News
A year of working at the NIhK as part of the FSJ has come to an end …
Fething, tidal channel and water well: geoarchaeological excavations at Iggewarden completed
The NIhK takes part in Wilhelmshaven’s ‘Long Night of Science’
News from the excavations in the Borgsumburg on Föhr
About us
The Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (NIhK) studies the development of settlements, landscapes, and vegetation of the German coastline and its surroundings starting in the last ice age and reaching into the present day. Our institute employs a wide range of methods, combining and continuously developing various techniques from microscopic environmental research to the study of whole landscapes and settlements.