01/2012:  Senior Lecturer in Water Sciences, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

10/2007 – 01/2012:  Lecturer in Environmental Geoscience at the School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, Keele University, UK

04/2006 – 10/2007:  Research Fellow at the “Centre for Sustainable Water Management” of the “Lancaster Environmental Centre”, University of Lancaster, (Fellowship of the German Research Council “Hyporheic Zone Processes - Understanding the role of the dynamic impacts of hyporheic zone processes on water balance and nutrient dynamics at the groundwater - surface water interface”)

09/2005 – 04/2006:  Postdoctoral Research Associate at the “Centre for Sustainable Water Management” of the “Lancaster Environmental Centre”, University of Lancaster

07/2005 – 09/2005:  Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Potsdam, Germany 

05/2005 - 07/2005:  Postdoctoral Research Associate at the “Centre for Sustainable Water Management” of the “Lancaster Environmental Centre”, University of Lancaster

10/2000 – 03/2005:   Research Assistant at the Department of Climatology & Hydrology, University of Potsdam, Germany (from 01/2002 – 03/2005 employed in joint research project “River Basin Management at the Havel-River”)

01/1999 – 09/1999:  Student Research Assistant at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

• MSc Hydrogeology
• MSc River and Environmental Management
• BSc Environmental Geoscience

Liliana Rose (2012-) Combining novel tracer approaches and coupled groundwater-surface water models for quantifying patterns of aquifer-river exchange at sub-catchment scales. NERC funded, co-supervisors: D.M. Hannah, J. Fleckenstein (UFZ Leipzig)

Muneera Alharbi (2012-) Impact of climate change on water resources in Saudi Arabia. Scholarship of the Saudi-Arabian Government, co-supervisors: D.M. Hannah, M. Widmann

Safieh Javadinejad (2012-) Improved river basin management and adaption strategies through better understanding of climate change impacts, co-supervisors: D.M. Hannah, M. Widmann

John Weatherill (2010-) Novel approaches for tracing multi-component reactive transport and contaminant transformation patterns at aquifer-river interfaces. Environment Agency, Keele EPSAM, Co-supervisor: Nigel Cassidy Keele

Amir Levy (2010-) The effect of glacier fluctuation on shallow hydrogeological systems of glaciers in South East Iceland. Keele EPSAM, co-supervisors: Z. Robinson (Keele), R. Waller (Keele)

Dr. Krause’s research investigating the impacts of global environmental change on hydrological fluxes, biogeochemical cycling and ecohydrological feedback functions in complex landscapes with coupled groundwater-surface water systems. His work particularly focuses on the analysis and quantification of multi-component reactive transport processes at aquifer-river interfaces and how these are influenced by changes in land-use and climate.

This research combines novel modelling techniques with the development of innovative experimental technologies for investigating the interlinked cycling of nutrients and reactive transport of contaminants. He is applying novel distributed sensor network technology together with reactive “smart tracers” for investigating the efficiency of interconnected nitrogen and carbon cycling in reactive “hot-spots” and “hot-moments” at aquifer-river interfaces in dependency of microbial metabolic activity and carbon respiration rates. Moreover, he is developing adaptive modelling strategies for coupled simulation of groundwater and surface water flow at catchments scale which are applied for analysing the implications of environmental change on water transport and nutrient conditions in groundwater and surface waters.

In addition to reactive transport and transformation in coupled groundwater-surface water systems, Dr. Krause’s research interests extend to the ecohydrological implications of nutrient cycling and contaminant transport at aquifer-river interfaces as well as the development of management strategies and political instruments to promote the attenuation potential in these systems.

Current and ongoing research projects include: 

• Smart tracers and distributed sensor networks for quantifying the metabolic activity in streambed reactivity hotspots (2011-2012, funded by NERC)
• Risk assessment and potential for attenuation of Trichloroethylene in hyporheic sediments (funded by Environment Agency, EPSAM, 2010-2013)
• Developing the use of redox sensitive tracers for quantifying metabolic activity in stream sediments (funded by the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research 2011-2012)
• Hyporheic Zone Processes - Understanding the role of the dynamic impacts of hyporheic zone processes on water balance and nutrient dynamics at the groundwater - surface water interface (funded by the German Research Council, DFG, 2006-2008)
• Quantifying radiation efficiency by Fibre-optic DTS (iK-Fund, 2011-2012)
• Novel distributed sensor networks for tracing aquifer-river exchange flow patterns (funded by EPSRC & RGS/IBG, 2009-2010)
• UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Knowledge Transfer Network on “Groundwater-surface water interactions and hyporheic zone processes” 2007-2009 (joint Biogeochemistry & Ecohydrology working group leader together with D.M. Hannah, U Birmingham)

