since april 2024
Research Associate, Peatland Studies and Palaeoecology, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald

2019 – 2022
Research Associate, Landscape Ecology, Faculty for Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Rostock.

2016 – 2019
M.Sc. Global Change Management, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development

2013 – 2016
B.Sc. Biology, Freie Universität Berlin

current projects

• Moor-PV – Climate and Peatland protection through a combination of photovoltaics and peatland rewetting (Joachim-Herz-Stiftung, 2024-2026)

previous projects

• Baltic TRANSCOAST - The German Baltic Sea Coast as Terrestrial-Marine Interface of Water and Matter Fluxes, Enhance knowledge of the shallow coast ecocline (DFG, 2019-2022)

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

• Gutekunst, C.N., Liebner, S., Jenner, A.-K., Racasa, E.D., Knorr, K.-H., Anthony, S.E., Pönisch, D.L., Böttcher, M.E., Janssen, M., Kallmeyer, J., Koebsch, F., Rehder, G., and Jurasinski, G. (2023) Brackish water rewetting of a temperate coastal peatland: Effects on biogeochemistry, microorganisms and greenhouse gas emissions, SSRN (preprint). DOI:10.2139/ssrn.4500448

• Pönisch, D.L., Breznikar, A., Gutekunst, C.N., Jurasinski, G., Rehder, G., and Voss, M. (2023) Nutrient release and flux dynamics of CO2, CH4 and N2O in a coastal peatland driven by actively induced rewetting with brackish water from the Baltic Sea, Biogeosciences. DOI:10.5194/bg-20-295-2023

• Gutekunst, C.N., Liebner, S., Jenner, A.-K., Knorr, K.-H., Unger, V., Koebsch, F., Racasa, E.D., Yang, S., Böttcher, M.E., Janssen, M., Kallmeyer, J., Otto, D., Schmiedinger, I., Winski, L., and Jurasinski, G. (2022) Effects of brackish water inflow on methane cycling microbial communities in a freshwater rewetted coastal fen, Biogeosciences. DOI:10.5194/bg-19-3625-2022

• Huth, V., Günther, A., Bartel, A., Gutekunst, C.N., Heinze, S., Hofer, B., Jacobs, O., Koebsch, F., Rosinski, E., Tonn, C., Ullrich, K., and Jurasinski, G. (2021) The climate benefits of topsoil removal and Sphagnum introduction in raised bog restoration, Restoration Ecology. DOI:10.1071/WF20153

• Karna, Y.K., Penman, T.D., Aponte, C., Gutekunst, C.N., and Bennett, L.T. (2021) Indications of positive feedbacks to flammability through fuel structure after high-severity fire in temperate eucalypt forests, International Journal of Wildland Fire. DOI:10.1111/rec.13490