New grant on landslides to Larry Band and Martin Doyle 

Larry Band and Martin Doyle of the Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have received a grant from the US Forest Service for $74,098 entitled, “Development and application of a process based debris avalanche model for Western North Carolina.”  This project will integrate a process based ecohydrological model that will incorporate the spatial distribution of vegetation canopy and root systems, and the mechanics of debris slides, focusing on sites in Coweeta LTER and surrounding area.