Lawrence Band, Voit Gilmore distinguished professor in geography and director of the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina, will present this year's Donald R.F. Harleman Lecture in Water Resources Engineering at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in 112 Walker Building on Penn State's University Park campus.
Band will present "Forest Ecosystem Processes at the Watershed Scale: Optimization of Landscape Level Coupled Water, Carbon and Nutrient Cycling."
The event is free and open to the public.
Band is an expert in the ecohydrology of watersheds, including cycling of water, carbon and nutrients; the development and impact of droughts and floods; and human-environment interactions.
He teaches courses in watershed hydrology, geomorphology, geographic information systems and environmental modeling.
Band has been a member of the North Carolina faculty for 11 years and has held appointments at the University of Toronto and Hunter College in New York City.
He is the incoming board chair for the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences.
The annual Harleman Lecture honors Penn State alumnus Donald Harleman, an expert in hydraulics and environmental engineering who served on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty between 1945 and 1991.