastics paper alert. Led by the awesome Dr Freija Mendrik, from her PhD work, we show that 86 % of microplastics are transported below the water surface. For representative samples, sample at 0.5-0.6 of the depth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boom www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
- Reposted by Chris HackneyPhD opp: Interested in the combined impact of sand extraction and invasive species?!! Check this out: Invasions and extractions in Lough Neagh and their role in water quality deterioration with @drchrishackney.bsky.social! #invasivespecies #freshwater #PhD iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
- I made a starter pack of those voices speaking to all things geomorph/glacio/geo/earth sci. Follow them if it's of interest. Will update as the site grows #earthsci #geomorphology #physgeog #science #glaciology go.bsky.app/ME4GNao
- For all those interested in #geomorphology @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social has joined Bluesky! Give them a follow to keep up with everything we're doing, webinars, grants and new exciting science 🌍⛰️🏞️
- We could cross this yesterday evening!! It was ankle deep. Shows what a couple of hour's rain can do on a saturated ephemeral river!
- Here's the evening before looking upstream
- Having some fun in community workshops on sand harvesting and water availability in Kenya. Quite a difference from the #rivers I'm used too
- Most, if not all high grade quartz used to make silicon chips comes from Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The whole area has been devistaed by Hurricane Helene. Potential here for significant impacts to global high tech production and industry!! www.wired.com/story/book-e...
- I don't know what the resilience/capacity is like in the supply chains to absorb any shock, but damage to infrastructure and supply networks from Helene could disrupt supply for some time
- Thinking of building a small (2.5 m x 2.5m) delta basin for teaching delta growth, morphology and strat (plus maybe some research). Any one got any tips or recommendations for good kit (hoppers, sensors etc.)?
- Beach sand being mined and sold for profit in Cornwall #sandmining #dredging www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09...
- Back out on the Mekong. This time with the #MRC training their national teams in the use of ADCPs and sediment sampling techniques #rivers #mekong #cambodia
- This was a new experience...a first single author article. I argue for a recentering of transboundary river basin frameworks to put #sediment on equal balance to #water, with the example of the #Mekong #earthscience 🌎⛏️🌊🏞️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- First day on Texel for #NewcastleUni Phys Geog field course and there's a beach renourishment program using 1.3 MT of sand going on #sand #geography #beachmanagement
- Perfecting some #microplastics separation protocols for upcoming student field courses #FieldLabs #STEM #teaching
