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

Kim et al. (2025). East Siberian ice wedges recording the polar jet stream recording dust transport variability during the Late Pleistocene. Nature Communications 16, 9751. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65772-2

Schirrmeister et al. (2025). Yedoma: Late Pleistocene ice-rich syngenetic permafrost of Beringia. In: Elias SA (ed.) Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences, 3^rd edition, vol. 5. UK: Elsevier, pp. 296-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99931-1.00223-3

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

East Siberia, Batagay megaslump

Kizyakov et al. (2024). Characterizing Batagay megaslump topography dynamics and matter fluxes at high spatial resolution using a multidisciplinary approach of permafrost field observations, remote sensing and 3D geological modeling. Geomorphology 455, 109183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109183

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. (2023). Batagay Megaslump: a review of the permafrost deposits, Quaternary environmental history, and recent development. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 34(3), 399-416. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2194

Opel et al. (2026). Geochronology of the Upper Ice Complex (Yedoma) exposed in the Batagay Megaslump, East Siberia. Arctic, Antarctic, Alpine Research 58(1), 2622802. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2026.2622802

East Siberia, Laptev Sea region

Kuznetsova et al. (2026) The Mammoth fauna as a paleontological characteristic of the Yedoma Ice Complex of Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Eastern Arctic Siberia), Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 58(1), 2622152. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2026.2622152

Schirrmeister et al. (2025). Newly dated permafrost deposits and their paleoecological inventory reveal an Eemian much warmer than today in Arctic Siberia. Climate of the Past 21, 1143-1184. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1143-2025

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). 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

Alaska

Meyer et al. (2010). Permafrost evidence for severe winter cooling during the Younger Dryas in northern Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters 37, L03501. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041013

Wetterich et al. (2012). Late Quaternary environmental and landscape dynamics revealed by a pingo sequence on the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews 39, 26-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.027

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

Svalbard

Demidov et al. (2024). Thaw slump development and other rapid permafrost disturbances in Hollendardalen Valley, Svalbard. Polar Science 42, 101122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2024.101122

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