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Lutz Schirrmeister is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Environmental Science. The subfields covered include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Ecology, and General Health Professions.

The main topics of Schirrmeister's work encompass climate change and permafrost, geology and paleoclimatology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, cryospheric studies and observations, geological studies and exploration, indigenous studies and ecology, as well as peatlands and wetlands ecology.

They have coauthored research frequently with several scientists, notably:

  • Guido Grosse
  • Jens Strauß
  • Sebastian Wetterich
  • Matthias Fuchs
  • Thomas Opel

Schirrmeister's publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
  • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Schirrmeister include:

  • "Circum-Arctic Map of the Yedoma Permafrost Domain," 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Thermo-erosional valleys in Siberian ice-rich permafrost," 2020, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • "The genesis of Yedoma Ice Complex permafrost - grain-size endmember modeling analysis from Siberia and Alaska," 2020, E&G Quaternary Science Journal
  • "A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Stabilization of mineral-associated organic carbon in Pleistocene permafrost," 2023, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

    Gustaf Hugelius;Jens Strauss;Sebastian Zubrzycki;Jennifer W. Harden

  • Deep Yedoma permafrost: A synthesis of depositional characteristics and carbon vulnerability

    Jens Strauss;Lutz Schirrmeister;Guido Grosse;Guido Grosse;Daniel Fortier

  • Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic records from permafrost deposits in the Arctic region of Northern Siberia

    Lutz Schirrmeister;Christine Siegert;Tatyana Kuznetsova;Svetlana Kuzmina

  • Modern terrigenous organic carbon input to the Arctic Ocean

    V. Rachold;H. Eicken;V. V. Gordeev;M. N. Grigoriev

  • Sedimentary characteristics and origin of the Late Pleistocene Ice Complex on north-east Siberian Arctic coastal lowlands and islands – A review

    Lutz Schirrmeister;V. Kunitsky;Guido Grosse;Sebastian Wetterich

  • The periglacial climate and environment in northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation

    Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten;Andrei A. Andreev;Valery I. Astakhov;Igor Demidov

  • The deep permafrost carbon pool of the Yedoma region in Siberia and Alaska.

    Jens Strauss;Lutz Schirrmeister;Guido Grosse;Guido Grosse;Sebastian Wetterich

  • A new data set for estimating organic carbon storage to 3 m depth in soils of the northern circumpolar permafrost region

    G. Hugelius;James G. Bockheim;P. Camill;B. Elberling;B. Elberling

  • PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL FEATURES | Yedoma: Late Pleistocene Ice-Rich Syngenetic Permafrost of Beringia

    Lutz Schirrmeister;D. Froese;V. Tumskoy;Guido Grosse

  • Spatial analyses of thermokarst lakes and basins in Yedoma landscapes of the Lena Delta

    Anne Morgenstern;Guido Grosse;Frank Günther;I. Fedorova

  • Fossil organic matter characteristics in permafrost deposits of the northeast Siberian Arctic

    Lutz Schirrmeister;Guido Grosse;Sebastian Wetterich;Pier Paul Overduin

  • Palaeoenvironmental dynamics inferred from late Quaternary permafrost deposits on Kurungnakh Island, Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia, Russia

    Sebastian Wetterich;Svetlana Kuzmina;Andrei A. Andreev;Frank Kienast

  • Observation-based modelling of permafrost carbon fluxes with accounting for deep carbon deposits and thermokarst activity

    T. Schneider von Deimling;T. Schneider von Deimling;G. Grosse;J. Strauss;L. Schirrmeister

  • Vegetation and climate history in the Laptev Sea region (Arctic Siberia) during Late Quaternary inferred from pollen records

    Andrei A. Andreev;Lutz Schirrmeister;Pavel E. Tarasov;Andrey Ganopolski

  • Palaeoclimate Reconstruction on Big Lyakhovsky Island, North Siberia—Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotopes in Ice Wedges

    Hanno Meyer;Alexander Dereviagin;Christine Siegert;Lutz Schirrmeister

  • Late Quaternary history of the accumulation plain North of the Chekanovsky Ridge (Lena Delta, Russia) : a multidisciplinary approach

    Lutz Schirrmeister;Guido Grosse;Georg Schwamborn;A. A. Andreev

  • Palaeobotanical evidence for warm summers in the East Siberian Arctic during the last cold stage

    Frank Kienast;Lutz Schirrmeister;Christine Siegert;Pavel Tarasov

  • Evolution of thermokarst in East Siberian ice-rich permafrost: A case study

    Anne Morgenstern;Mathias Ulrich;Frank Günther;Sebastian Roessler

  • Geological and geomorphological evolution of a sedimentary periglacial landscape in Northeast Siberia during the Late Quaternary

    Guido Grosse;Lutz Schirrmeister;Christine Siegert;Viktor V. Kunitsky

  • Circum-Arctic Map of the Yedoma Permafrost Domain

    Jens Strauss;Sebastian Laboor;Lutz Schirrmeister;Alexander N. Fedorov

  • The use of CORONA images in remote sensing of periglacial geomorphology: an illustration from the NE Siberian coast

    Guido Grosse;Lutz Schirrmeister;Viktor V. Kunitsky;Viktor V. Kunitsky;Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian Wetterich
Sebastian Wetterich Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jens Strauss
Jens Strauss Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hanno Meyer
Hanno Meyer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hugues Lantuit
Hugues Lantuit University of Potsdam
Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten
Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Mikhail N. Grigoriev
Mikhail N. Grigoriev Russian Academy of Sciences
Wayne H. Pollard
Wayne H. Pollard McGill University
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam

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