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Dr. Sara E. Anthony
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Climate scientist studying methane dynamics in coastal wetlands. Especially interested in methane, isotopes, and methylotrophic methanogens. Postdoc @ Uni Münster
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It's been a long time, but I was able to do some of my own #FieldWork in a Sylt #SaltMarsh a couple weeks ago. We tried installing some dialysis chambers (the mud puddles) and did some of my usual porewater collection with ceramic-tipped single point samplers. #WomenInSTEM #PostDoc 👩‍🔬 #PoreWater #GHG
Landscape view of a grazed salt marsh showing a number of installed stick-like pore water sampling devices. There are high and low parts of the terrain, with the low parts filled with water. An up close view of installed pore water samplers in a patch of Spartina cordgrass A close up of the dialysis chamber installed, with some sticking out of the ground. They're meant for peatlands, so you are supposed to push them in, but we had to dig them in due to the sand underneath the salt marsh sediment. Taking a GPS measurement of one of the sampling spots in a Spartina patch. I use the Map Cam app, so I get a picture, can take notes, and a GPS point all encoded together.
August 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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After a couple days they're now clear with a crystalline precipitate. Has anyone ever seen this before?

I also have had some samples go light orange, which is not normal either.

I suspect the reagents are reacting to something in the samples. They're salt marsh porewater samples.
August 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Hey #Science #Chemistry people, I had a weird reaction during methyl-blue photometric sulfide analysis. They started purple after reagents were added and reaction time had finished. I analyzed them, put them aside, and after maybe 10 minutes noticed they had turned fluorescent pink.
August 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Also look at these tiny #Salicornia sprouts on #Sylt!
Close up picture of numerous two-leaved Salicornia plant sprouts. The leaves are succulent like and are a mix of red and green colors.
April 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The past few weeks I've been traveling up and down the German North Sea coast vising Salt Mashes in the Wadden Sea as part of my work with the BMBF-funded project TRICMA2. I'm looking forward to working in the Salt Mashes this summer
April 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I'm officially done with my PhD! I successfully defended on March 21st, and received my degree over the weekend. Here are a few pictures from my defense, with my advisors Prof. Dr. Susanne Liebner and Prof. Dr. Gerald Jurasinski, and one with most of the #BalticTRANSCOAST 3rd cohort PhDs.
April 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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I'm happy to announce that I started a new position at the #University of #Münster as a ( #Postdoc) #Researcher in the TRICMA2 project and have submitted my #doctoral #thesis! I know I've been quiet lately, but look forward to more field pics of porewater, this time from #Wadden #Sea salt #marshes!
I am standing with three black hardbound doctoral thesis books in my arms, with a generally neutral look on my face because apparently I couldn't smile normally. A zoomed in view of the cover of one copy of my black hardcover bound thesis, with three lines of text in silver: "Doctoral Thesis" "The Impact of Sulfate on Methane Cycling in Coastal Wetlands" "Sara E. Anthony" A view of the GEO1 building at the University of Münster, which houses the Institute of Landscape Ecology (ILÖK) and my new place of work. The building is grey with green bump out window accents around the lecture rooms, and has 6 floors plus a basement. Grey skies and other University buildings are visible in the background
January 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Happy international black dog day from Willow!
October 1, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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I attended and presented at the international Peatland Science Conference organized by the University of Applied Science of Weihenstephan-Triesdorf and the Peatland Science Center in Freising, Germany. It was a great conference and my last one as a doctoral candidate.
A 35-year old woman stands in front of a plot of Typha paludiculture. The Typha is full grown and has cattails. A view of a large field of Carex to be harvested in a few months for use in prodcuts. The field is a Paludiculture test plot. Image shows the title slide of a presentation entitled "Microbial community development during and after rewetting a coastal peatland". The lead and presenting author is Sara E Anthony, from the Universities of Rostock and Greifswald, and coauthors include Cordula Gutekunst, Dominik H. Zak, Klaus-Holger Knorr, Susanne Liebner, and Gerald Jurasinski. This picture was taken by Miaorun Wang. Funders listed include the DFG and the Joachim Herz Foundation. The so-called Moorpegel (in German) is a 2.9 meter tall wooden square beam that in 1836 was hammered into the peat at Königsmoos which is in the heart of the Donaumoos area in Bavaria, near Ingolstadt. This is a visual representation of how much peat has been lost since the pole was installed (almost 3 meters) and peat loss continues today at a rate of 1 cm a year.