• Supervision of visiting research students: Project management, coordination and supervision of EU funded (Leonardo Programme) visiting research students and visiting PhD students
• Committee Member of the European Geoscience Union Sub-Divisions on Eco-Hydrology, Wetlands & Estuaries and Catchment Hydrology
• Editor Ecohydrology (2011-), Guest editor Water Resources Research “New modeling approaches and novel experimental technologies for improving the understanding of process dynamics at the aquifer - surface water interface” (2012), Guest editor Ecohydrology “Hydrology – Ecology Interfaces” (2011), Advances in Water Research “Large scale interactions between rivers and aquifers” (2010), Hydrological Processes 23 (13) “Hyporheic Zone Hydrology - Processes at the groundwater - surface water interface” (2009)
• Consultancy activities for international industry projects including: Underground Coal Gasification Partnership (UCGP, Coal India, Clean Coal UK, European Commission), German water resources in a changing climate (German Weather Service)
• Memberships: European Geoscience Union (EGU), American Geoscience Union (AGU), International Association for Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), International Commission on Ground Water (ICGW), International Commission on Water Quality (ICWQ), British Hydrological Society (BHS), Institute for Civil Engineers (ICE), Underground Coal Gasification Association (UCGA), UK Higher Education Academy, H₂O-e.V. Charity for water resource management in developing countries

Selected publications since 2009

Krause S., T. Blume, N.J. Cassidy. (2012). Application of Fibre-optic DTS to identify streambed controls on aquifer-river exchange fluxes in lowland rivers. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 9, 337–378

Krause S., Munz M.,Tecklenburg C., Binley A. (2012). The impact of groundwater forcing on hyporheic exchange - Reply to Comment on Reducing monitoring gaps at the aquifer-river interface Hydrological Processes, 26, 1589–1592

Krause S., Hannah D.M., Fleckenstein J.H., Heppell C.M., Pickup R., Pinay G., Robertson A.L., Wood P.J. (2011). Inter-disciplinary perspectives on processes in the hyporheic zone. Ecohydrology Journal. 4(4), 481-499

Munz M., Krause S., Tecklenburg C., Binley A., (2011). Reducing monitoring gaps at the aquifer-river interface by modelling groundwater-surface water exchange flow patterns. Hydrological Processes, 25 (23), 3547–3562. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8080

Krause S., Hannah D.M., Wood P.J., Sadler J. (2011). Hydrology and Ecology interfaces: processes and interactions in wetland, riparian and groundwater-based ecosystems. Ecohydrology Journal 4(4), 476-480 4(4), 476-480

Krause S., Hannah D.M., T. Blume. (2011). Heat transport patterns at pool-riffle sequences of an UK lowland stream. Ecohydrology Journal 4(4), 549-563, DOI: 10.1002/eco.199 4(4), 549-563, DOI: 10.1002/eco.199

Fleckenstein J.H., Krause S., Hannah D.M.H., Boano F. (2010). Groundwater-surface water interactions: New methods and models to improve understanding of processes and dynamics. Advances in Water Resources. 33 (11), 1291-1295

Krause S., Hannah DM., Fleckenstein JH. (2009). Hyporheic hydrology: interactions at the groundwater-surface water interface. Hydrological Processes. 23 (15), 2103-2107

Krause S., Heathwaite AL., Binley A., Keenan P. (2009). Nitrate concentration changes along the groundwater – surface water interface of a small Cumbrian river. Hydrological Processes. 23 (15), 2195-2211. doi: 10.1002/hyp.7213

Krause S., Habeck A., Bronstert A., Zehe E. (2009). The impact of groundwater – surface water interactions on the nitrate retention of a riparian floodplain in North Germany. Journal of River Basin Management. 4, 1-14 .

Kaeser D., Binley A., Heathwaite L., Krause S. (2009).Spatio-temporal variations of hyporheic flow in a riffle-step-pool sequence. Hydrological Processes. 23 (15), 2138 - 2149