Curtis Price

Physical Scientist

Short Biography

Curtis Price is located at the South Dakota Water Science Center, where he works on several projects of national scope. These include the National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA)  Program and USGS Enterprise Applications/Enterprise GIS.  Recently, Price has been involved with the U.S. Department of Interior's WaterSmart initiative.

His primary research interests are landscape characterization and effective Enterprise GIS implementation.

Selected Publications

Nakagaki, Naomi, Hitt, K.J., Price, C.V., and Falcone, J.A., 2012, Methods to characterize environmental settings of stream and groundwater sampling sites for National Water-Quality Assessment: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5194, 56 p. [online-only]
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5194/.

Valder, J.F., Delzer, G.C., Bender, D.A., and Price, C.V., 2011, Percent recoveries of anthropogenic organic compounds with and without the addition of ascorbic acid to preserve finished-water samples containing free chlorine, 2004-10: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1295, 65 p. [online-only]
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1295/

Price, C. V., Nakagaki, Naomi, and Hitt, K. J., 2010, National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Area-Characterization Toolbox, Release 1.0: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1268. [online-only]
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1268

Rowe, Barbara L., Price, Curtis V., Zogorski, John S., and Moran, Michael J., 2010, Vulnerability of Drinking Water Supply Wells to VOCs, AWWA Journal, 102:5, May 2010, p. 133-143.
http://www.awwa.org/publications/AWWAJournalArticle.cfm?itemnumber=54467

Nakagaki, Naomi, Price, Curtis V.; Falcone, James A.; Hitt, Kerie J.; Ruddy, Barbara C., 2007, Enhanced National Land Cover Data 1992 (NLCDe 92), U.S. Geological Survey Sacramento, CA [online-only digital data set]
http://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?nlcde92

Rowe, Barbara L, Toccalino, Patricia L., Moran, Michael J., Zogorski, John S., and Price, Curtis V., 2007, Occurrence and Potential Human-Health Relevance of Volatile Organic Compounds in Drinking Water from Domestic Wells in the United States. Environmental Health Perspectives, November 2007, 155:11, pp. 1539-1546.
http://www.ehponline.org/members/2007/10253/10253.html

Price, Curtis V.; Nakagaki, Naomi; Hitt, Kerie J.; Clawges, Rick M., 2007, Enhanced historical land-use and land-cover data sets of the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 240, [online only - document and data files] 
|ttp://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ds/ds240

Price, Curtis V., Negri, Mark, 2006, ArcGIS Software Deployment Using External Hard Drives,  Proceedings: ESRI 2006 International User Conference, San Diego,  Calif.,  [online conference proceedings]
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc06/papers/papers/pap_1381.pdf

Price, C., Nakagaki, N., Hitt, K., and Clawges, R., 2003, Mining GIRAS: Improving on a national treasure of land use data. Proceedings: ESRI 2003 International User Conference, San Diego,  Calif., July 7-11, 2003.  [online conference proceedings]
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc03/p0904.pdf

Clawges, Rick M.; Price, Curtis V., 1999, Digital data sets describing principal aquifers, surficial geology, and ground-water regions of the conterminous United States, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-77, [online only] 
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr9977

Squillace, P. J.; Price, C. V., 1996, Urban land-use study plan for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-217, 19 p. 
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr96217

Ellis, William H., Jr.; Price, Curtis V., 1995, Development of a 14-digit hydrologic coding scheme and boundary data set for New Jersey, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4134, 1 map : col. ; 113 x 67 cm., folded in envelope 31 x 23 cm.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/wri/wri954134

Dunne, Paul; Price, C. V., 1995, Geographic information system programs for use in the water-supply-allocation permitting process, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-157, 31 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr95157

Squillace, Paul J.; Pope Daryll A.; Price, Curtis V., 1995, Occurrence of the gasoline additive MTBE in shallow ground water in urban and agricultural areas, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 114-95, 4 p. 
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/fs/fs11495

Wolock, David. M. and Price, Curtis V., 1994, Effects of digital elevation model map scale and data resolution on a topography-based watershed model. Water Resources Research 30:11 p. 3041-3052.
http://www.agu.org/journals/wr/v030/i011/94WR01971/

White, D.A., Smith, R.A., Price, C.V., Alexander, R.B., and Robinson, K.W., 1992, A Spatial Model to Aggregate Point-Source and Nonpoint- Source Water Quality Data Over Large Areas. Computers and Geosciences, Vol 18, No. 8, pp. 1055-1073.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V7D-48CFVD7-94/2/57c4c94b38ec10c8c3e423bc3d267280

Price, C.V., Wolock, D.M., and Ayers, M.A., 1989, Extraction of Terrain Features from Digital Elevation Models. Hydraulic Engineering '89 Proceedings, National Conf. on Hydraulic Engineering/HY Div/ASCE, New Orleans, LA, August 14-18,1989. p. 845-850.
http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/vocs/other/PriceWolockAyers_ASCE_1989.pdf

Westman, W. E., and Price, C.V., 1988, Detecting Air Pollution Stress in Southern California Vegetation Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Band Data, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 54:9, September 1988, p. 1305-1311.
http://www.asprs.org/publications/pers/scans/1988journal/sep/1988_sep_1305-1311.pdf

My Science Topics

My USGS Science Strategy Areas

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology may be used to characterize the earth's landscape and its interaction with human activities.

Enterprise GIS (GIS information and capability coordinated across an organization) plays an important role in many USGS mission areas, as most USGS programs and data holdings have a geospatial (locational) component.