Assistant Professor of
Geology and Geological Engineering 1995-2002
South Dakota School of Mines
and Technology
Rapid City, SD 57702
Name: Maribeth H. Price
Department: Geology and Geological Engineering
Academic rank: Assistant Professor Date granted: August 15, 1995
Ph.D. 1995 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Geosciences)
M.A. 1989 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Geology)
B.A. 1985 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (Earth Sciences)
1995-present Instructor/Assistant Professor, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD
1992-1995 Research/Teaching assistant, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1990-1992 Physical Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey, West Trenton, NJ
1988-1990 Research/Teaching assistant, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1987-1988 Harry Hess Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1985-1987 Physical Science Technician, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
Member, Geological Society of America
Member, American Geophysical Union
Member, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Member, Center for Process Studies, Claremont, CA
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applications and Advances in Remote Sensing, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
ESRI Authorized Instructor for ArcView GIS
2000 SDSM&T College of Earth Systems Special PIF Award
1999 SDSM&T College of Earth Systems Special PIF Award
1994 GSA Planetary Geology Division, S. E. Dwornik Best Student Paper, Honorable Mention
1989 Geological Society of America Research Award -- Outstanding Mention
1987 Special Achievement Award, U.S. Geological Survey
1985 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1984 Tenneco Earth Sciences Scholar, Dartmouth College
Ø Developing and teaching 3-course sequence in Geographic Information Systems.
Ø Writing a GIS lab textbook for use in the introductory GIS course. This text is under contract for publication by McGraw-Hill in October 2003.
Ø Teaching department courses in geology and advising student research.
Ø Writing a Guidebook for Senior Research and improving course procedures.
Ø Participating in the planning and development the C-lock system to estimate and validate carbon sequestration of agricultural lands. The C-lock project is a major initiative funded by Governor Janklow, beginning its third year.
Ø Investigating remote sensing techniques for operational use in developing and maintaining inventories of forest resources, a 3-year NASA funded project.
Ø Establishing a NASA Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing at SDSM&T.
Ø Working with Badlands National park on the GIS component of projects for controlling thistles, analyzing park development, and fossil mapping.
Ø Collaborating with the Rocky Mountain Research Station on projects relating to elk habitat in the Black Hills and remote sensing for forest inventory.
Ø Serving as technical advisor and consultant on GIS for the Black Hills National Forest.
Ø Fusing optical remote sensing data (Landsat) with radar for lithologic mapping at the EROS Data Center as a SD Space Grant Faculty Fellow.
Ø Writing research proposals as a Principle Investigator. Total funds requested: $1,606,657. Total funds granted: $537,598.
Ø Publishing a book: Mastering ArcGIS, 557 pages and 448 figures (manuscript)
Ø Publishing a book chapter in Venus II volume edited by Roger J. Phillips.
Ø Publishing refereed journal articles: 4 published, 1 in review, 1 in prep
Ø Refereed articles have been cited 87 times by other authors according to the “Web of Science” Citation Index.
Ø Conference Proceedings: 30 abstracts and/or conference papers
Ø Developing, supervising, and maintaining the GIS/Remote Sensing lab for teaching, research, and community training.
Ø Establishing the Statewide GIS Educational License Consortium to provide statewide access to GIS software at substantially reduced prices.
Ø Providing long-term leadership, administrative oversight, and technical support for the Statewide GIS Education License Consortium.
Ø Establishing the GIS lab as an Authorized Learning Center for ESRI GIS courses.
Ø Providing GIS workshops for the professional community across the state as an ESRI-Authorized Instructor of ArcView GIS.
Ø Taking the lead in developing the NCA Assessment plan for the Geology Program and playing the major role in designing and implementing the plan.
Ø Major contributor in the development of the GEP Assessment Plan, as a member of the campus GEP Assessment Committee.
Ø Chair of the Geology Program Committee, Member of AEWR Steering Committee, AEWR Campus Committee, Academic Appeals Committee, GEP Assessment Committee, and several search committees.
