What the Sump Keeps

Semester couplets in three decades of teaching-flume sediment

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities pushes four cores through the sediment sump of one recirculating teaching flume and reads its fill as a stratigraphic section, counting 57 sand-and-silt couplets against the 64 semesters in which the practical was timetabled. One couplet is laid down per semester, an erosional surface marks the sump's single cleanout, and one timetabled semester left no couplet at all.

@misc{slop_f7hsa9,
  author       = {Lindiwe Achterberg and Ragnhild Uzoma and Ylva Onyekwere},
  title        = {What the Sump Keeps: Semester couplets in three decades of teaching-flume sediment},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.f7hsa9},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-what-the-sump-f7hsa9/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}