Faculty Profiles

Brouwer Burg, M., Harrison-Buck, E., & Krause, S. M. (2025). Sustainable legacies of the Preceramic Archaic Maya: Resiliency strategies for environmental and climatic change. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 19, 25–35.

Krause, S. M., Brouwer Burg, M., & White, M. (2025). Reconstructing Wetlands in Northern Coastal Belize : Results from the January and May 2023 Seasons. In Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2023 Field Seasons Occasional Paper, No. 12 (Vol. 12). Belize: Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize.

Brouwer Burg, M., & Krause, S. M. (2025). Investigating a Possible Agricultural Field Complex West of Chau Hiix ( Operations 70 and 71 ). In Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2023 Field Seasons, Occasional Paper, No. 12 (Vol. 12). Belize: Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize.

Brouwer Burg, M., Krause, S. M., Haverland, F., & Harrison Buck, E. (2025). Reconnaissance of Archaic Occupations in and Around Crooked Tree Island. In Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2023 Field Seasons Occasional Paper, No. 12 (Vol. 12). Belize: Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize.

Harrison-Buck, E., Krause, S. M., Brouwer Burg, M., Willis, M., Perrotti, A., & Bailey, K. (2024). Large-Scale Pre-Columbian Fisheries in the Wetlands of the Eastern Maya Lowlands. Science Advances.

Krause, S. M., White, M., Brouwer Burg, M., & Harrison-Buck, E. (2024). Revisiting the Hydrology of Chau Hiix: new geoarchaeological investigations focused on prehistoric water management around this Maya site in Belize. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2024am-403398

Meitzen, K. M., & Krause, S. M. (2024). Geomorphic and Sediment Analysis of the Upper Brazos River in Response to Saltcedar Control  (CA-0004627) (p. 14). Austin, Texas: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

Sandweiss, D., Krause, S. M., & Luchsinger, H. (2024). The history and role of Geoarchaeology in the archaeological sciences: lessons learned and future goals in curriculum development. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2024am-403600

Carter, N. P., Krause, S., & Lozano, J. (2024). Striking Distance: Investigating the Epigraphy and Geography of a Late Classic Maya War. Ancient Mesoamerica, (35), 304–318.

Terry, R., & Krause, S. M. (2024, January 21). Chapter 165-1 Field Geochemistry. In Encyclopedia Earth Sciences, Allan S. Gilbert et al. (Eds): Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology Second Edition. Springer.

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.

Brouwer Burg, M., Krause, S. M., & Haverland, F. (2023). Excavation at the Chert Production Area of Gloria Camp (Operation 64). In Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2022 Field Season. Belmopan, Belize: nstitute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize.

Krause, S. M., White, M., Olivier, G., & Greenwald, D. (2023). Water management at Creekside Village archaeological site, Tularosa New Mexico: multiproxy reconstructions of a Mesilla phase reservoir. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2023am-394476

White, M., Krause, S. M., Holliday, V., & Greenwald, D. (2023). A preliminary investigation of Holocene hydrology using alluvial sequences in the Rio Tularosa, New Mexico. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2023am-395532

Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., & Krause, S. M. (2023). 2022 Kirk Bryan Award: The Eklu’um Paleosol, Groundwater, and Climate: Multiproxy Models of Ancient Maya Wetland Field Formation in the Maya Lands. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2023am-390345

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.

Meitzen, K. M., & Kause, S. (2022). Geomorphic Characteristics of the Upper Brazos River in Response to Invasive Saltcedar Management (CA-0002717). Austin, Texas: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

Krause, S. M., Damick, A., & Weaver, R. (2022). ARCHAIC LANDSCAPES IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO: A GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022am-379635

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

Krause, S. M., Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Cook, D., Bozarth, S., Valdez, F., & Guderjan, T. (2021). Tropical wetland persistence through the Anthropocene: Multiproxy reconstruction of environmental change in a Maya agroecosystem. Anthropocene, 34. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2021.100284

