Faculty Profiles

Dr. Samantha Marie Krause

Assistant Professor — Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies

ELA 139

phone: (512) 245-3912

smk135@txstate.edu

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

Brouwer Burg, M., Harrison-Buck, E., & Krause, S. M. (2023). Raising the “BAAR” through improved method and theory: Reinvigorating regional research on Archaic occupation in Northern. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 18.
Garrison, T., Thompson, A., Krause, S. M., Eshleman, S., Fernandez-Diaz, J. C., Baldwin, D., & Cambranes, R. (2022). Assessing the lidar revolution in the Maya lowlands: A geographic approach to understanding feature classification accuracy. Progress Is Physical Geography, (Special Issue on Maya Region).
Bhattacharya, T., Krause, S. M., Penny, D., & Wahl, D. (2022). Progress Report: Drought and Water Management in Maya Society. Progress in Physical Geography.
Damick, A., Krause, S. M., & Rosen, A. (2022). Building resilient landscapes in a semi-arid watershed: Anthropogenic and natural burning histories in Late Holocene Tesuque Creek, northern New Mexico. Holocene.
Li, Y., Krause, S., McLendon, A., & Jo, I. (2022). Teaching a geography field methods course amid the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections and lessons learned. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2022.2041571

Award / Honor Nominee: Nominee for the s Presidential Awards for Excellence Teaching Award at the Assistant Professor level, Texas State University. February 2023 - July 2023
Award / Honor Recipient: INQUA 2023 Congress Early Career Researcher Travel Award, International Union For Quaternary Research. February 1, 2023 - July 31, 2023
Award / Honor Recipient: 2021 Paper of the Year Award (Ellen Mosley Thompson Award), American Association of Geographers, Paleoenvironmental Change Specialty Group. 2021
Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor for Spring 2020, Texas State University Alumni Association. 2020
Award / Honor Recipient: INQUA Congress Fellowship Program Travel Award (Dublin, Ireland), INQUA Congress. July 2019

Krause, Samantha Marie. Environmental changes in an ancient agroecosystem: a geoarchaeological approach to understanding wetlands in coastal Belize., Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2023, Funded: January 2024 - Present). Grant.
Meitzen, Kimberly Michelle (Principal), Krause, Samantha Marie (Co-Principal). Geomorphic and sediment analysis of the upper Brazos River in response to saltcedar control, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, State, $80102. (Submitted: 2022, Funded: 2023 - 2024). Grant.
Li, Yanan (Principal), Krause, Samantha Marie. Environmental history in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, TXST Division of Research, College of Liberal Arts, and Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University, $3000. (Funded: March 9, 2023 - July 31, 2024). Grant.
Meitzen, Kimberly Michelle (Principal), Krause, Samantha Marie (Co-Principal). Geomorphic characteristics of the upper Brazos River in response to invasive saltcedar management, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, State, $38160. (Submitted: 2021, Funded: 2022). Grant.
Krause, Samantha Marie. Reconstructing hydrology and management of an ancient reservoir in southern New Mexico., Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Texas State University, $7992. (Submitted: October 2021, Funded: January 21, 2022 - May 31, 2023). Grant.

Geo and Env. Studies Faculty Senate Liaison

Faculty Senate

January 2024-Present

Undergraduate Advisor

GTU (Gamma Theta Upsilon) Geography Honor Society Faculty Advisor

August 2020-Present

Past Chair

Geoarchaeology Division, Geological Society of America

October 2023-October 2025

Member

Graduate Committee, Geography Department

August 2023-May 2024

Chair

Honors Committee: Paleoenvironmental Change Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

September 2022-December 2023