Working groups


Global Heat Flow Database

Speaker: Sven Fuchs

The working group "Heat Flow Database" defines structure and quality criteria of the Global Heat Flow Database and takes care to maintain and extend the database. Since 2021, we are mainly working on the continiues QC and extention of the database. We also support standardization efforts for marine heat flow data.

Next activities

  • Database release 2025/2026

Latest activities:

  • Splinter meeting during the EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 17 April 2024
  • Database release 2024 (April 2024)
  • heat flow workshop Africa, South Atlantic, South-, and Latin America (2 days, July 2023)
  • heat flow workshop on Antarctica (2 days, July 2023)
  • New quality scheme published (July 2023)
  • Database release 2023 (January 2023)
  • Workshop on in-depth evaluation, development and discussion of criteria for determination, documentation, data-banking, and quality assessment of heat-flow data during the Cermak7 (7th International Meeting on Heat Flow and the Geothermal Field Potsdam), Germany, 20.06.-22.06.2022
  • Collaborative development of a new quality scheme for the global heat flow database database.
  • Database release 2021 (April 2021)
  • Collaborative development of the new database structure. Digital kick-off workshop (14th May 2020, minutes)
  • Online questionnaire (May 2020): What are your past experiences with the database and your expectation for a new heat-flow data portal?

Previous speakers:

  • Will Gosnold (2000-2019)
  • Daniel Pribnow (1994-2000)
  • Eckardt Hurtig (1991-1994)
  • Henry N. Pollack (1987-1991)
  • David S. Chapman (1983-1987)