Blue carbon · Coastal ecosystems · Climate change
Research on carbon cycling in mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass meadows and macroalgae at regional and global scales.
Gothenburg, Sweden 57°42′N
Research profile
I am a marine biogeochemist investigating the coastal carbon cycle at regional and global scales with a focus on blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass meadows and macroalgae.
My research aims to close carbon budgets by quantifying benthic fluxes, carbon stocks, and greenhouse gas emissions. Using in situ observations, autonomous sampling technology, mesocosm experiments, and modelling approaches, I examine how coastal systems respond to environmental change and how they can contribute to climate change mitigation.
My career path across Germany, Australia, and Sweden has given me a strong international perspective and network that I actively bring into my research.
Research profile and citation figures: July 2026.
Current funded research
Independent projects on carbon sequestration, alkalinity production and coastal ecosystem responses to environmental change.
Seagrass · 2026–2029
Quantifying alkalinity production, dissolved inorganic carbon fluxes and carbon sequestration in cold-temperate eelgrass meadows using field measurements, laboratory analyses and coastal carbon budgets.
Seaweed · 2025–2028
Investigating carbon budgets, greenhouse gas exchange and environmental change in farmed and natural macroalgal ecosystems. Experimental work includes the Kiel Outdoor Benthocosms (KOB) at GEOMAR during a research mobility project.
Field sites and research infrastructure
Research across freshwater wetlands, mangroves and coastal marine environments.
Competitive grants
Funding for research on seagrass, seaweed and coastal biogeochemistry.
Carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas exchange and environmental change in macroalgal ecosystems.
Alkalinity production, inorganic carbon fluxes and carbon sequestration in eelgrass meadows.
45 + 16
Selected research finding
A global study across 45 mangrove systems and 16 saltmarshes revealed that bicarbonate export can be comparable to — or greater than — carbon burial in coastal soils.
Read the Nature Communications paperPeer-reviewed research · 2015–2026
28 research publications
Reithmaier, G. M. S., Pezner, A. K., Ulfsbo, A., Melzner, F., & Santos, I. R.
Xue, L., Li, Y., Reithmaier, G.M.S., Chen, X., Wei, Q., Hutahaean, A., Cai, W-J.
Tomer, A. S., McKenzie, T., Majtényi-Hill, C., Holloway, C., Rodriguez-Puig, J., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Henriksson, L., Szymczycha, B., & Santos, I. R.
Börjesson, S., Ljungberg, W., McKenzie, T., Reithmaier, G.M.S., Majtényi-Hill, C., Henriksson, L., Holloway, C., Yau, Y.Y.Y., Rodriguez-Puig, J., Böttcher, M.E., Santos, I.R.
Piñeiro-Juncal, N., Serrano, O., de los Santos, C. B., Marbà, N., Díaz-Almela, E., Tuya, F., Mazarrasa, I., Garmendia, J. M., Otero, X. L., Inostroza, K., Pagès, J. F., Mendez-Martínez, G., Fernández, E., Sousa, A. I., Camacho, A., Ballesteros, E., Barañano, C., Belshe, F., Bernabeu, I., Brun, F. G., Camacho-Santamans, A., Delgado, A., Dahl, M., Duarte, C. M., Espino, F., Franco, J., Freitas, M. da C., Garcia-Orellana, J., Garrigós, B., Gomis, E., Haroun, R., Hernandez, I., Juanes, J. A., Leiva-Dueñas, C., Lavery, P., Lillebø, A. I., Lopes, V., Majtenyi-Hill, C., Marco-Mendez, C., Martins, M., Monnier, B., Morant, D., Montero, N., Neto, J. M., Ondiviela, B., Peralta, G., Picazo, A., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Rochera, C., Román, M., Santos, I. R., Santos, R., Serrano, E., Soler, M., Yau Yau, Y., Weitzmann, B., Zribi, I., & Mateo, M. Á.
Laicher, D. K., Liu, L., Benkendorff, K., Johnston, S. G., Ferguson, A., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Borrow, B. & Maher, D. T.
