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<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=jpg::Maribeth Price::/sites/dl/free/0072865431/108105/price.jpg','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif">Maribeth Price (15.0K)</a>Maribeth Price Dr. Maribeth Price is currently an associate professor of geology at the South Dakota School of Mines (SDSMT) in Rapid City, South Dakota. She holds a bachelor's degree in Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. degree in Geosciences from Princeton University. During her graduate work she pioneered the use of GIS for planetary geology, applying it to the study of impact crater distributions on Venus. She has been using GIS extensively since 1990 and has employed it to address to a wide variety of problems in geology, hydrology, natural resources management, forestry, wildlife management, and carbon sequestration. Her most current research interests include using remote sensing to assist with national forest inventory, and participating in the development of an automated system for quantifying and certifying carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Dr. Price has taught GIS courses regularly since 1995 at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and brings her extensive teaching experience to the development of Mastering ArcGIS. She serves as the Director of the GIS/Remote Sensing Lab at SDSMT, which was recognized in 1998 as a NASA Center of Excellence in GIS and Remote Sensing. She has been an ESRI Authorized Instructor of ArcView GIS since 1998 and directs an ESRI Authorized Learning Center at SDSMT, where she offers a number of ArcView and ArcGIS workshops each year.