Ken Krauss, Ph.D.
Ken Krauss is a Research Ecologist at the USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2004
M.S., Forestry, Louisiana State University, 1997
B.S., Biology, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1994
RESEARCH
Ken Krauss' research spans several habitats, from mangroves to tidal freshwater forested wetlands and marshes. His research takes a multi-tiered approach to understanding eco-physiological processes in coastal wetland forests; defining gas exchange between the soil and atmosphere, and among the leaf, tree, and atmosphere. Research has defined thresholds to tidal freshwater forested wetland habitat change in the face of persistent environmental drivers (esp. sea level rise and salinity), defined the potential of forested wetlands to influence water cycling in coastal areas, and has begun to establish the potential of other wetland types to contribute to water conservation, especially under drought and perennial salinization. Krauss also focuses on the vulnerability of coastal swamp forests and mangroves to sea-level rise, and on how science can inform management and restoration activity within the coastal zone.
BACKGROUND
He has been a scientist with the federal government since 1997, first with the USDA Forest Service in Stoneville, Mississippi and, then, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he studied sedimentation, systematics, regeneration, growth, invasion biology, and ecophysiology of Pacific island forested wetlands in the Federated States of Micronesia and Hawaii. Krauss began working at the USGS National Wetlands Research Center in 2001 (renamed to USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, or WARC, in 2015), where he maintains an expertise in forest ecology and ecophysiology, and serves as one of WARC's climate change scientists focusing on mangroves and tidal freshwater forested wetlands.
2004-present, Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana
2001-2004, Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana
1997-2001, Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Honolulu, Hawaii
1996-1997, Ecophysiologist Technician, USDA Forest Service, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Forestry, Stoneville, Mississippi
1995-1996, Graduate Research Assistant, Louisiana State University, School of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Science and Products
Plant-plant interactions in a subtropical mangrove-to-marsh transition zone: effects of environmental drivers
Defining the next generation modeling of coastal ecotone dynamics in response to global change
Fine root productivity varies along nitrogen and phosphorus gradients in high-rainfall mangrove forests of Micronesia
Factors influencing CO2 and CH4 emissions from coastal wetlands in the Liaohe Delta, northeast China
Proximity to encroaching coconut palm limits native forest water use and persistence on a Pacific atoll
Soil greenhouse gas emissions and carbon budgeting in a short-hydroperiod floodplain wetland
Assessing stand water use in four coastal wetland forests using sapflow techniques: annual estimates, errors and associated uncertainties
Approximations of stand water use versus evapotranspiration from three mangrove forests in southwest Florida, USA
Sediment accretion in tidal freshwater forests and oligohaline marshes of the Waccamaw and Savannah Rivers, USA
Wetlands: Tidal
Woody vegetation communities of tidal freshwater swamps in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida (US) with comparisons to similar systems in the US and South America
Water use characteristics of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) communities along an ecotone with marsh at a northern geographical limit
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Plant-plant interactions in a subtropical mangrove-to-marsh transition zone: effects of environmental drivers
Defining the next generation modeling of coastal ecotone dynamics in response to global change
Fine root productivity varies along nitrogen and phosphorus gradients in high-rainfall mangrove forests of Micronesia
Factors influencing CO2 and CH4 emissions from coastal wetlands in the Liaohe Delta, northeast China
Proximity to encroaching coconut palm limits native forest water use and persistence on a Pacific atoll
Soil greenhouse gas emissions and carbon budgeting in a short-hydroperiod floodplain wetland
Assessing stand water use in four coastal wetland forests using sapflow techniques: annual estimates, errors and associated uncertainties
Approximations of stand water use versus evapotranspiration from three mangrove forests in southwest Florida, USA
Sediment accretion in tidal freshwater forests and oligohaline marshes of the Waccamaw and Savannah Rivers, USA
Wetlands: Tidal
Woody vegetation communities of tidal freshwater swamps in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida (US) with comparisons to similar systems in the US and South America
Water use characteristics of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) communities along an ecotone with marsh at a northern geographical limit
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.