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Name:  Band, Lawrence E.
Telephone: 919.962.3921; Fax: 919.962.1537
Email: lband@email.unc.edu
Organization:
Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor
Department of Geography
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principal Investigator
Specialty: Ecohydrologic Modeling
Habitat: Forest, Urban
Organism: Not Applicable
Core Area(s):  Movement of Organic, Inorganic Matter (Integrated carbon, water, nutrient cycling)

Education:
B.A. Geography, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, 1977
M.A. Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 1979
Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983

Appointments:
Director, Institute for the Environment, University of North Carolina, 2008-Present
Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, 1998-Present
Chair, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, 2002-2007
Professor, University of Toronto, 1994-1998
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, 1989-1994
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 1987-1989
Assistant Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York, 1983-1987

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Emily S. Bernhardt, Lawrence E. Band, Christopher J. Walsh, and Philip E. Berke, 2008. Understanding, managing, and minimizing urban impacts on surface water nitrogen loading. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, v. 1134, 61-96.

Shields, C., L.E. Band, N. Law, P. Groffman, S. Kaushal, K. Savvas, G. Fisher, K. Belt, 2008. Streamflow Distribution Of Non-Point Source Nitrogen Export From Urban-Rural Catchments tn the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Water Resources Research, v.44, W09416, doi:10.1029/2007WR006360, 2008

Band, L.E., M. Cadenasso, S. Grimmond, M. Grove, S.T. Pickett, 2005. Heterogeneity in Urban Ecosystems: Pattern and Process. Ch. 13 in, Lovett,G.M., C.G. Jones, M.G. Turner, and K.C. Weathers, editors. Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes. Springer-Verlag, NY.

Law, N.L., L.E. Band, J.M. Grove, 2004. Nitrogen input from residential lawn care practices in suburban watersheds in Baltimore County, MD. Journal of Environmental Management 47(5): 737-755.

Tague, C.L., L.E. Band, 2004. RHESSys: Regional Hydro-Ecologic Simulation System: An Object-Oriented Approach to Spatially Distributed Modeling of Carbon, Water, and Nutrient Cycling. Earth Interactions 2004 8: 1-42.

Tenenbaum, D.L., L.E. Band, C.L. Tague, S. Kenworthy, 2005. Analysis of soil moisture patterns in forested and suburban catchments using high resolution photogrammetric and LIDAR digital elevation datasets.

Synergistic Activities:
-Co-PI, Baltimore LTER (through 2011)
-Co-organizer of Chapman Conference on hillslope hydrology (Fall 2001)
-Deputy Editor, Water Resources Research 2002-2004
-Chair, Long Term Hydrologic Observatory Committee, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) 2002-2004
-Review Team Chesapeake Bay Model 2005 and 2008
-Review Team Everglades Land Model 2006
-Visiting Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, 2008