EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TRAINING:
M.S. - Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2007)
B.S. - Biology & Geology, Richard Stockton College of NJ (now Stockton University) (2005)
Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History: Research Training Program (2003)
American Museum of Natural History: Research Experience for Undergraduates (2004)
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Associate Professor in Earth & Environmental Science- State University of New York at Plattsburgh (2025 - present)
Assistant Professor in Earth & Environmental Science- State University of New York at Plattsburgh (2019 - 2025)
Assistant Professor of Geology - Portland State University (2014 - 2019)
Earth Science Education Consultant- Achieve, Inc., Washington, DC (2013 - 2015)
Co-Teacher and Science Curriculum Consultant- Echelon Academy, Sandy Spring, MD (2012-2013)
Adjunct Instructor- Howard Community College (2013), University of Maine (2009, 2011)
SERVICE AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:
Portland State University Graduate Teacher Education Program- Integrated Sciences Advisor- (2014 - 2017)
Portland State University Challenge Program, Geology Dept. Coordinator- Riverdale High School (2014 -present)
Invited Talks- Geological Society of the Oregon Country (2015); Portland State University (2015); Geological Society of Washington (2013); Richard Stockton College of NJ (2013)
Lecture Series Coordinator- University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences (2009-2011); Geological Society of Washington, Washington, DC (2013).
Student Voice Columnist for The Professional Geologist, an American Institute of Professional Geologists publication (2005-2008).
SELECTED STEM EDUCATION PRODUCTS, ABSTRACTS, & PUBLICATIONS:
Nancy A. Price (2023) Practice-Crosscutting Concept pairs of the NGSS and ways of knowing in the Earth & Space Sciences, Journal of Geoscience Education, 71:2, 253-265, DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2022.2126652
Price, N. A., Wells, J. G., & Granshaw, F. D. 2022. Building an NGSS-aligned Middle School Summer Camp for an Observational Investigation with a Virtual Field Environment. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 31(6), 747-766. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-022-09990-z
Petcovic, H.L.; Cervenec, J.; Cheek, K.; Dahl, R.; & Price, N. 2018. Research on Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Earth and Space Sciences Teacher Education. In St. John, K., eds., Community Framework for Geoscience Education Research. National Association of Geoscience Teachers. https://doi.org/10.25885/ger_framework/4
Achieve, Inc. & The NGSS Network States and Partners, 2016. Next Generation Science Standards Example Bundles. Published online Jun. 2016. (https://www.nextgenscience.org/resources/bundling-ngss).
Achieve, Inc. & The NGSS Network States and Partners, 2015. Next Generation Science Standards Evidence Statements. Published online June. 2015. (https://www.nextgenscience.org/evidence-statements)
Achieve, Inc. & The NGSS Network States and Partners, 2014. NGSS/CCSS-M Sample Classroom Assessment Tasks. Published online Nov. 2014. (https://www.nextgenscience.org/classroom-sample-assessment-tasks)
Price, N.A., 2014. Development of performance tasks highlights the need for datasets and resources for successful classroom implementation of the NGSS. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.46.
SELECTED GEOLOGY RESEARCH ABSTRACTS, PUBLICATIONS, & FIELD GUIDES:
(* - denotes student author)
Biesiada, V.* & Price, N.A. 2017. Analysis of Deformation in Pillow Basalts of the Crescent Formation, Olympic Mountains, Washington, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 49(6). doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-298763.
Price, N.A. & Lahart, E.A.* 2016. Preliminary Characterization of High-Pressure-Assemblage-Bearing Metasedimentary Units, Goshen Dome, Appalachian Orogen, Massachusetts, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 48(7). doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-287859.
Price, N.A., Song, W.J., Johnson, S.E., Gerbi, C.C., Beane, R., & West Jr, D.P. 2016. Recrystallization Fabrics of Sheared Quartz Veins with a Strong Pre-existing Crystallographic Preferred Orientation from a Seismogenic Shear Zone. Tectonophysics. 682, 214–236. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.05.030.
West Jr., D.P., Pollock, S., Song, W.J., Price, N.A., & Johnson, S.E., 2014. The Ray Corner High Strain Zone of the Norumbega Fault System in Maine: A Complex History of Ductile Shear, Brittle Deformation, and Paleoseismicity. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014, T13A-4615.
Price, N.A., Johnson, S.E., Gerbi, C.C., & D.P. West Jr., 2012. Identifying deformed pseudotachylyte and its influence on the strength and evolution of a crustal shear zone at the base of the seismogenic zone. Tectonophysics. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.11.011.
Price, N.A., West, D.P.,Jr., Johnson, S.E., & Marsh, J.H., 2010. Coupled deformation and metamorphism, ultramylonite development, and evidence for paleoseismicity during protracted dextral shearing in south-central Maine. In Gerbi, C.C. and Yates, M, eds., Guidebook for fieldtrips in coastal and interior Maine, 102nd New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, p. 109-131.
Johnson, S.E., Lenferink, H.J., Marsh, J.H., Price, N.A., Koons, P.O., & West, D.P. 2009. Kinematic vorticity analysis and evolving strength of mylonitic shear zones: new data and numerical results. Geology, 37(12), 1075-1078. doi: 10.1130/G30227A.1
Johnson, S.E., Lenferink, H.J., Price, N.A., Marsh, J.H., Koons, P.O., West, D.P., & Beane, R. 2009. Clast-based kinematic vorticity gauges: the effects of slip at matrix/clast interfaces. Journal of Structural Geology, 31(11),1322-1339. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.07.008
Price, N.A., Williams, M.L., & Karlstrom, K.E. 2007. Mn-andalusite horizon in the Ortega Fm. Quartzite: Implications for the Proterozoic tectonic history of the Tusas Mts., Northern New Mexico. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39(5), 40.
Price, N.A., B.T. Huber, & K.G. MacLeod. 2003. Planktonic Foraminifera Depth Ecologies Across the Aptian-Albian Boundary in the Subtropical North Atlantic (ODP site 1049). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 35(6), 254.