Chen, X., Santos, I. R., McKenzie, T., Wang, F., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Cotovicz Jr, L. C., Holloway, C., Yau, Y. Y., Hu, S. & Li, L.
McKenzie, T., Majtényi-Hill, C., Henriksson, L., Ljungberg, W., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Cotovicz Jr., L. C., Marquez Lencina Avila, J., Mitschke, N., Böttcher, M. E., Szymczycha, B., Ulfsbo, A., Tomer, A. S., Cardis, T., Hall, P. O. J., Holloway, C., Rodriguez Puig, J., Börjesson, S., Yau, Y. Y. Y., Zhao, S., Cheung, H. L. S., Bonaglia, S., Politi, T., Zetterholm, L., Verbücheln, N., Schmiedinger, I., Rehder, G., Dittmar, T., Tysklind, M., Inostroza, P., Tronholm, A., & Santos, I. R.
Scott-Askin, S., Santos, I. R., Albert, G., Asplund, M. E., Deyanova, D., Forsberg, S. C., Ricart A. M., Gullström, M., Björk, M. & Reithmaier, G. M. S.
Graversen, A. E. L., Lønborg, C., Addamo, A. M., Pedersen, S. G., Chemello, S., Alejo, I., Apostolaki, E. T., Asplund, M. E., Austin, W. E. N., Berov, D., Berto, D., Björk, M., Black, K., Bobchev, N., Bonaglia, S., Borgersen, G., Bouma, T., Costello, M. J., Dahl, M., Diaz-Almela, E., Dimitriou, P. D., Duarte, C. M., Dueñas, C. L., Efthymiadis, P. T., Elosegui, I. M., Espinosa, M. R., Filipsson, H. L., Fontela, M., Fredriksen, S., Frigstad, H., Gagnon, K., Garcia-Escudero, C. A., Giani, M., Grouhel-Pellouin, A., Guerra, R., Gullström, M., Gundersen, H., Hancke, K., Majtényi-Hill, C., Hunt, C., Inostroza, K., Karakassis, I., Karamfilov, V., Klayn, S., Koziorowska, K., Kuliński, K., Lavery, P., Lenstra, W. K., Lillebø, A. I., Logemann, E., Magni, P., Marbà, N., Marco-Mendez, C., Martins, M., Mateo, M. A., Monnier, B., Mueller, P., Neto, J. M., Papageorgiou, N., de Rezende, C. E., Pardo, J. C. F., Peña, J. A. J. de la, Pergent, G., Piñeiro-Juncal, N., Preston, J., Rampazzo, F., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Reusch, T. B. H., Reynolds, S., Ricart, A. M., Santos, R., de los Santos, C. B., Santos, I. R., Serrano, E., Serrano, O., Slomp, C. P., Smeaton, C., Soler, M., Sousa, A. I., Spiegel, T., Stevenson, A., Thormar, J., Trannum, H. C., van Helmond, N. A. G. M., Paradis, S., Vizzini, S., Ward, E. A., Yau, Y. Y. Y., Zakhama-Sraieb, R., Zribi, I., Zygadlowska, O. M., & Jensen, D. K.
Jatobá-Junior, A. A., Hatje, V., Masque, P., Rezende, C. E., Cabral, A., Yau, Y. Y., Barreira, J., Reithmaier, G. M. S, & Santos I. R.
Reithmaier, G. M. S., Maher, D. T., Holloway, C., Correa, R. E., & Santos, I. R.
Yau, Y. Y., Cabral, A., Reithmaier, G., Cotovicz Jr, L. C., Barreira, J., Abril, G., Morana, C., Borges, A. V., Machado, W., Godoy, J. M., Bonaglia, S., & Santos, I. R.
Cabral, A., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Yau, Y. Y., Cotovicz Jr, L. C., Barreira, J., Viana, B., Hayden, J., Bouillon, S., Brandini, N., Hatje, V., de Rezende, C. E., Fonseca, A. L., & Santos, I. R.
Cabral, A., Yau, Y., Reithmaier, G. M. S, Cotovicz Jr, L. C., Barreira, J., Broström, G., Viana, B., Fonseca, A. L., & Santos, I. R.
