2022 - 2026
Employment as scientific staff member at the Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald (Research Group Peatland Science and Palaeoecology) 

2012 - 2022
Changing positions as a scientific staff member at the Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald (Research Group Peatland Studies and Palaeoecology) and the Institute for Sustainable Development of the Earth's Natural Environments (DUENE e.V.)

2009-2011
Scientific staff member at the Institute for Sustainable Development of the Earth's Natural Environments (DUENE e.V.)

2011
Parental leave

2007-2010
PhD "Vegetation dynamics and carbon sequestration of Holocene (Alnus glutinosa) carrs in NE Germany". (Link)

2007-2009
Short-term employment and freelance work for the University of Greifswald (analysis of diaspore traps from Sphagnum cultivation areas; selection of material for 14C radiocarbon dating)

2006
Parental leave

2002-2005
Scientific staff member at the Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, working group Peatland Studies and Paleoecology

2001-2002
Scientific staff member at the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart)

1995-2000
Studies of landscape ecology, geography and botany at the University of Greifswald

current projects

• ALFAwetlands - Restoration for the future (EU, 2022-2026)

• WET HORIZONS - Improving wetland knowledge and developing tools to enhance protection and restoration of Europe’s wetlands (EU, 2022-2026)

previous projects

• GPI-ICI - The Global Peatlands Initiative: Assessing, Measuring and Preserving Peat Carbon (BMUB/ICI, 2019-2022)

• "Deutscher Moorschutzdialog" - Impulse für Klimaschutz, Biodiversität und nachhaltige Landnutzung auf Mooren (BMUB, 2015-2018)

• Assessment of Carbon (CO2) emissions avoidance potential from the Nile Basin peatlands (GIZ, 2019)

• “Scientific and technical Briefing Note on inventories for designating tropical peatlands as Wetlands of International Importance” (Ramsar Convention, 2017-2018)

• ‘Review of the importance of peatlands in the countries within the Nordic Baltic Wetland Initiative for mitigation climate change and potentials for restoration with a reference to designate peatland RAMSAR sites in the region’ (Nordic Council of Ministers, 2014-2015) 

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

• Fluet-Chouinard E, Stocker BD, Zhang Z. et al. (2023) Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries. Nature 614:281–286 (2023). DOI:10.1038/s41586-022-05572-6

• Temmink RJM, Robroek BJM, van Dijk G et al. (2023) Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures. Ambio, DOI:10.1007/s13280-023-01875-8

• Jurasinski G, Byrne K, & Chojnicki B, Christiansen J, Huth V, Joosten H, Juszczak R, Juutinen S, Kasimir Å, Klemedtsson L, Kotowski W, Kull A, Lamentowicz M, Lindgren A, Linkevičienė R, Lohila A, Mander Ü, Manton M, Minkkinen K, Couwenberg J (2023). Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7831173

• Tanneberger F, Moen A, Barthelmes A, Lewis E, Miles L, Sirin A, Tegetmeyer C, Joosten J (2021) Mires in Europe—Regional Diversity, Condition and Protection. Diversity 13(8):381.  DOI:10.3390/d13080381

• Humpenöder F, Karstens K, Lotze-Campen H, Leifeld J, Menichetti L, Barthelmes A, Popp A (2020) Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation. Environmental Research Letters 15:1748-9326.

• Günther A, Barthelmes A, Huth V, Joosten H, Jurasinski G, Koebsch F, Couwenberg J (2020) Prompt rewetting of drained peatlands reduces climate warming despite methane emissions. Nature Communications 11:1644.

• Tanneberger F, Tegetmeyer C, Busse S, Barthelmes A, Shumka S, Mariné A, Jenderedjian K, Steiner GM, Essl F, Etzold J, Mendes C, Kozulin A, Frankard P, Milanović Đ, Ganeva A, Apostolova I, Alegro A, Delipetrou P Navrátilová J, Joosten H (2017) The peatland map of Europe. Mires and Peat 19:1–17.

• Crump J (ed.) (2017) Smoke on water – countering global threats from peatland loss and degradation. A UNEP Rapid Response Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal, Nairobi and Arendal, www.grida.no

• Prager A, Theuerkauf M, Couwenberg J, Barthelmes A, Joosten H, Aptroot A (2012) Pollen and Non-pollen palynomorphs as tools for identifying alder carr deposits: A surface sample study from NE-Germany. Review of Palynology and Palaeobotany 186:38-57.

• Barthelmes A, de Klerk P, Prager A, Unterseher M, Joosten H (2012) Expanding NPP analysis to eutrophic and forested sites: Significance of NPPs in a Holocene wood peat section (NE Germany). Review of Palynology and Palaeobotany 186:22-37.

• Couwenberg J, Thiele A, Tanneberger F, Augustin J, Bärisch S, Dubovik D, Liashchynskaya N, Michaelis D, Minke M, Skuratovich A, Joosten H (2011) Assessing greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands using vegetation as a proxy. Hydrobiologia 674:67-89.

• Barthelmes A, Gerloff D, de Klerk P, Joosten H (2010) Short-lived vegetation dynamics in alder carrs: a palaeoecological case study from Vorpommern (NE Germany). Folia Geobotanica 45:279-302.

