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Bernhard Diekmann is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics of Diekmann's research involve Geology and Paleoclimatology, Climate change and permafrost, Methane hydrates and related phenomena, Environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, Geological studies and exploration, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Peatlands and Wetlands ecology.

Diekmann has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Orbital- and millennial-scale Antarctic Circumpolar Current variability in Drake Passage over the past 140,000 years (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Geochemical and sedimentological responses of arctic glacial Lake Ilirney, Chukotka (Far East Russia) to palaeoenvironmental change since ∼51.8 ka BP (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Past, present, and future geo-biosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and implications for permafrost (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Vegetation Changes in Southeastern Siberia During the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Effects of climate change and industrialization on Lake Bolshoe Toko, eastern Siberia (2021, Journal of Paleolimnology)

Diekmann frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Diekmann's research, with frequent co-authors including Boris K. Biskaborn, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, Ulrike Herzschuh, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, and Gerhard Kühn.

Best Publications

  • Permafrost is warming at a global scale

    Boris K. Biskaborn;Sharon L. Smith;Jeannette Noetzli;Heidrun Matthes

  • An end-member algorithm for deciphering modern detrital processes from lake sediments of Lake Donggi Cona, NE Tibetan Plateau, China

    Elisabeth Dietze;Kai Hartmann;Bernhard Diekmann;Janneke IJmker

  • Holocene environments and climate in the Mongolian Altai reconstructed from the Hoton-Nur pollen and diatom records: a step towards better understanding climate dynamics in Central Asia

    Natalia Rudaya;Pavel Tarasov;Nadezhda Dorofeyuk;Nadia Solovieva

  • Hydrological evolution during the last 15 kyr in the Tso Kar lake basin (Ladakh, India), derived from geomorphological, sedimentological and palynological records

    Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann;Dieter Demske;Pavel Tarasov;Bahadur S. Kotlia

  • Geological record and reconstruction of the late Pliocene impact of the Eltanin asteroid in the Southern Ocean

    Rainer Gersonde;F. T. Kyte;U. Bleil;Bernhard Diekmann

  • Detrital sediment supply in the southern Okinawa Trough and its relation to sea-level and Kuroshio dynamics during the late Quaternary

    Bernhard Diekmann;Jana Hofmann;Rüdiger Henrich;Dieter K. Fütterer

  • Sediment transport processes across the Tibetan Plateau inferred from robust grain-size end members in lake sediments

    Elisabeth Dietze;F. Maussion;M. Ahlborn;Bernhard Diekmann

  • Provenance and transport of terrigenous sediment in the south Atlantic Ocean and their relations to glacial and interglacial cycles: Nd and Sr isotopic evidence

    H.J Walter;E Hegner;B Diekmann;G Kuhn

  • Quantitative reconstruction of precipitation changes on the NE Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum – extending the concept of pollen source area to pollen-based climate reconstructions from large lakes

    Yongbo Wang;Yongbo Wang;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh;Steffen Mischke;Steffen Mischke

  • Provenance and dispersal of glacial-marine surface sediments in the Weddell Sea and adjoining areas, Antarctica: ice-rafting versus current transport

    Bernhard Diekmann;Gerhard Kuhn

  • Ostracods and stable isotopes of a late glacial and Holocene lake record from the NE Tibetan Plateau

    Steffen Mischke;Bernhard Aichner;Bernhard Diekmann;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • 800-yr-long records of annual air temperature and precipitation over southern Siberia inferred from Teletskoye Lake sediments

    Ivan Kalugin;Andrei Daryin;Lyubov Smolyaninova;Andrei Andreev

  • Aeolian sediments on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Georg Stauch;Janneke IJmker;Steffen Pötsch;Hui Zhao

  • Early to mid-Holocene lake high-stand sediments at Lake Donggi Cona, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China

    Elisabeth Dietze;Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann;Kai Hartmann;Bernhard Diekmann

  • Terrigenous sediment supply in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean): response to Late Quaternary ice dynamics in Patagonia and on the Antarctic Peninsula

    Bernhard Diekmann;Gerhard Kuhn;Volker Rachold;Andrea Abelmann

  • Distribution of clay minerals and proxies for productivity in surface sediments of the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas (West Antarctica) – Relation to modern environmental conditions

    Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;Hannes Grobe;Bernhard Diekmann;Gerhard Kuhn

  • Late Quaternary vegetation and environments in the Verkhoyansk Mountains region (NE Asia) reconstructed from a 50-kyr fossil pollen record from Lake Billyakh

    Stefanie Müller;Pavel E. Tarasov;Andrei A. Andreev;Thomas Tütken

  • Quantitative relationship between water-depth and sub-fossil ostracod assemblages in Lake Donggi Cona, Qinghai Province, China

    Steffen Mischke;Ulrich Bößneck;Bernhard Diekmann;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Sedimentary record of the mid-Pleistocene climate transition in the southeastern South Atlantic (ODP Site 1090)

    Bernhard Diekmann;Gerhard Kuhn

  • Late Glacial and Holocene development of Lake Donggi Cona, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from sedimentological analysis

    Stephan Opitz;Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann;Bernhard Aichner;Elisabeth Dietze

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Wünnemann
Bernd Wünnemann Freie Universität Berlin
Frank Lehmkuhl
Frank Lehmkuhl RWTH Aachen University
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Steffen Mischke
Steffen Mischke University of Iceland
Andrea Abelmann
Andrea Abelmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Sabine Kasten
Sabine Kasten University of Bremen
Lutz Schirrmeister
Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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