VAN PRICE, JR.

Advanced Environmental Solutions, LLC

407 West Main Street

Lexington, S.C.  29072

(803) 951-8470

vprice1@alltel.net

vprice1@mindspring.com

Education

University of South Carolina       BS in Geology   1962

University of North Carolina      MS, PhD in Geochemistry          1967, 1969

Various short courses and workshops including topics such as strategic planning, experimental design, clastic depositional systems, bio-geochemistry.  Formal education includes about 40 hours in inorganic, physical, and analytical chemistry.

Professional Associations
  • Association of Exploration Geochemists  1976-

(name changed to Assoc. Applied Geochemists 2004      

  • Computer Oriented Geological Society                1985?-1995
  • Carolina Geological Society                                1963-
  • Society of Exploration Geophysicists                    1996-
  • American Geophysical Union                                2005-
  • AAPG  various times in the past and currently
  • GSA past and current, but discontinuous
Summary of Relevant Employment
Co-Founder of Advanced Environmental Solutions, LLC, 2002

Conducted a radiation survey of an industrial site for RMT.  Rented appropriate field MCA and sensor and briefed regulators on work.

Detailed magnetometer survey of brownfields area for confidential client.

Evaluated effects of industrial pumpage on water quality and quantity for confidential client.

Principle Investigator for 4-year NRC research contract to develop ground-water monitoring strategies for nuclear waste and decommissioning sites.

Principle Investigator for EPA contract to revise and update guidance for treatability of soils contaminated with radionuclides.

University of South Carolina              2003-

Research Professor, School of the Environment;

Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology

PI on EPA research project to investigate causes and extent of natural uranium and associated elements in domestic water wells.

TRW (BDM Federal), Aiken, South Carolina                       1996-2001

Performing various support functions for DOE Office of Science and Technology (EM-50) Subsurface Contaminants Focus Area.  Database work in MS Access and Excel.  Developed and executed Focus Area communications strategy based on annual visits to DOE Sites.  Developed methodology for annual analysis of Site technology needs.  Developed concept and needs-based justification for current Focus Area work packages.  Presented paper at national American Chemical Society meeting on subsurface environmental problems across the DOE Complex. 

Clemson University     1995-

Taught senior/graduate hydrogeology course, hydrogeology field camp- aquifer testing, physical geology, and independent study (2-hr graduate course for 4 students in applied geophysics).  Continue as Adjunct Associate Professor.

DOE Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina

Various posiitons          1984 - 1995

Set up core study lab

Set up and taught clastic deposition short courses (similar to AAPG course) for SRS geologists and engineers

Developed database of core and geophysical data

Mapped subsurface geology of 300 square mile SRS using homegrown and TerraSciences Software support

Published regional stratigraphic papers

Conducted, analyzed, and reported large-scale Transient EM Surveys

Analyzed and published regional gravity and magnetic data for SRS area

Managed Ground Water monitoring program within Environmental Protection Department  (1991-93): 1500 wells sampled quarterly, analytical QA, database management, data review/analysis, quarterly report generation for regulatory agencies. 10 professionals, >$10M/yr budget.

Gulf Science and Technology Company (Gulf Labs), Pittsburgh, PA

Research Associate, Geochemistry and Minerals Department            1981 - 1983 (Gulf bought by Chevron and lab closed in ‘83)

Managed professionals, set up and operated an ICP laboratory for soil, vegetation, rock and crude oil analysis.  ICP was linked by modem to IBM 370, performed data analysis and reporting with SAS.

Developed methods for rock and soil analysis to support Gulf Mineral Resources Company

Developed ‘proximity indicator’ program for drill core samples

Developed a program to type crude oils by trace metal analysis.

Conducted soil gas surveys for hydrocarbons in West Virginia and Alabama

Conducted hydrogeochemical survey for buried copper deposits in Arizona

Conducted deep resistivity and magnetometer surveys for ore deposits in southern New Mexico

Interpreted gas seep data from regional surveys offshore California and offshore Gulf of Mexico

Savannah River Laboratory, Aiken, SC

Lead Geologist, National Uranium Exploration (NURE) Program; Manager, NURE Group;     1975-1981

Represented ERDA (now DOE) at IAEA workshop on biogeochemical methods of uranium exploration, Luleå, Sweden, 1979

Represented DOE at IAEA symposium on Uranium Exploration Methods, Paris, 1981; participated in a British Geological Survey field trip to the tin mines of Cornwall

Served as scientist and manager in this nationwide uranium exploration program

Led development of sampling strategies for Western U.S. areas (Washington to Arizona)

Supervised about ten professionals as manager in 1980-81.  Budget about one million dollars

Furman University, Greenville, SC   

Geology Department Chairman , 1968-1975       

Taught mainly mineralogy, geochemistry, and introductory courses

Supervised 3 PhDs.  Budget of about $10,000

Virginia Division of Mineral Resources       

Geologic mapping in the Virginia Piedmont , part-time 1971-1975, published maps of four 7.5’ quadrangles

Selected Publications:

Price, V. and Ragland, P.C., Ground Water Chemistry as a Tool for Geologic Investigations in the Southeastern Piedmont. Southeastern Geology, V.9, No.1, pp29-38, 1968.

