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Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor
Phone: (919) 962-3921
E-mail: lband@email.unc.edu
Office: Saunders 206
Curriculum Vita (HTML
format)
Related
links:
Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Assoc. of American Geographers
American Geophysical Union
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Research
Our
research group is primarily interested in the structure, function and
dynamics of watersheds with an emphasis on the quantity and quality of
surface water, and ecosystem cycling of carbon and nutrients. In this
work we explicitly include the actions of human individual and
institutional behavior as part of the watershed ecosystem. We combine field measurement and
observation of hydrological and ecological processes with the development
and application of distributed watershed models, geographic information
science (GISci) and remote sensing techniques. Currently we are working
in a range of watersheds within forested, agricultural and urban
environments. This encompasses a set of Long Term Ecological Research
(LTER) sites (Baltimore
Ecosystem Study and
Coweeta), as well as other
watersheds in North Carolina (Neuse, Haw, Yadkin, Catawba). Previous work
has included work in northern Manitoba, central Saskatchewan, central
Ontario, the Loess Plateau of northern China and the Pacific Northwest.
An
emphasis of our work in GISci is the representation of watersheds as
hierarchical systems based on a landscape framework, including the
topography, soils, land cover, and infrastructure, arranged within nested
subcatchments, hillslopes, bottomlands and stream channels. Remote
sensing techniques are used and developed to extract key attributes of
vegetation canopies, along with anthropogenic features. Digital terrain
analysis is keyed towards the extraction of the full flowpath network,
and the partition of the catchment into the component geomorphic
hierarchy features.
Demographic databases and household survey are used to describe
how households and communities are organized within the watershed, and
how we interact directly or indirectly with the environment.
Recent
Publications
Shields,
C., L.E. Band, N. Law, P. Groffman, S. Kaushal, K. Savvas, G. Fisher, K.
Belt, in press. Streamflow Distribution Of Non-Point Source Nitrogen
Export From Urban-Rural Catchments In The Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Water
Resources Research.
S.S.
Kaushal, P.M. Groffman, L.E. Band, C.A. Shields, R.P. Morgan, M.A.
Palmer, K.N. Eshleman, K.T. Belt, C.M. Swan, S.E.G. Findlay, G.T. Fisher,
in press. Interaction between
urbanization and climate variability amplifies watershed nitrate export
in Maryland, USA. Env. Sci.
& Tech.
Pickett,
S.T.A., M.L. Cadenasso, J.M. Grove, P.M. Groffman, L.E. Band, C.G. Boone,
W.R. Burch Jr., C.S.B. Grimmond, J.Hom, J.C. Jenkins, N.L. Law, C.H.
Nilon, R.V. Pouyat, K. Szlavecz, P.S. Warren, M.A. Wilson, 2008. Beyond Urban Legends: An Emerging
Framework of Urban Ecology, as Illustrated by the Baltimore Ecosystem
Study. Bioscience, v.58.
p.139-150.
E.S. Bernhardt, L.E. Band, C.J. Walsh, and
P.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.
M.L. Cadenasso, S.T.A.Pickett, L.E. Band,
G.S. Brush, M.F. Galvin, P.M. Groffman, J.M. Grove, G. Hagar, V.
Marshall, B. McGrath, J. O’Neil-Dunne, B. Stack, and A. Troy, 2008. Exchanges
across land-water-scape boundaries in urban systems: Strategies for
reducing nitrate pollution, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, v.
1134.
National
Research Council, Committee on Integrated Observations for Hydrologic and
Related Sciences, Water Science Technology Board 2008. “Integrating
multiscale observations of U.S. waters.” National Academies Press, 181p.
D.L.
Tenenbaum, L.E. Band, C.L. Tague, S. Kenworthy, 2006. Analysis of soil
moisture patterns in forested and suburban catchments using high
resolution photogrammetric and LIDAR digital elevation datasets.
Hydrological Processes, v.20(2), p.219-240..
Band,
L.E., M. Cadenasso, S. Grimmond, M.
Grove, S.T. Pickett, 2005. Heterogeneity
in Urban Ecosystems: Pattern and Process. In, Lovett,G.M., C.G.
Jones, M.G. Turner, and K.C. Weathers, editors. Ecosystem
Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes. Springer-Verlag,
NY ().
C.L.
Tague, L.E. Band and J. Franklin 2005. Terrestrial
Ecosystems. Ch.H109 in, eds. M. Anderson, J. McDonnell,
Encyclopedia of Hydrology, John Wiley.
L.E.
Band and C. Tague 2005. Feedbacks and Coupling between Water,
Carbon and Nutrient Cycling at the Hillslope Scale. Ch.
