SANDCLUB
SandClub is a transdisciplinary journal and discussion club at McGill focusing on global sand resources and how they shape the world we are living in. On this page you can find an overview of past meetings and upcoming events.
We discuss both new and classic research papers related to aggregate resources, including (but not limited to) global sand scarcity, health and environmental impacts of sand mining activities and the future for urban development.
SandClub is an open forum held as a discussion club where everybody is welcome to participate. It is co-hosted by the Bendixen lab (Department of Geography) and the Iversen lab (Department of Biology). If you have questions related to the journal club, please reach out to Assistant Professor Lars Iversen.
We meet 4:00 pm on Wednesdays (see calendar for specific dates) at Burnside hall, Room 429.
Please use this sign up sheet for registering your attendance.
Next SandClub:
SandClub #20 - February 1, 2024
Previous events:
September 13th 2023:
Real time peer review of an academic research paper.
May 16th 2023:
Mapping the Canadian arctic deltas. Workathon data project
April 6th 2023:
Students working on sand will present their work (honors students and 'Independent Research Students'
March 16th 2023:
Real time peer review of an academic research paper.
February 23rd 2023:
Observing sediment dynamics using an EmRiver Stream Table
November 16th 2022:
Sand mining in Canada by Siobhan Mehrotra
November 3rd 2022:
Moser, S., & Avery, E. (2021). The multi-scalar politics of urban greening in Forest City, Malaysia. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 60, 127068. pdf
October 20th 2022:
Sengupta, D., Chen, R., & Meadows, M. E. (2018). Building beyond land: An overview of coastal land reclamation in 16 global megacities. Applied geography, 90, 229-238. pdf
October 6th 2022:
Nienhuis, J. H., Ashton, A. D., Edmonds, D. A., Hoitink, A. J. F., Kettner, A. J., Rowland, J. C., & Törnqvist, T. E. (2020). Global-scale human impact on delta morphology has led to net land area gain. Nature, 577(7791), 514-518. pdf
September 22th 2022:
Mensah, J. V. (1997). Causes and effects of coastal sand mining in Ghana. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 18(1), 69-88. pdf
Discuss conceptual figure for mining in Africa
September 8th 2022:
Cao, Z., & Masanet, E. (2022). Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis. Nature Sustainability, 1-2. pdf
Zhong, X., Deetman, S., Tukker, A., & Behrens, P. (2022). Increasing material efficiencies of buildings to address the global sand crisis. Nature Sustainability, 1-4. pdf
April 14th 2022: Torres et al. (2022). Unearthing the global impact of mining construction minerals on biodiversity. Biorxiv. pdf
March 31st 2022: UNEP 2022. Sand and sustainability : 10 Strategic Recommendations to Avert a Crisis. GRID-Geneva, United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, Switzerland pdf (suggested condensed reading: Executive summary and page 2-6)
March 17th 2022: Introduction to SandClub. (Background reading: Bendixen, M., Iversen, L. L. Et al. (2021): Sand, gravel, and UN Sustainable Development Goals: Conflicts, synergies, and pathways forward. One Earth, 4(8), 1095-1111. pdf)