Johannes 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.

Krause graduated with a BSc in Geo-ecology from the University of Tübingen in Germany. He received his MSc degree in Marine System Science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he studied physiological rates of coralline algae. He joined Dr. Elizabeth Watson’s Coastal Change Lab at Drexel University where he earned a PhD in 2021. Following a postdoctoral appointment with Dr. James Fourqurean at Florida International University, he is currently Assistant Research Professor at FIU studying the effects of coastal environmental change on ecosystem services delivered by seagrasses.

Krause is a lab member of the Seagrass Ecosystems Research Lab at FIU’s Institute of Environment. 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.

His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Fauna & Flora International, Society of Wetland Scientists, The Wetland Foundation, Geological Society of America, American Philosophical Society, Association of American Geographers, William L. McLean III Fellowship, Claudio Elia Memorial Fellowship, The Gilchrist Trust, The Royal Geographical Society, and Glasgow Natural History Society.