Catherine Russell is a Fulbright-Lloyds Visiting Scholar at the University of New Orleans, with honorary affiliations at the School of Geography, Geology, and the Environment at the University of Leicester, and the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Louisiana State University. Her research on sedimentology and the Anthropocene works to understand the natural behaviors and deposits of rivers, and how humans have affected them through engineering and management. Additionally, she is seeking to understand how plastic behaves in the environment. The aim of her work is to better understand the long-term impact of human intervention on Earth’s surface processes. Her PhD research was in fluvial sedimentology; her technical expertise is in the development of innovative multi-disciplinary approaches (geology, geomorphology, and remote sensing), for analysis of the composition and architecture of meandering rivers.