The World Heat Flow Portal (WHFP) project, a continuation of the World Heat Flow Database (2022–2025), is dedicated to consolidating and enhancing the current research data infrastructure for global terrestrial heat-flow data (www.heatflow.world). This project is designed to provide the geoscientific community with efficient and open access to and utilization of over a century's worth of research and data collection. The project emphasizes the improvement and expansion of the current research data infrastructure and web-based data portal, focusing on increased resilience, interoperability, and user experience. Key initiatives include 

• concluding the global data assessment
• transitioning the data publication process from the current prototype to a fully semi-automated system,
• expanding the database with new data types and enhanced metadata standards (esp. for marine heat flow data), and
• strengthening both front-end and back-end functionalities.

These enhancements will include additional API representations, advanced analytical tools, educational resources, and community-driven data and metadata enrichment. A crucial aspect of the WHFP is the integration of marine heat-flow data, bridging the fields of geoscience and oceanography, and establishing standard practices across these disciplines.

The project (phase two: 09.2025-08.2028) is funded by the "The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (DFG, German Research Foundation). See the GEPRIS project overview.

Project partners are the 

• GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (Sven Fuchs, Kirsten Elger, Ben Norden, Sam Jennings, Samah Elbarbary, Viktoria Dergunova)
• Technical University of Dresden (Stephan Mäs, Nikolas Ott)
• University of Bremen/MARUM (Achim Kopf, Florian Neumann). 

Contact the project PI. The full team behind the development of phase two is listed here. External partners are listed here: