Dr. Krause graduated with a BSc in Geo-ecology from the University of Tübingen in Germany and received his MSc degree in Marine System Science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He earned a PhD in 2021 as member of Dr. Elizabeth Watson’s Coastal Change Lab at Drexel University. Following a postdoctoral appointment with Dr. James Fourqurean at FIU, he is currently Assistant Research Professor at the Institute of Environment studying the effects of coastal environmental change on ecosystem services delivered by seagrasses.
Dr. Krause is a lab member of the Seagrass Ecosystems Research Lab. He is a co-lead of the Vegetation Group of the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-term Ecological Research (FCE-LTER) site and part of the Coordinated Global Research Assessment of Seagrass Systems (C-GRASS) group of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research. Krause co-leads the project management team of the Caribbean Carbon Accounting in Seagrass (CariCAS) network and is member of UNESCO/Conservation International’s Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group.
research interests
Dr. Krause is a coastal biogeochemist and seascape ecologist. Focused on coastal vegetated ecosystems, he studies spatio-temporal dynamics of seagrasses, salt marshes, and mangroves using remote sensing techniques, field-based sampling, and predictive modeling. His methodological approach is grounded in a range of disciplines, including environmental chemistry, sedimentology, geospatial analysis, time-series analysis, and bioinformatics. With his research, he strives to uncover how anthropogenic impacts and natural variability affect coastal processes and biogeochemical cycles.
