Bernie Krause is an American musician and ecologist. He founded Wild Sanctuary, an organization dedicated to the recording and archiving of natural soundscapes, is an author, soundscape recordist, and bio-acoustician, who coined the term biophony and as a founder of the field, was germane to the definition and structure of soundscape ecology. Krause holds a PhD in creative (sound) arts with an internship in bioacoustics from Union Institute & University in Cincinnati.