Since 01/2026
Coordinator for greenhouse gas monitoring in the Paludinetz, Thünen Institute of Agricultural Climate Protection (part-time/substitute)
-> Development and harmonization of methodological standards for processing eddy covariance measurements at paludiculture sites, interface management and communication between project partners to ensure data interoperability

Since 11/2023
Postdoc, MRV4SOC project, University of Greifswald, Department of Peatland Science
-> Derivation of reliable proxies for measurable, verifiable, and reportable (MRV) quality management eddy covariance data within a network of peatland sites

04/2021-12/2023
Postdoc and project coordinator, Digital Forest project, University of Göttingen, Department of Bioclimatology
->Effects of extreme climate events on the CO₂ sink function of beech forests using innovative data analysis methods (did not start due to health issues)

11/2020-03/2021
Coordinator of DFG Transregio Wetscapes 2.0 application University of Greifswald, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology
-> Coordination tasks: coordination of content and form for application design, tendering for consulting services

02/2018-03/2021
Postdoc, MV State Excellence Initiative Project Wetscapes University of Rostock, Department of Landscape Ecology
-> Research topic: Methane and carbon dioxide emissions from near-natural and rewetted fens in north-eastern Germany

01/2017-01/2018
Postdoc Fellow Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå (Schweden)
-> Research topic: Camera-based parameterisation of phenology as a control variable for CO₂ exchange in a European network for peatland monitoring

01/2014-01/2017
Postdoc, Helmholtz Postdoc Programme Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
-> Research topic: Biogeochemical control factors of methane emissions in rewetted fens under historical brackish water influence

07/2014-12/2014
Coordinator of DFG Baltic Transcoast Graduate College application University of Rostock, Department of Landscape Ecology (75% part-time)
-> Coordination tasks: coordination of content and form for the application concept

- Science communication -
07 May 2024
Report on the wet use of peatlands at the “Workshop for Change” hosted by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Müncheberg

2023
Scientific consulting special exhibition “Digital Forest” at the “Forum Wissen”, science museum in Göttingen

26 August 2023
Interview “Forest and Climate” for the “Expedition Climate” campaign by the Alfred Wegener Institute and WWF Youth

30 June 2023
Talk “Forest and Climate” at the Climate Festival of the AStA University of Göttingen

11 June 2023
Talk “Climate Change and its Consequences” at the event “No Future?: Climate Crisis in Science and the Public Sphere” at the University of Göttingen

16 March 2023
Scientists for Future event “Climate crisis – what next?” – Lecture and discussion on the topic of peatland rewetting with Lower Saxony's Environmental Minister Christian Meyer

09 September 2022
Concert talk “The Four Seasons in (Climate) Change”

09 July 2022
Stand organisation and support: Night of Knowledge: The Forest and the Climate – Research findings from local beech forests

26 January 2022
Interview video series “What is climate change doing to the forest? Ragna asks (sustainable) questions”

02 September 2021
Forest tour for the “Forest Expert Group” delegation, an international exchange programme for foresters

07 December 2020
Online presentation for Fridays For Future Public Climate School Rostock “Radiation balance and greenhouse gas effect of the Earth”

12 September 2020
Lecture for Junge Union Kommunales Bildungswerk MV “Peatland protection is climate protection”

04 September 2020
Excursion Heinrich Böll Foundation Rostock “Threatened CO₂ reservoirs – The importance of forests and moors for the climate” in cooperation with the Rostock City Forestry Office

30 January 2020
Student orientation workshop: Simulation game to estimate the climate impact of municipal land use decisions

25 January 2020
German Nature Conservation Day Rostock, lecture “Climate protection potential through peatland conservation in Rostock”

22 September 2019
Climate Action Day Rostock, stand “Natural CO₂ sinks and the climate impact of peatland management”

31 July 2019
Tour de Natur, guided bike tour to the river valley moors of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Current projects

• MRV4SOC - Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Soil Organic Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Balance (EU, 2023-2026)
• Paludizentrale: Coordination of nationwide projects on paludiculture and peat soil protection

Previous projects

• Digital Forest - A real-time forest monitoring system for climate change impacts (Land Niedersachsen & VolkswagenStiftung, 2021-2024)
• WETSCAPES - Turnover processes in peatlands and coastal areas as a basis for land use, climate impact, and water protection (EU Sozialfonds, 2017-2021)
• Baltic TRANSCOAST - Interdisciplinary Graduate School (DFG): Researching complex land-sea exchange processes at the Baltic coast

