The bands are metal rings that are issued in the United States by the U.S. Geological Survey's Bird Banding Lab.
No one can put a band or other kind of marker on a bird without a permit from the Bird Banding Lab.
Dr. Myhrvold, a former Microsoft chief of technology, and his merry band of lab assistants have published an epic account of all cooking methods known to humankind -- from primitive clambake to immersion circulator.
Rowan University's Lab Band and Jazz Band.
He also led the university's One O'Clock Lab Band, the most prestigious of its nine big bands and the first college band to be nominated for a Grammy Award.
4. The One O'clock Lab Band is one of the most prestigious college jazz bands in the nation.
The One O'Clock Lab Band, which Mr. Wiest directs, is like the jazz program's house band.
Auburn High School's jazz ensemble, the Lab Band, was named one of the top ten high school jazz bands in the United States in 1974, and in 1978 performed on the National Association of Jazz Educators "Project II" album as one of "The Nation's Most Outstanding Jazz Bands".
The One O'Clock Lab Band — named for the afternoon hour at which it meets — records extensively and was nominated for six Grammys between 1975 and 2009.
Under his stewardship, the One O'Clock Lab Band performed at the White House with Stan Getz and Duke Ellington in 1967, toured worldwide and in 1970 appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
That fact was perhaps never more evident than one summer in the late 1970s,, when the One O'Clock Lab Band accompanied Ella Fitzgerald at the Spoleto Festival USA, in Charleston, S.C. Impressed, Ms. Fitzgerald asked if she could take the band on the road with her.
