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1204
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Overview

Lawrence E. Band is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science. Their research focuses primarily on water science and technology, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and ecology. Across these fields, their work engages with various aspects of hydrology and watershed management, soil and water nutrient dynamics, urban stormwater management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, water resources management and optimization, flood risk assessment and management, as well as hydrology and sediment transport processes.

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, with the most frequent outlets including UNC Libraries, Water Resources Research, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Hydrological Processes, and the JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Their recent notable papers include the following:

  • Vegetation structural change and CO2 fertilization more than offset gross primary production decline caused by reduced solar radiation in China, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Explaining changes in rainfall-runoff relationships during and after Australia's Millennium Drought: a community perspective, 2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Is Past Variability a Suitable Proxy for Future Change? A Virtual Catchment Experiment, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • An Empirical Reevaluation of Streamflow Recession Analysis at the Continental Scale, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Non-linear quickflow response as indicators of runoff generation mechanisms, 2020, Hydrological Processes

Lawrence E. Band frequently collaborates with other researchers, including J. M. Duncan, Peter M. Groffman, Laurence Lin, Conghe Song, and Linnea Saby. The volume of their collaborations with these co-authors suggests ongoing partnerships over multiple studies.

Their research topics emphasize:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

The work of Lawrence E. Band spans numerous environmental challenges involving water systems, nutrient cycles, and the interplay between vegetation and atmospheric conditions. Their scholarly contributions provide data-driven insights into hydrological processes, stormwater management strategies, and ecosystem-carbon interactions within various environmental contexts.

Best Publications

  • Topographic Partition of Watersheds with Digital Elevation Models

    Lawrence E. Band

  • Increased salinization of fresh water in the northeastern United States

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Peter M. Groffman;Gene E. Likens;Kenneth T. Belt

  • Effects of spatial variability and scale with implications to hydrologic modeling

    Eric F. Wood;M. Sivapalan;Keith Beven;Larry Band

  • Coupled Atmosphere–Biophysics–Hydrology Models for Environmental Modeling

    Robert L. Walko;Larry E. Band;Jill Baron;Timothy G. F. Kittel

  • Down by the riverside: urban riparian ecology

    Peter M. Groffman;Daniel J. Bain;Lawrence E. Band;Kenneth T. Belt

  • Nitrogen Fluxes and Retention in Urban Watershed Ecosystems

    Peter M. Groffman;Neely L. Law;Kenneth T. Belt;Lawrence E. Band

  • Tracking nonpoint source nitrogen pollution in human-impacted watersheds.

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Peter M. Groffman;Lawrence E. Band;Emily M. Elliott

  • Mapping regional forest evapotranspiration and photosynthesis by coupling satellite data with ecosystem simulation

    Steven W. Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;David L. Peterson;Larry E. Band

  • Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

    Ying Fan;M. Clark;D. M. Lawrence;S. Swenson

  • Beyond Urban Legends: An Emerging Framework of Urban Ecology, as Illustrated by the Baltimore Ecosystem Study

    Steward T. A. Pickett;Mary L. Cadenasso;J. Morgan Grove;Peter M. Groffman

  • Forest ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: incorporating hillslope hydrology

    Lawrence E Band;Pitman Patterson;Ramakrishna Nemani;Steven W Running

  • Simulating runoff behavior in an urbanizing watershed

    S.E Brun;L.E Band

  • Regulation of Nitrate‐N Release from Temperate Forests: A Test of the N Flushing Hypothesis

    I. F. Creed;L. E. Band;N. W. Foster;I. K. Morrison

  • Export of nitrogen from catchments within a temperate forest: Evidence for a unifying mechanism regulated by variable source area dynamics

    I. F. Creed;I. F. Creed;L. E. Band

  • Soil nitrogen cycle processes in urban riparian zones

    Peter M. Groffman;Natalie J. Boulware;Wayne C. Zipperer;Richard V. Pouyat

  • Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change

    T.L. Greaver;C.M. Clark;J.E. Compton;D. Vallano

  • Reanalysis of global terrestrial vegetation trends from MODIS products: Browning or greening?

    Yulong Zhang;Conghe Song;Conghe Song;Lawrence E. Band;Ge Sun

  • Interaction between urbanization and climate variability amplifies watershed nitrate export in Maryland.

    Sujay S. Kaushal;Peter M. Groffman;Lawrence E. Band;Catherine A. Shields

  • Derivation of Soil Properties Using a Soil Land Inference Model (SoLIM)

    A-Xing Zhu;Lawrence Band;Robert Vertessy;Barry Dutton

  • Nitrogen input from residential lawn care practices in suburban watersheds in Baltimore County, MD

    Neely L. Law;Lawrence E. Band;J. Morgan. Grove

  • Forest ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: basis for distributed simulation

    Larry E. Band;David L. Peterson;Steven W Running;Joseph C. Coughlan

  • Mapping Regional Forest Evapotranspiration And Photosynthesis By Coupling Satellite Data With Ecosystem Simulation

    S.W. Running;J.C. Coughlan;D.L. Peterson;L.E. Band

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Christina L. Tague
Christina L. Tague University of California, Santa Barbara
Conghe Song
Conghe Song University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James M. Vose
James M. Vose North Carolina State University
Sujay S. Kaushal
Sujay S. Kaushal University of Maryland, College Park
Jill S. Baron
Jill S. Baron United States Geological Survey
Richard B. Lammers
Richard B. Lammers University of New Hampshire
A-Xing Zhu
A-Xing Zhu University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mary L. Cadenasso
Mary L. Cadenasso University of California, Davis
David N. Wear
David N. Wear Resources For The Future

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