4.10, in Axel Bronstert, Jesus Carrera, Pavel Kabat, Sabine
Lütkemeier (Eds), Coupled Models for the Hydrological Cycle -
Integrating Atmosphere, Biosphere, and Pedosphere.
Springer-Verlag, 2005
Song,
C. and L.E. Band, 2004. MVP: A Model to Simulate the Spatial Patterns of
Photosynthetically Active Radiation Under Discrete Forest
Canopies. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, v.34,
p.1192-1203.
Groffman,
P.M., N.L. Law, K.T. Belt, L.E. Band and G.T. Fisher. 2004.
Nitrogen fluxes and retention in urban watershed ecosystems. Ecosystems,
v.7, p.393-403.
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.
Reckhow,
K., L.E. Band, C. Duffy, et
al 2004. Designing hydrologic
observatories: A paper
prototype of the Neuse Watershed.
A report to the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of
Hydrologic Sciences, Inc.
CUAHSI Technical Report Number 6, December, 2004, Washington, D.C.
Groffman,
P.M., D.J. Bain, L.E. Band, K.T. Belt, G.S. Brush, J.M. Grove, R.V.
Pouyat, I.C. Yesilonis, W.C. Zipperer, 2003. Down by the
riverside: Urban riparian ecology. Front Ecol Environ,
1(6), 315-321.
Mackay,
D.S., S. Samanta, R.R. Nemani, and L.E. Band. 2003. Multi-objective
parameter estimation for simulating canopy transpiration in forested
watersheds. Journal of Hydrology v.277, 230-247.
Creed,
I. F., C. G. Trick, L. E. Band, I. K.
Morrison 2002. Characterizing the Spatial Pattern of Soil Carbon and
Nitrogen Pools in the Turkey
Lakes Watershed: A
Comparison of Regression Techniques. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution,
v.2, p.81-102.
Groffman,
P.M., N.J. Boulware, W.C. Zipperer, R.V. Pouyat, L.E. Band, M.F. Colosimo
2002. Soil nitrogen cycle processes in urban riparian zones. Environmental
Sciences and Technology, v.36, p.4547-4552.
Wing,
S., S. Friedman and L. Band 2002. The potential influence of flooding on
confined animal feeding operations in eastern North
Carolina. Environmental Health
Perspectives, v.110, p.387-391.
L.E.
Band, F. Ogden J. Butler, D. Goodrich, R. Hooper, D. Kane, B. Lyons, D.
McKnight, N. Miller, M. Williams, K. Potter, B. Scanlon, R. Pielke, K.
Reckhow, 2002. Hydrologic Observatories. CUAHSI Technical Report Number 4,
August 2002, Washington D.C.
L.E.
Band, C.L. Tague, P. Groffman and K. Belt, 2001. Forest ecosystem
processes at the watershed scale: Hydrological and ecological controls of
nitrogen export. Hydrological Processes, v.15, p.2013-2028.
C.L.
Tague and L.E. Band, 2001. Simulating the impacts of road construction
and forest harvesting on hydrologic response. Earth Surface Processes
and Landforms, v26, p.135-151.
C.L.
Tague and L.E. Band, 2001. Evaluating explicit and implicit routing for
watershed, hydroecological models of forest hydrology at the small
catchment scale. Hydrological Processes, v.15, p.1415-1439.
L.E.
Band, C.L. Tague, S.E. Brun, D.E. Tenenbaum, R.A. Fernandes 2000. Modeling
watersheds as spatial object hierarchies: Structure and dynamics. Transactions
in Geographic Information Systems, v.4, p.181-196.
S.E.
Brun and L.E. Band 2000. Simulating runoff behavior in an urbanizing
watershed. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, v.24, p.5-22.
Walko,
R.L., L.E. Band, J. Baron, T.G.F. Kittel, R. Lammers, T.J. Lee, R.A.
Pielke, Sr., C. Taylor, C. Tague, C.J. Tremback, P.L. Vidale 2000.
Coupled atmosphere-biophysics-hydrology models for environmental
modeling. Journal of Applied Meteorology, v39, p.931-944.
J.S
Baron, M.D. Hartman, L.E. Band and R.B. Lammers 2000. Sensitivity of a
high-elevation Rocky Mountain watershed to altered climate and CO2. Water
Resources Research, v.36, p.89-100.
Teaching
I teach
courses in hydrology, earth surface processes, environmental modeling,
biogeoscience and GISci. My teaching has included additional
courses in soils, remote sensing, quantitative methods at UNC, University
of Toronto and Hunter College (CUNY).
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