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Sebastian Wetterich publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sebastian Wetterich sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Sebastian Wetterich D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sebastian Wetterich sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Sebastian Wetterich is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry as leading subfields. The work also spans Geology, Ecology, and General Health Professions as related disciplines.

The main research topics covered by Wetterich include:

  • 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
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Among the recent scientific papers authored, notable publications include:

  • "Circum-Arctic Map of the Yedoma Permafrost Domain," 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Rapid Fluvio-Thermal Erosion of a Yedoma Permafrost Cliff in the Lena River Delta," 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "A multimethod dating study of ancient permafrost, Batagay megaslump, east Siberia," 2021, Quaternary Research

Frequent co-authors in Wetterich's publications include:

  • Lutz Schirrmeister
  • Thomas Opel
  • Guido Grosse
  • Alexander Kizyakov
  • Jens Strauß

The scientist's work is regularly published in key venues such as:

  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines

    Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Pier Paul Overduin;Nicole Couture;Sebastian Wetterich

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Anne Morgenstern;Mathias Ulrich;Frank Günther;Sebastian Roessler

  • Circum-Arctic Map of the Yedoma Permafrost Domain

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

  • Organic matter quality of deep permafrost carbon – a study from Arctic Siberia

    Jens Strauss;Jens Strauss;Lutz Schirrmeister;Kai Mangelsdorf;Luise Eichhorn

  • Grain-size properties and organic-carbon stock of Yedoma Ice Complex permafrost from the Kolyma lowland, northeastern Siberia

    Jens Strauss;Lutz Schirrmeister;Sebastian Wetterich;Andreas Borchers

  • Ice Complex formation in arctic East Siberia during the MIS3 Interstadial

    Sebastian Wetterich;Vladimir Tumskoy;Natalia A. Rudaya;Andreev Andreev

  • Eemian and Late Glacial/Holocene palaeoenvironmental records from permafrost sequences at the Dmitry Laptev Strait (NE Siberia, Russia)

    Sebastian Wetterich;Lutz Schirrmeister;Andrei A. Andreev;Michael Pudenz

  • Last Glacial Maximum records in permafrost of the East Siberian Arctic

    Sebastian Wetterich;Natalia Rudaya;Vladimir Tumskoy;Andrei A. Andreev

  • Origin and characteristics of massive ground ice on Herschel Island (western Canadian Arctic) as revealed by stable water isotope and Hydrochemical signatures

    Michael Fritz;Sebastian Wetterich;Hanno Meyer;Lutz Schirrmeister

  • Recent Progress Regarding Permafrost Coasts

    Hugues Lantuit;Paul Overduin;Sebastian Wetterich

  • Permafrost evidence for severe winter cooling during the Younger Dryas in northern Alaska

    Hanno Meyer;Lutz Schirrmeister;Kenji Yoshikawa;Thomas Opel

  • Paleontological records indicate the occurrence of open woodlands in a dry inland climate at the present-day Arctic coast in western Beringia during the Last Interglacial

    Frank Kienast;Sebastian Wetterich;Svetlana Kuzmina;Svetlana Kuzmina;Lutz Schirrmeister

  • Eastern Beringia and beyond: Late Wisconsinan and Holocene landscape dynamics along the Yukon Coastal Plain, Canada

    Michael Fritz;Sebastian Wetterich;Lutz Schirrmeister;Hanno Meyer

  • Coastal changes in the Arctic

    Paul P. Overduin;M. C. Strzelecki;M. C. Strzelecki;M. N. Grigoriev;N. Couture

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Schirrmeister
Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse 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
Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jens Strauss
Jens Strauss Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Wayne H. Pollard
Wayne H. Pollard McGill University
Benjamin M. Jones
Benjamin M. Jones University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mikhail N. Grigoriev
Mikhail N. Grigoriev Russian Academy of Sciences

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