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

• Donfack, L. S., Mund, M., Koebsch, F., Schall, P., Heidenreich, M. G., Seidel, D., & Ammer, C. (2024). Linking sap flow and tree water deficit in an unmanaged, mixed beech forest during the summer drought 2022. Plant Biology.
• Dietenberger, S., Mueller, M., …, Koebsch, F., … Thiel, C. (2023) Tree Stem Detection and Crown Delineation in a Structurally Diverse Deciduous Forest Combining Leaf-On and Leaf-Off UAV-SfM Data. Accepted by Remote Sensing. (DOI:10.3390/rs15184366)
• McNicol, G., et al. (58 co-authors inc. Koebsch, F.) (2023) Upscaling wetland methane emissions from the FLUXNET-CH4 eddy covariance network (UpCH4 v1.0): Model development, network assessment, and budget comparison. Accepted by AGU Advances.
• Stiegler, C., Koebsch, F., Ashween, A., …, & Knohl, A. (2023) Temporal variation in nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from an oil palm plantation in Indonesia: an ecosystem-scale analysis. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 00:1–19.
• Golub, M., Koupaei-Abyazani, N., Vesala, T., Mammarella, I., Ojala, A., Bohrer, G., ... Koebsch, F., …, & Desai, A. R. (2023). Diel, seasonal, and inter-annual variation in carbon dioxide effluxes from lakes and reservoirs. Environmental Research Letters, 18(3), 034046.
• El-Amine, M., Roy, A., Koebsch, F., Baltzer, J. L., Barr, A., Black, A., ... & Sonnentag, O. (2022). What explains the year-to-year variation in growing season timing of boreal black spruce forests?. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 324, 109113.
• Gutekunst, C. N., Liebner, S., Jenner, A. K., Knorr, K. H., Unger, V., Koebsch, F., ... & Jurasinski, G. (2022). Effects of brackish water inflow on methane-cycling microbial communities in a freshwater rewetted coastal fen. Biogeosciences, 19(15), 3625-3648.
• Huth, V., Günther, A., Bartel, A., Gutekunst, C., Heinze, S., Hofer, B., ... Koebsch, F., …, & Jurasinski, G. (2022). The climate benefits of topsoil removal and Sphagnum introduction in raised bog restoration (Vol. 30, No. 1, p. e13490). Malden, USA: Wiley Periodicals, Inc..
• Yu, X., Orth, R., Reichstein, M., Bahn, M., Klosterhalfen, A., Knohl, A., ... Koebsch, F., …, & Bastos, A. (2022). Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest. Biogeosciences, 19(17), 4315-4329.
• Yuan, K., Zhu, Q., Li, F., Riley, W. J., Torn, M., Chu, H., ... Koebsch, F., …, & Jackson, R. (2022). Causality guided machine learning model on wetland CH4 emissions across global wetlands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 324, 109115.
• Irvin, J., Zhou, S., McNicol, G., Lu, F., Liu, V., Fluet-Chouinard, E., ...., Koebsch, F., …, Jackson, R.B. (2021). Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 308.
• Beyer, F., Jansen, F., Jurasinski, G., Koch, M., Schröder, B., Koebsch, F. (2021). Drought years in peatland rewetting: rapid vegetation succession can maintain the net CO2 sink function. Biogeosciences, 18(3), 917-935.
• Huth, U., Koebsch, F., Kahle, P. (2020). Klimaschutzpotentiale in der kommunalen Siedlungsflächenpolitik am Beispiel der Stadt Rostock. Bodenschutz 25(4),152-158.
• Koebsch, F., Gottschalk, P., Beyer, F., Wille, C., Jurasinski, G., Sachs, T. (2020). The impact of occasional drought periods on vegetation spread and greenhouse gas exchange in rewetted fens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1810), 20190685.
• Graf, A., Klosterhalfen, A., Arriga, N., Bernhofer, C., Bogena, H., Bornet, F., Brüggemann, N., Brümmer, C., Buchmann, N., Chi, J., Chipeaux, C., Cremonese, E., Cuntz, M., Dušek, J., El-Madany, TS., Fares, S., … Koebsch, F., …, Vereecken, H. (2020). Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1810), 20190685.
• Zheng, F., Ciasis, P., Bastos, A., Stoy, P., Yang, H., Green, J., Wang, B., Yu, K., Huang, H., Knohl, A., Šigut, L., Gharun, M., Cuntz, M., Arriga, N., Roland, M., Peichl, M., Migliavacca, M., Cremonese, E., …., Koebsch, F., … (2020) Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1810), 20190685.