The following list includes all requested funding for which I applied as a Principle Investigator or Co-Investigator.
“Effective Disposal and Utilization of Green House Gases” $195,455 declined
Department of Energy--Office of Energy Research (two years)
PI’s: M. R. Islam, M. Price, J. Fox, and A. Lisenbee, Feb. 22, 1995
“The Geologic Evolution and Chronology of Venus”, $64,500 declined
NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program--Code SLC,
PI: M. Price, May 22, 1995.
“GIS Data Compilation and Mapping in the Santa Barbara $6,500 $6,500
Channel”, USGS National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program,
through Princeton Univ. PI: M. Price, June 15, 1995.
“Arc/Info Workshop and Technical Support for the USDAFS” $13,217 $13,217
“Global Geologic Mapping on Venus”, $65,000 declined
NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program--Code SLC,
PI: Kenneth Tanaka, USGS, April 27, 1996.
“Arc/Info Workshop and Technical Support for the $29,700 $29,700
USDAFS--Extension” (additional funds received)
Black Hills National Forest, USDA Forest Service
PI: M. Price, September 6, 1995, Complete September 30, 1996.
“Data Conversion for the USDA FS” $9,500 $9,500
Grasslands National Forest, Chadron, NB
PI: M. Price, October 15, 1996 through September 30, 1998
"Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing at SDSM&T" $109,000 $83,300
NASA Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Program
PI: M Price. January 15, 1998- January 14, 1999
“Land cover Characterization from Landsat TM and Ancillary
Data”, EROS Data Center through Horizons, Inc. $6750 $5000
December 1997-Feb 1998
“Global GIS Research Using ArcAtlas”, ESRI, Inc. $5000 $2000
January 1998-May 1998.
“South Dakota Grasshopper Density Maps”, SD Dept. of
Agriculture contract, May 15 – August 31, 1998 $4500 $1500
“Geologic Mapping with RADARSAT, LANDSAT TM, and $5000 $3500
GIS Ancillary Data”, Nelson Research Grant, SDSM&T,
July 1998-June 1999
“Geologic Mapping with RADARSAT, LANDSAT TM, and $10,000 $10,000
GIS Ancillary Data”, EROS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship,
May-August, 1998.
“Application of Remote Sensing to Forest Resource Inventory $305,964 $305,668
and Habitat Modeling”, NASA Remote Sensing for Range,
Agriculture, and Forestry.
PI: M Price, submitted September 8, 1998.
“Using Remote Sensing and GIS to Monitor Prairie Wetlands”, $448,600 declined
NASA Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Research and
Applications
PI: M. Price, submitted February 19, 1999
“Monitoring and Modeling of Prairie Potholes $8,000 $8,000
EROS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship,
SD Space Grant Consortium, May-August, 1999.
Request for AVIRIS Airborne Hyperspectral
Scanner imagery, in support of Project NAG13-99021,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory AVIRIS Team,
PI: Maribeth Price, submitted June 4 , 19999 data request granted
“Evaluation of EO-1 Instruments for Assessing Watershed
Vulnerability”, NASA EO-1 Validation Program
PI: Maribeth Price, submitted June 17, 1999 $251,258 declined
“Request for EO-1 Hyperion Data”,
in support of NASA Forest Resource Inventory
Project NAG13-99021
PI: Maribeth Price, submitted October, 1999 data request granted
“GIS analysis & water
quality evaluation for thistle control in the
Badlands National Park”,
Badlands National Park
PI: TA Fontaine, MH Price, AD Davis,
Submitted October 14,
1999 $9,953
$9,953
Request for IKONOS Satellite Imagery, in support of
Project NAG13-99021, NASA Scientific Data Buy Program
PI: Maribeth Price, submitted November 30, 19999 ~$20,000 granted
“Baseline Mapping of Fossil Bone Beds at Badlands
National Park”, to
the National Park Service Geographic Information
Systems Funding Program,
Midwest Regional Office
PI: Rachel Benton and Maribeth Price
Submitted September 7, 2000 $9000 declined
“A CDROM Textbook for
Teaching GIS”,
Governor Janklow
Teaching with Technology Award,
PI: Maribeth Price
May-August 2001 $24,
760 granted
“Badlands National Park
Development Model”, to the
Badlands National Park.