Beach, S., Beach, T., Doyle, C., Krause, S. M., & Smith, B. (2021). A SYNTHESIS OF CARBON ISOTOPE RATIOS OF SOIL PROFILES IN THE MAYA LOWLANDS. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2021am-370786

Krause, S. M., & Damick, A. (2021). Reconstructing mid-late Holocene soil sequences and anthropogenic impacts within the Rio Grande watershed, northern New Mexico. In Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2021am-365655

Sekhon, N., Beach, T., Krause, S. M., & Eshleman, S. (2020). Understanding climate trends in Central America through practical problem-based learning. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2020.1833318

Krause, S. M. (2020). Geoarchaeology Investigations in the Western Lagoon. In Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2018 and 2019 Field Seasons. Belmopan, Belize: Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.

Guderjan, T., Kwoka, J., Hanratty, C., Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Krause, S. M., … Doyle, C. (2020). Early Onset Anthropocene: Control of the Landscape by the Ancient Maya in Northwestern Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 17.

Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Dunning, N., & Krause, S. M. (2020). Paleoecology, Soil, and Water in Maya History. In The Maya World. (pp. 229–249). Routledge.

Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Krause, S. M., Guderjan, T., Valdez, Fred, Jr., Fernandez-Diaz, J. C., … Doyle, C. (2019). Ancient Maya wetland fields revealed under tropical forest canopy from laser scanning and multiproxy evidence. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 116(43), 21469–21477. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910553116

Krause, S. M., Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Cook, D., Islebe, G., Palacios-Fest, M. R., … Guderjan, T. H. (2019). Wetland geomorphology and paleoecology near Akab Muclil, Rio Bravo floodplain of the Belize coastal plain. GEOMORPHOLOGY, 331, 146–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.10.015

Krause, S. M., Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Guderjan, T. H., Valdez, Fred, Jr., Eshleman, S., … Bozarth, S. R. (2019). Ancient Maya wetland management in two watersheds in Belize: Soils, water, and paleoenvironmental change. Quaternary International, 502, 280–295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.10.029

Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Krause, S. M., & Doyle, C. (2019). An Early Anthropocene Analog: The Geomorphology and Hydrology of the Rio Bravo Watershed in the Belize Tropics. In Paleobiodiversity and Tectono-Sedimentary Records in the Mediterranean Tethys and Related Eastern Areas (pp. 11–14). Springer.

Beach, T., Ulmer, A., Cook, D., Brennan, M. L., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Doyle, C., … Terry, R. (2018). Geoarchaeology and tropical forest soil catenas of northwestern Belize. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL, 463, 198–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.02.031

Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Cook, D., Krause, S. M., Doyle, C., Eshleman, S., … Ward, S. (2018). Stability and instability on Maya Lowlands tropical hillslope soils. GEOMORPHOLOGY, 305, 185–208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.07.027

Luzzadder-Beach, S., Beach, T., Garrison, T., Houston, S., Doyle, J., Roman, E., … Flood, J. (2017). Paleoecology and Geoarchaeology at El Palmar and the El Zotz Region, Guatemala. GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 32(1), 90–106. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21587

Luzzadder-Beach, S., Beach, T., Hutson, S., & Krause, S. M. (2016). Sky-earth, lake-sea: climate and water in Maya history and landscape. ANTIQUITY, 90(350), 426–442.

Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Krause, S. M., Walling, S., Dunning, N., Flood, J., … Valdez, F. (2015). “Mayacene” floodplain and wetland formation in the Rio Bravo Watershed of northwestern Belize. HOLOCENE, 25(10), 1612–1626. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615591713

Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Guderjan, T., & Krause, S. M. (2015). The floating gardens of Chan Cahal: Soils, water, and human interactions. CATENA, 132, 151–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.12.017

Beach, T., Luzzadder-Beach, S., Cook, D., Dunning, N., Kennett, D. J., Krause, S. M., … Valdez, F. (2015). Ancient Maya impacts on the Earth’s surface: An Early Anthropocene analog? QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 124, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.028