• 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(1), 1-5, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15499-z.
• Koebsch, F., Sonnentag, O., Järveoja, J., Peltoniemi, M., Alekseychik, P., Aurela, M., ... & Jackowicz‐Korczynski, M. (2020). Refining the role of phenology in regulating gross ecosystem productivity across European peatlands. Global Change Biology, 26(2), 876-887, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14905.
• Jurasinski, G., Ahmad, S., Anadon-Rosell, A., Berendt, J., Beyer, F., Bill, R., ... & Koebsch, F. (2020). From understanding to sustainable use of peatlands: The WETSCAPES approach. Soil Systems, 4(1), 14, DOI: 10.3390/soilsystems4010014.
• Koebsch, F., Winkel, M., Liebner, S., Liu, B., Westphal, J., Schmiedinger, I., ... & Unger, V. (2019) Sulfate deprivation triggers high methane production in a disturbed and rewetted coastal peatland. Biogeosciences, 16(9), 1937-1953, DOI: 0.5194/bg-16-1937-2019.
• Wen, X., Unger, V., Jurasinski, G., Koebsch, F., Horn, F., Rehder, G., ... & Böttcher, M. E. (2018) Predominance of methanogens over methanotrophs in rewetted fens characterized by high methane emissions. Biogeosciences, 15(21), 6519-6536, DOI:10.5194/bg-15-6519-2018. (selected as journal highlight article)
• Heinrich, I., Balanzategui, D., Bens, O., Blasch, G., Blume, T., Böttcher, F., Borg, E., Brademann, B., Brauer, A., Conrad, C., Dietze, E., Dräger, N., Fiener, P., Gerke, H., Güntner, A., Heine, I., Helle, G.,.Herbrich, M., Harfenmeister, K., Heußner, K.-U., Hohmann, C., Itzerott, S., Jurasinski, G., Kaiser, K., Kappler, C., Koebsch, F., ... & Dietze, E. (2018) Interdisciplinary Geo-ecological Research across Time Scales in the Northeast German Lowland Observatory (TERENO-NE). Vadose Zone Journal, 17(1).
• Koch, M., Koebsch, F., Hahn, J., & Jurasinski, G. (2017) From meadow to shallow lake: Monitoring secondary succession in a coastal fen after rewetting by flooding based on aerial imagery and plot data. Mires & Peat, 19, DOI: 10.19189/MaP.2015.OMB.188.
• Franz, D., Koebsch, F., Larmanou, E., Augustin, J., Sachs. T. (2016) High net CO2 and CH4 release at a polytrophic shallow lake on a formerly drained fen, Biogeosciences 13:3051–3070.
• Koebsch, F., Jurasinski, G., Koch, S., Hofmann, J., Glatzel, S. (2015) Controls for multi-scale temporal variation in ecosystem methane exchange during the growing season of a permanently inundated fen. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology: 204, 94-105, DOI:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.02.002.
• Sachs, T., Koebsch, F., Franz, D., Larmanou, E., Serafimovich, A., Kohnert, K. Jurasinski, G., Augustin, J. (2015)  Mehr Moor? - Zur Treibhausgasdynamik wiedervernässter Feuchtgebiete. System Erde: 5, 22-27, DOI: 10.2312/GFZ.syserde.05.01.4.
• Koch, S., Jurasinski, G., Koebsch, F., Koch, M., Glatzel, S. (2014) Spatial variability of annual estimates of methane emissions in a Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. dominated restored coastal brackish fen. Wetlands: 34, 593-602, DOI: 10.1007/s13157-014-0528-z.
• Koebsch, F., Jurasinski, G., Glatzel S. (2013) Plant species-specific effect of brackish water intrusion on methane emissions of a coastal fen. Wetlands Ecology and Management: 21, 323-337, DOI: 10.1007/s11273-013-9304-8.
• Koebsch, F., Glatzel, S., Hofmann, J., Forbrich I., Jurasinski G. (2013) CO2 exchange of a temperate fen during the conversion from moderately rewetting to flooding. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences: 118, 1-10, DOI:10.1002/jgrg.20069.
• Glatzel, S., Koebsch, F., Beetz, S., Hahn J., Richter, P., Jurasinski, G. (2011) Maßnahmen zur Minderung der Treibhausgasfreisetzung aus Mooren im mittleren Mecklenburg. Telma. Beiheft zu den Berichten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Moor- und Torfkunde 4: 85-106.