PI: Maribeth Price and Kyle Smith
Submitted May, 2001 $5000 granted
ISI Web of Science® lists a total of 87 citations of my refereed articles by other refereed articles.
In review, Price M., Mastering ArcGIS, contracted for publication by McGraw-Hill, 557 manuscript pages, 448 figures, ~ 1000 video clips, anticipated release in October 2003.
1997, Tanaka, K.L., D. A. Senske, M. Price, and R. L. Kirk, Physiography, Geomorphic/Geologic Mapping, and Stratigraphy of Venus, in Venus II--Geology, Geophysics, Atmosphere, and Solar Wind Environment, R. J. Phillips et al., eds., University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
In prep, Mannel, S, D. Hua, and M. Price, Forest classification of the northern Black
Hills, U.S.A. using a decision tree classifier on multi-date Landsat TM data.
In revision, Mannel, Sylvio., M. Price , M. Rumble, D. Baldwin, and D. Hua, Using a Variable-plot Technique for Establishing Fixed-radius Circular Plots, Wildlife Society Bulletin.
1998, Hauck, S. A., R. J. Phillips, and M. Price, Venus: Crater distribution and plains resurfacing models, J. Geophys. Res., 103:E6, pp. 13,635-13,642.
1996, Price, M., G. Watson, J. Suppe, and C. Brankman, Dating volcanism and rifting on Venus using impact crater densities, J. Geophys. Res., 101:E2, pp. 4657-4671.
1995, Price, M., and J. Suppe, Constraints on the resurfacing history of Venus from the hypsometry and distribution of tectonism, volcanism, and impact craters, Earth, Moon, and Planets, 71, pp. 99-145.
1994, Price, M., and J. Suppe, Mean age of rifting and volcanism on Venus deduced from impact crater densities, Nature, 372, pp. 756-759.
2002, Mannel, S., M Price, D. Hua, A. Knobloch, and X. Chen, Forest Classification Using Decision Trees on AVIRIS and Multi-Seasonal TM Data, Proceedings of the Eleventh JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop, March, 2002, in press.
2002, Hua, D. and Price, M., Merging Panchromatic Band and multispectral bands of imagery of Landsat 7 Imagery for land-cover classification, Forest Service Remote Sensing Conference, RS 2002, April 8-12, San Diego, CA, in press.
2000, Price, M., S. Mannel, and D. Hua, Mapping Cover Type from Landsat Thematic Mapper in the Black Hills National Forest, SD In: J.D. Greer (Editor), The Eighth Biennial Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, Albuquerque, NM., April 10-14, 2000.
1997, Price, Free at Last: A Perspective on the CSR Constraint, Chapman Conference on the Geodynamics of Venus, April 8-9, Aspen, CO. (INVITED)
1995, Price, M., Estimates of global magmatic flux on Venus based on geologic mapping and dating of volcanism, EOS Transactions AGU, Vol. 76, no. 17, p. S190-S191, (INVITED)
2002, Price, M., S. Mannel, and D. Hua, Application of Remote Sensing to Forest Inventory and Habitat Modeling, South Dakota EPSCoR Conference, October 25, Sioux Falls, SD.
2002, Mannel, S., Hua, D. and Price, M., Forest Classification of the Black Hills, SD Using Decision Tree Analysis. Oral Presentation to National Forest Research Station, Rapid City, SD.
2002, Mannel, S., Hua, D. and Price, M. Forest Classification of the Black Hills, SD Using Decision Tree Analysis., 87th Annual Meeting of South Dakota Academy of Science, Apr 5, 2002, Sioux Falls, SD.
2002, Mannel, S., Hua, D. and Price, M. Forest Classification of the Black Hills, SD Using Decision Tree Analysis. 11th JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop, March 4-8, 2002, Pasadana, CA.