• Kaiser K, Miehe G, Barthelmes A, Ehrmann O, Scharf A, Schult M, Schlütz F, Adamczyk S, Frenzel B (2008) Turf-bearing topsoils on the central Tibetan Plateau, China: pedology, botany, geochronology. Catena 73: 300-311.

• Barthelmes A, Prager A, Joosten H (2006): Palaeoecological research of Alnus wood peats with special attention to non-pollen palynomorphs. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 141:33-51.

• Kaiser K, Barthelmes A, Czakó Pap S, Hilgers A, Janke W, Kühn P, Theuerkauf M (2006) A Lateglacial palaeosol cover in the Altdarss area, southern Baltic Sea coast (northeast Germany): investigations on pedology, geochronology and botany. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 85:197-220.

• Prager A, Barthelmes A, Theuerkauf M, Joosten H (2006) Non-pollen palynomorphs from modern Alder carrs and their potential for interpreting microfossil data from peat. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 141:7-31.

• Prager A, Barthelmes A, Joosten H (2006) A touch of tropics in temperate mires: on Alder carrs and carbon cycles. Peatlands International 2006:26-31.

Conference Proceedings

• Barthelmes A, Dommain R, Joosten H (2012): Global potential of paludiculture as land use alternative for rewetted peatlands. Proceedings of the 14th International Peat Congress, Stockholm 3-8 June, Sweden, pp. 387-394.

• Barthelmes A, Couwenberg  J (2008): Carbon accumulation in alder carrs (case studies from north-east Germany). In: Farrel C, Feehan J (eds.) After wise use - The future of peatlands. Proc. 13th Int. Peat Congress, Tullamore 8-13 June Ireland, pp. 564-568.

Research reports, discussion papers, other journal papers

• UNEP (2022) Global Peatlands Assessment – The State of the World’s Peatlands: Evidence for action toward the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of peatlands. Main Report. Global Peatlands Initiative. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi.

• Tegetmeyer C, Barthelmes K-D, Busse S, Barthelmes A (2021) Aggregated map of the organic soils of Germany. 2nd, revised version. Proceedings of the Greifswald Mire Centre 01/2021 (self-published, ISSN 2627‐910X), 10 p. (in German).

• Ramsar Convention Secretariat (2018) Guidelines for inventories of tropical peatlands to facilitate their designation as Ramsar Sites. Briefing Notes 9, Ramsar Convention, Gland, Switzerland.

• United Nations Environment Programme, & GRID-Arendal (2017) Smoke on Water: Countering Global Threats from Peatland Loss and Degradation - A Rapid Response Assessment. Revised Edition. https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/22919.

• Barthelmes A, Ballhorn U, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2015) Consulting Study 5: Practical guidance on locating and delineating peatlands and other organic soils in the Tropics. The High Carbon Stock Science Study 2015, available at: http://www.carbonstockstudy.com/resource-centre/reports

• Barthelmes A, Couwenberg J, Risager M, Tegetmeyer C, Joosten H (2015) Peatlands and Climate in a Ramsar contex: A Nordic-Baltic Perspective. 10.6027/TN2015-544. 

• Barthelmes A, Couwenberg J, Emmer I, Schäfer A, Wichtmann W, Joosten H (2010) MoorFutures® - Kohlenstoff-Zertifikate aus der Wiedervernässung degradierter Moore in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Institut für Dauerhaft Umweltgerechte Entwicklung von Naturräumen der Erde (DUENE e.V.). 

• Barthelmes A, Berg J, Brandt V, Lemke E, Lenschow U, Lorenz S, Mauersberger R, Michaelis D, Röhe P, Rowinsky V, Schröder J, Wirner M (2010) Moore und Feuchtwälder in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Exkursionsführer zur Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Forstliche Standorts- und Vegetationskunde, Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin.

• Barthelmes A (2009) Vegetation dynamics and carbon sequestration in Holocene alder (Alnus glutinosa) carrs in NE Germany. Dissertation, Universität Greifswald.

• Barthelmes A, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2009) Peatlands in National Inventory Submissions 2009 - an analysis of 10 European countries. Wetlands International, Ede, 2009.

• Schäfer A, Joosten H, Barthelmes A, Kaffke A, Koska I, Schröder A, Succow M (2005) Erlenaufforstung auf wiedervernässten Niedermooren. ALNUS-Leitfaden, Institut für dauerhaft umweltgerechte Entwicklung von Naturräumen der Erde, Greifswald.

• Barthelmes A, Joosten H (2003) Moor- und Torftypen. Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Sitzungsbericht 12.

• Koska I, Barthelmes A, Kaffke A (2003) Umweltgerechter Erlenanbau – ökologische Aspekte. Greifswalder Geographische Arbeiten 31: 55 - 63.

• Joosten H, Gaudig G, Barthelmes A, Michaelis D (2003) Was lehrt uns die Vegetationsgeschichte über die Dynamik unserer Moore. Archiv für Naturschutz und Landschaftsforschung 42:49–65.

• Barthelmes A (2002) Vom Kesselmoor zum Quellmoor - ungewöhnliche Moorbildungssequenzen im Rodder Forst (Mecklenburg -Vorpommern). Greifswalder Geographische Arbeiten 26:131–134.