Sebastian Wetterich

• Periglacial landscape evolution
• Quaternary permafrost–climate interaction
• Stable isotopes in permafrost ground ice
• Paleoecology of the terrestrial Arctic

Selected publications

Full publication record at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9234-1192

Circum-Arctic

Strauss et al. (2021). Circum-arctic map of the Yedoma permafrost domain. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 758360. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.758360

Zhang et al. (2022). Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands. Nature Communications 13, 4959. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32711-4

Canadian Arctic

Fritz et al. (2022). A new local meteoric water line for Inuvik (NT, Canada). Earth System Science Data 14, 57–63. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-57-2022

Wetterich et al. (2023). Ground-ice origin and age on Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk), Yukon, Canada. Quaternary Science Advances 10, 100077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100077

Greenland

Ribeiro et al. (2021). Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change. Nature Communications 12, 4475. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24742-0

Wetterich et al. (2019). Stable isotope signatures of Holocene syngenetic permafrost trace seabird presence in the Thule District (NW Greenland). Biogeosciences 16, 4261–4275. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4261-2019

Siberia

Haugk et al. (2022). Organic matter characteristics of a rapidly eroding permafrost cliff in NE Siberia (Lena Delta, Laptev Sea region). Biogeosciences 19, 2079–2094. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2079-2022

Jongejans et al. (2022). Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods. The Cryosphere 16, 3601–3617. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3601-2022

Kizyakov et al. (2023). Landforms and degradation pattern of the Batagay thaw slump, Northeastern Siberia. Geomorphology 420, 108501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108501

Murton et al. (2022). A multi-method dating study of ancient permafrost, Batagay megaslump, East Siberia. Quaternary Research 105, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2021.27

Murton et al. (in press). Batagay Megaslump: a review of the permafrost deposits, Quaternary environmental history, and recent development. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2194

Wetterich et al. (2020). The cryostratigraphy of the Yedoma cliff of Sobo-Sise Island (Lena Delta) reveals permafrost dynamics in the central Laptev Sea coastal region during the last 52 kyr. The Cryosphere 14, 4525–4551. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4525-2020

Wetterich et al. (2021). Paleo-ecology of the Yedoma Ice Complex on Sobo-Sise Island (Eastern Lena Delta). Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 681511. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.681511

Wetterich et al. (2021). Northeast Siberian permafrost ice-wedge stable isotopes depict pronounced Last Glacial Maximum winter cooling. Geophysical Research Letters 48, e2020GL092087. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092087

Svalbard

Demidov et al. (2022). Distribution of pingos on Svalbard. Geomorphology 412, 108326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108326