September 22, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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I was #1,227,948, not so bad!
September 17, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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I'm at #EMBOarchaea24 this week! If you're also here, come say hi! I'm at poster 4. #BalticTRANSCOAST #PhD #WomenInSTEM
June 24, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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#BalticTRANSCOAST 2nd cohort candidate Erwin Don Racasa sucessfully defended his doctoral thesis today. Congrats Erwin!!! #PhD
June 21, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Today was my 35th birthday and almost all of the #BalticTRANSCOAST PhDs currently in
a Rostock came to celebrate with me! ❤️❤️❤️ Those who couldnt make it were there in spirit!
June 5, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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#EGU24 is over, and I had a really good time this year. I was able to meet up with a lot of people I haven't seen in a while, had some really nice conversations ovee the week and co-convened my first session. #PhD #WomenInSTEM #geosciences #BalticTRANSCOAST
April 20, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Thanks to all who came to my presentation and the organizers of my session! I'll be at the BG7.1 poster sessions later if you want to speak with me.
April 16, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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Visited Mikkeller Berlin and BRLO's Kaschk while waiting for the Nightjet to #EGU24.
April 13, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Do you work on #Coastal or near-coastal #ecosystems? Are you attending #EGU24? Submit your abstract to our session! BG4.3 Interconnection, exchange and element cycling at shallow coasts meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/…#WomenInSTEME#phdchatat
View from the beach on the German island of Spiekeroog towards the North Sea side, with a view of a measuring tower.
December 20, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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Hello Portland! It's been more than 6 years, and I'm only here for a week, but happy to be here!
Picture of the carpet in the PDX airport with my feet.
November 13, 2023 at 12:44 AM
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One last day at Drammendorf today with Joachim Hofmann, taking RTK GPS measurements of all of my sampling points and removing the redox probes and weather stations. Now I'm really finished with field work for my #PhD. At least we had nice weather for the last day there! #BalticTRANSCOAST
A wooden boardwalk stretches across the middle of the picture, sitting in the middle of an expanse of water. In the far distance a little strip of land can be seen. A view of an expanse of water with a wooden boardwalk in the middle. In the very far back some strips of shore can be seen.
October 30, 2023 at 1:58 PM
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Different views of the salt marsh on the Spiekeroog Ostplatte. I was on the #BalticTRANSCOAST fall field school this past week, looking at some tidal systems in comparison to the Baltic. #PhD #phdlife 👩🏼‍🔬
October 14, 2023 at 9:55 PM
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Our paper on microbial methane cycling came out 6 months ago! Dominant #methylotrophic #methanogenesis, #AOM, #ANME -2a/b, and more!: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... P.S. the cover image of issue taken by co-author Jens Strauss 🤩
Cover of 10th issue of volume 29 of scientific journal Global Change Biology with an image of the swirling green Aurora Borealis in Siberia with hues of the sunset still visible on the horizon
October 4, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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Here is the other peatland, which also has some very nice Heide/Heath around it. Herds of sheep with a few goats mixed in are used to manage the heath and keep trees and other unwanted plants at bay. The Roode Beek starts from this peatland.
A sundew, which is a type of carnivorous plant that likes wet areas, like peatlands View of a restored peatland with a border of trees. The best restored areas are in the little valleys, which can be seen by the change in vegetation A herd of sheep with a few goats mixed in, with grass in the foreground and heather with a few coniferous trees in the background. A view of the start of Roode Beek (red creek), coming out of the restored peatland area, foreground is boggy with the background becoming more open water.
September 27, 2023 at 7:54 AM
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I visited two restored peatland areas along the Roode Beek in the Netherlands as part of #Power2Peatlands last week, very wet but very nice to see such nice looking peatlands. The one pictured here, which is a hillslope bog/fen will be expanded soon! (Repost from twitter)
View of a restored blanket bog, with trees along the borderline Close up image of red-orange Narthecium Ossifragum, commonly known as Bog Asphodel, in a restored bog Selfie-style image of a woman in the foreground and a peatland in the background bordered by trees A group of 15-20 people walking through a restored peatland, with heather in the foreground and trees along the peatland border
September 27, 2023 at 7:42 AM