2001, Price, M. and Jason Tinant, Environmental parameters correlating to infestations of Canada Thistle in Badlands National Park: A GIS model, George Wright Society Biennial Conference, Denver, CO, April 2001.
2000, Rumble, Mark and M. Price, Elk Habitat in the Limestone Plateau of the Black Hills National Forest, presented to the South Dakota Dept. of Fish, Game, and Parks, Rapid City, SD, February 13, 2000.
2000, Price, M, Distribution of Elk in the Black Hills National Forest, SD, U.S. Forest Service RS2000 Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 10-14, 2000.
1999, Davis, T. and M. Price, Evaluation of Elk Movement and Habitats within the Black Hills National Forest, Proc. Pecora 14 Land Satellite Information Conference, Dec 6-10, Denver, CO, pp. 490.
1999, Price, M.H, Integration of Landsat TM and polarimetric SAR data for lithologic mapping near Goldfield, Nevada, Proc. 13th International Conf. on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, 1-3 March 1999, pp. I-452-459 (Won Best Poster of Session Award).
1997, Price, M., Fragmentation of the Black Hills National Forest, report prepared for the Black Hills National Forest, Supervisor’s Office, Custer, SD.
1997, Hauck, S. A., R. J. Phillips, and M. Price, Implications for Venusian Plains Resurfacing from Geomorphic Mapping and Impact Crater Densities, Lunar & Planetary Science Conf. XXVI, p. 527.
1997, Herrick, R. and Maribeth Price, It’s a Dry Heat: The Geology of Venus from Magellan, Set of 40 slides, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX,
1996, Price, M., Using GIS-based global mapping to constrain the history of Venus, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 28, no. 4..
1995, Price, M., GIS in Planetary Geology--Exploring the History of Venus, GIS in the Rockies Conference abstract booklet, Denver, CO, p. 118-124.
1995, Tanaka, K., D. A. Senske, G. G. Schaber, and M. H. Price, The geologic framework of Venus: Venus II, Tuscon, AZ, Abstract Booklet, p. 47.
1995, Price, M., Resurfacing history of the Venusian plains based on the distribution of impact craters, Lunar & Planetary Science Conf. XXVI, pp. 1143-1144.
1994, Price, M. and J. Suppe, The Power of GIS for Geologic Mapping and Analysis of Planets, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 26, p. A-264.
1994, Price, M., F. Bilotti, and J. Suppe, Young Volcanoes, Wrinkle Ridges, and Rifts: Cyclic Tectonics on Venus?, EOS Transactions AGU, Vol. 75, No. 16, p. 214.
1994, Price, M., F. Bilotti, J. Suppe, and G. Watson, Young Tectonism and Volcanism on Venus: Age Estimates from Crater Densities, Lunar & Planetary Science Conf., Vol. 25, pp. 1105-1106.
1994, Mueller, K., M. Price, J. Shaw, and J. Suppe, 46 kilometer westward lateral propagation of the Channel Islands Thrust in the last 1 Ma revealed by axial surface mapping, Santa Barbara Channel, California, Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geol. Bull., Vol. 78, no. 4, p. 671.
1994, Price, M. and J. Suppe, Preliminary Tectonic Map of Venus, Arc/Info Map Book 1993, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, p. 111.
1993, Price, M. and J. Suppe, Tectonism, Volcanism, and Impact Craters: Implications for the Resurfacing of Venus, EOS Transactions AGU, Vol. 74, No. 43, p. 379.
1993, Price, M. and J. Suppe, Evidence for the Formation and Uplift of Tessera Terrain on Venus, GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 25, No. 6, p. A-221.
1993, Price, M. and J. Suppe, Some Deformation Trends and Topographic Characteristics of Tesserae on Venus, Lunar & Planetary Science Conf., Vol. 24, pp. 1181-1182.
1993, Price, M. and J. Suppe, Studying Venus using a GIS Database, Lunar & Planetary Science Conf., Vol. 24, pp. 1183-1184.