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Current research
Dr. Kraus is collaborating with Dr. Chris Solomon, Dr. Emily Bernhardt at Cornell University, and Dr. Heili Lowman at the University of Washington to study the role of bryophyte communities in northeastern streams. Using data from sampling throughout the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and the White Mountains in New Hampshire, they seek to model the effect of bryophytes on river network-scale processes.
Previous research
Dr. Kraus received her PhD from the University of Alaska Fairbanks working with Dr. Jeremy Jones. In her dissertation research, she focused on dissolved inorganic carbon dynamics in boreal forest headwater streams. This research described terrestrial sources of inorganic carbon to streams, and evaluated long-term trends in stream chemistry and CO2 evasion to assess the impact of discontinuous permafrost distribution and permafrost thaw on aquatic carbon cycling.