Curtis V Price
Curtis Price is a hydrologist specializing in geospatial data analysis.
Curtis Price earned his M.S. in Geology from Dartmouth College and, after a few years with NASA, joined the U.S. Geological Survey. During his long USGS career, he has provided GIS technical support, tools, and training across the USGS, applying GIS to projects ranging in scale from local water-quality studies to landscape characterization for national-scale analysis. He also developed Python software used to integrate hydrography and elevation data for the National Hydrography Dataset-Plus. Price left the USGS in 2018 to join the faculty at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where he taught geospatial technology courses and workshops (including Surveying for Geological Engineers, Remote Sensing, and three GIS courses). He returned to the USGS in 2023. He is currently a Geology Ph.D. candidate at South Dakota Mines; his dissertation research focuses on developing tools to create longitudinal stream profiles from DEMs and using these DEM derivative data to infer the surface history of Laramide terranes in the eastern Rocky Mountains.
Education and Certifications
B.S. Geology University of Puget Sound
M.S. Geology Dartmouth College
Ph.D. Candidate, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Esri Certified Desktop Professional (ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro)
Affiliations and Memberships*
Geological Society of America
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Honors and Awards
Samuel B Heyman Service to America Aware (Sammy) nominee, 2018
Esri Community Esteemed MVP
Science and Products
Use of Low-Flow Trend and Transfer-Function Models to Determine Relation of Low Flows to Regional Urbanization and Precipitation, Rahway River Basin, New Jersey, 1940-91
Digital data sets describing principal aquifers, surficial geology, and ground-water regions of the conterminous United States
Digital data sets describing water use, toxic chemical releases, metropolitan areas, and population density of the conterminous United States
Preserving ground water samples with hydrochloric acid does not result in the formation of chloroform
Urban land-use study plan for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program
Occurrence of the gasoline additive MTBE in shallow ground water in urban and agricultural areas
A preliminary assessment of the occurrence and possible sources of MTBE in ground water of the United States, 1993-94
Development of a 14-digit hydrologic coding scheme and boundary data set for New Jersey
Potential effects of development on flow characteristics of two streams in the Raritan River Basin, New Jersey
Extraction of terrain features from digital elevation models
Science and Products
Use of Low-Flow Trend and Transfer-Function Models to Determine Relation of Low Flows to Regional Urbanization and Precipitation, Rahway River Basin, New Jersey, 1940-91
Digital data sets describing principal aquifers, surficial geology, and ground-water regions of the conterminous United States
Digital data sets describing water use, toxic chemical releases, metropolitan areas, and population density of the conterminous United States
Preserving ground water samples with hydrochloric acid does not result in the formation of chloroform
Urban land-use study plan for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program
Occurrence of the gasoline additive MTBE in shallow ground water in urban and agricultural areas
A preliminary assessment of the occurrence and possible sources of MTBE in ground water of the United States, 1993-94
Development of a 14-digit hydrologic coding scheme and boundary data set for New Jersey
Potential effects of development on flow characteristics of two streams in the Raritan River Basin, New Jersey
Extraction of terrain features from digital elevation models
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government