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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Spending a very hot day in the field yesterday with team ANK (National Park & @rptu.bsky.social ), marking the first monitoring plots for project KoNaS-WK 🚩🔨🤩 www.nationalpark-wattenmeer.de/wissensbeitr...

A group of researchers standing in a grassland. Some are carrying equipment like a metal detector and marking sticks. The sky is blue and almost everyone looks like it's too hot outside.

A group of cows is standing in a grassland. A researcher is knwwling down in front of the cows. The approach the person curiously. An orange stick in the ground is marking a plot for later measurements.

A researcher is using a hammer to put an orange and white marker stick further into the gound in a grassland. Another researcher is holding the stick. Two more researchers are using a measuring tape to find the right spot for the next stick.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For the first time since I started working for the National Park I visited Spiekeroog. Why haven't I gone there before? Because the salt marshes amomg the most natural we have! 🤩 No need to improve any management decisions. Just lean back an let nature do the work 👍

A dune landscape with the treed inthe background and yellow flowers in the foreground.
A sign stands next to a little pathway. The sign says Nationalpark. It consists of two wooden posts with rusty metal letters spelling the word.

A saltmarsh with a patch of bare soil. The sslt marshhas many purple flowers. The sky is blue.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Happy #WorldRewildingDay! The Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park's motto has been 'let nature be nature' for 40 years. We now also focus on actively restoring natural processes to salt marshes which have been affected by articial drainage ditches, e.g. through topsoil removal.

A salt marsh restoration site where restoration is in progress. We see a large area of open soil. It's muddy and there are some puddles. At the edges there are large heaps of sediment which has been removed. These will be taken away later.

We see a restored salt marsh. There is a meandering salt marsh creek filled with some water. On the right side of the creek pioneer vegetation has established. On the left side there is an open mudflat area.

A closer look at the salt marsh shows a very small creek whcih as formed naturally. The edges are covered by glasswort / Salicornia europea. The picture was taken close to the ground, so the small plants appear almost like a dense forest along a mudder river.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Happy World Wetlands Day! I'm very proud to be able to contribute to the protection of ~10k ha of salt marshes in the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park with my work. They are a very valuable habitat for plants and animal species, and important carbon sink. #WorldWetlandsDay #WWD2026 #Wetlands

A salt marsh with a varierty of plant species including grasses and herbs.

A large creek in a salt marsh. It is low tide, so there are some mudflats visible in the creek. the creek banks are vegetated with a tall grass typical for salt marshes. Two people stand in the background looking at the creek.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

It's migratory bird days at the Wadden Sea! Today I joined the team at the tower in Varel. Let's see whether we can spot as many species as last year 🤞😎

A salt marsh and inundated mudflat in the background. In the foreground a tlescope is set up on a scaffolding tower.

A scaffolding tower in a salt marsh. A banner says 'bird tower'

A list of bird species. Tickmarks indicate which birds have been spotted this year and last year.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Very cool view on my 'way to work' today.

View from a helicopter on a mudflat and salt marsh area with creeks.

View from a helicopter on a mudflat area with creeks.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A fun day on Langeoog island today 😎 with three students from Greifswald University. They will collect data for their dissertation projects, which will help us make some management decisions 🤝

Two students examining an area of saltmarsh with silver grey herbaceous plants and purple flowers.

A green salt marsh. The grass is short due to grazing. There are some silver grey herbaceous plants. The sky is blue with some small clouds. Three students are mapping the vegetation.

Detail photo of the purple flowers of sea lavender. A bumblebee is collecting nectar.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I finally managed to visit one of our most interesting saltmarsh restoration sites: the Langwarder Groden. The site is a combination of two restoration methods: opening a small seawall and topsoil removal. Very popular with both wildlife and tourists due to an accessible boardwalk 🐥🦭📸🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️👨‍🦽

A wooden boardwalk through a saltmarsh with salt tolerant plants. Further back there are mudflats. In the background the former seawall us visible.

A salt marsh with tall grass. In the background a large creek connects the site to the sea.

A small creek in a grey mudflat. The mudflat is surrounded by pioneer saltmarsh vegetation

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A bit of spontaneous whale watching in Wilhelmshaven today. A group of harbour porpoises including ond calf 🥰

The fin of a harbour porpoise is visible in the water. A quai can be seen in the background.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

It's biodiversity day in our National Park. Today we're on the island Wangerooge. Let's see how many different species we can find in a day 🦆🦭🦋🐌🐞🌷🌾🌿

Biologist searching for plants in a meadow

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Happy #WorldSaltmarshDay! 🌊🌾🥳 Salt marshes are an important habitat for plants & animals and also help protect the climate and the coast! I loved salt marshes since my first project in 2008 💙. Now I'm responsible for the management of +8400ha in the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Excited to be in sunny Hamburg today 😎 we are meeting with colleagues to discuss the projects in the framework of the 'Federal Action Plan on Nature-based Solutions for Climate and Biodiversity' on the coast. Stay tuned for more news soon!

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Spotted one of our temporary electric fences in the field this week. These are put up by our #nationalpark rangers to protect breeding birds 🐣 in the #saltmarsh from predators ⛔🦊 It's also easy to see we had a very dry spring...

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Sunny day for a field visit yesterday 😎 to look at some of our managed realigment sites where the 'summerdike' was breached close to Dorum-Neufeld

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

New paper out: Hydrology mediates #saltmarsh belowground biomass response to warming 🌊x🌡️=🌾 Very proud of PhD students Caro & Eva and the whole MERIT team

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Had a great day yesterday visiting the 'Leybucht' salt marshes😎🥶 . One of the biggest salt marsh areas in the Wadden Sea.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Happy World Wetlands Day everyone! Here are some of my field work photos from salt marshes 🥰 What's your favourite wetland? 🌱🌏🧪 www.worldwetlandsday.org

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Good luck! 🤞 A trip to the Dongtan salt marshes on Chongming island (close to Shanghai) in 2016 led me to start working on plastic pollution in coastal wetlands. I am hoping it already looks better there than it did 7 years ago.

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Ever wondered how to build an underfloor heating into a salt marsh to simulate climate change? 🤔 Then check out our new paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I wanted to introduce myself on here. Found a fun tool that creates a word cloud from your Google Scholar page. shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc... Easy to see that I 🥰 salt marshes and everything in them #MarineLife #AcademicSky

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

This years 'Coastal Ecology Workshop' is returning to the UK! Join us “Exploring the symbiotic relationship between coastal ecology, geomorphology and economic valuation” in Coltishall, Norfolk. Organised by University of East Anglia and University of Lincoln.

View of a salt marsh on the North Norfolk Coast

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