Adame, M. F., Cormier, N., Taillardat, P., Iram, N., Rovai, A., Sloey, T. M., Yando, E. S., Blanco-Libreros, J. F., Arnaud, M., Jennerjahn, T., Lovelock, C. E., Friess, D., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Buelow, C. A., Muhammad-Nor, S. M., Twilley, R. R., & Ribeiro, R. A.
Reithmaier, G. M. S., Cabral, A., Akhand, A., Bogard, M. J., Borges, A. V., Bouillon, S., Burdige, D. J., Call, M., Chen, N., Chen, X., Cotovicz, L. C., Eagle, M. J., Kristensen, E., Kroeger, K. D., Lu, Z., Maher, D. T., Pérez-Lloréns, J. L., Ray, R., Taillardat, P., Tamborski, J. J., Upstill-Goddard, R. C., Wang, F., Wang, Z. A., Xiao, K., Yau, Y. Y. Y., & Santos, I. R.
Yau, Y. Y., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Majtényi‐Hill, C., Serrano, O., Piñeiro‐Juncal, N., Dahl, M., Mateo, M. A., Bonaglia, S., & Santos, I. R.
Majtényi-Hill, C., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Yau, Y. Y., Serrano, O., Piñeiro-Juncal, N., & Santos, I. R.
Walden, L., Serrano, O., Zhang, M., Shen, Z., Sippo, J. Z., Bennett, L. T., Maher, D. T., Lovelock, C. E., Macreadie, P. I., Gorham, C., Lafratta, A., Lavery, P. S., Mosley, L., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Kelleway, J. J., Dittmann, S., Adame, F., Duarte, C. M., Gallagher, J. B., Waryszak, P., Carnell, P., Kasel, S., Hinko-Najera, N., Hassan, R., Goddard, M., Jones, A. R., & Viscarra Rossel, R. A.
Reithmaier, G. M. S., Johnston, S. G., Junginger, T., Goddard, M. M., Sanders, C. J., Hutley, L. B., Ho, D. T., & Maher, D. T.
Chen, X., Santos I. R., Call, M., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Maher, D. T., Holloway, C., Wadnerkar, P. D., Gómez-Álvarez, P., & Sanders, C. J., Li, L.
Reithmaier, G.M. S., Ho, D.T., Johnston, S. G., & Maher, D. T.
Reithmaier, G. M. S., Chen, X., Santos, I.R., Drexl, M.J., Holloway, C., Call, M., Gómez Álvarez, P., Euler, S., & Maher, D.T.
Sippo, J. Z., Santos I. R., Sanders C. J., Gadd, P., Hua, Q., Lovelock, C., Santini, N. S., Johnston, S. G., Harada, Y., Reithmaier, G. M. S., & Maher, D. T.
Jeffrey, L. C., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Sippo, J. Z., Johnston, S. G., Tait, D. R., Harada, Y., & Maher, D. T.
Reithmaier, G. M. S., Knorr, K. H., Arnhold, S., Planer-Friedrich, B., & Schaller, J.
Lohmayer, R., Reithmaier, G. M. S., Bura-Nakic, E., & Planer-Friedrich, B.
Germany · Australia · Sweden
Research and academic training in environmental science and coastal biogeochemistry across Germany, Australia and Sweden.
Lecturer in marine chemistry and biogeochemical cycles, doctoral supervisor, EGU blue-carbon session convenor and invited speaker at international ocean-carbon meetings.
University of Gothenburg · Sweden
University of Gothenburg · Sweden
Southern Cross University · Australia
University of Bayreuth · Germany
University of Bayreuth · Germany
Doctoral · Master’s · Bachelor’s projects
I supervise doctoral, Master’s and Bachelor’s projects in marine chemistry, coastal carbon cycling and environmental change. Projects combine hands-on fieldwork, laboratory measurements and data analysis.
Ask about a projectCarbon sequestration, carbonate chemistry and sustainable aquaculture.
Bachelor’s / Master’sWarming experiments, alkalinity and the future of seaweed habitats.
Project availability and timing should be confirmed directly.
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