Price, V., Stratton, L.P., and Leitner, C., The Role of Sulfide-Producing Bacteria in the Control of Trace Metal Concentrations in Ground Water (abstract), GSA abstracts for 1969, part 7, p 183, 1969

Price, V., Stratton, L.P., and Leitner, C., Bacterial Influence on Heavy Metal Content of Groundwater and Its Implications for Hydrogeochemical Prospecting. Invited paper, AIME Symposium on Geochemical Prospecting, Birmingham, Ala., 1972

Price, V., Geology of the Draper 15’ Quadrangle, Virginia (abstract),  GSA Abstracts, v. 7, no. 4, p. 525, 1975

Ferguson, R.B. and Price, V., NURE Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance in the Eastern United States, Jour. Geochemical Exploration, V.6 No.1-2, pp103-117, 1976.

Price, V., and Jones, P.L., Training Manual for Water and Sediment Geochemical Reconnaissance. Savannah River Laboratory, DPST-79-219 (USDOE-GJBX-420-81), 104p. 1979.

Ward, F.N. and Price, V., Analytical Methodology for Uranium Exploration:  Retrospective and Prospective (abstract), GSA abstracts, V. 11, No. 7, p 534, 1979

Price, V., NURE Geochemical Investigations in the Eastern United States, in: Geochemical Exploration 1978, Proceedings of the Seventh International Geochemical Exploration Symposium, Golden Colorado, Association of Exploration Geochemists, pp161-172, 1979.

Price, V., Atomic Energy, invited paper at 1981 annual meeting of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, Williamsburg, Va., 1980 

Price, V., Conley, J.F., Piepul, R.G., Robinson, G.R., Henika, W.S., and Thayer, P.A., Geology of the Whitmell and Brosville Quadrangles, Virginia, Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Publication 21,1980

Price, V., Conley, J.F., Piepul, R.G., Robinson, G.R., and Thayer, P.A.,  Geology of the Axton and Northeast Eden Quadrangles,Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 22, 1980.

Price, V., Thayer, P.A., and Ranson, W.A., Convenors and Editors, Geological Investigations of Piedmont and Triassic Rocks, Central North Carolina and Virginia, Carolina Geological Society Annual field Guide, 188 p., 5 plates, 1980

Price, V. and Ferguson, R.B., Stream Sediment Geochemical Surveys for Uranium, Jour. Geochemical Exploration, V.13, No.2-3, pp285-304, 1980.

Ward, F.N. and Price, V., Analytical Methodology for Uranium Exploration:  Retrospective and Prospective, Jour. Geochemical Exploration, V.13, No.2-3, pp97-113, 1980.

Price, V., Fay, W.M., and Cook, J.R., Neutron Activation and Other Analytical Data for Plutonic Rocks from North America and Africa. U.S. Dept of Energy, Publication GJBX-221-82, 47p., 1982.

Price, V., Cook, J.R., Fay, W.M., and Karfunkel, B.S., Chemical Variations in Monazite from the Southeastern United States. (invited paper) pp 431-444 in: Proceedings: Uranium Exploration Methods; Nuclear Energy Agency and International Atomic Energy Agency Symposium, OECD, Paris, 1982

Steele, K.F., Cains, W.C., Bevill, J.C., Cook, J.R., and Price, V., Uranium Content of Groundwater from Central Arkansas, pp 63-80 in Contributions to the Geology of Arkansas, J.D. McFarland, egitor, Arkansas Geol. Comm., Misc. Pub. 18, 1982

Price, V., and Heatherington, A., Influence of Soil/Sediment pH or Mineralogy on the Absorbed Hydrocarbon Technique for Geochemical Exploration of Petroleum. (abs.), American Chemical Society 187th National Meeting, St. Louis, Mo. April 8-13, 1984

Price, V., Technology for Environmental Hydrogeology at the Savannah River Plant (invited paper). Presented at Symposium on Ground Water and Environmental Hydrogeology in South Carolina. S.C. Dept. of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, S.C., 1985.

Lorenz, R. and Price, V., Well volume Evacuation versus pH, Conductivity, Volatile Organic Chlorocarbon, and Metal Concentrations, in Proceedings of NWWA Groundwater Geochemistry Conference, Feb. 16-18, 1988, USDOE-DP-MS-86-174, 1988

James, B., Price, V., and Hild, J., Transient Electromagnetic Imaging of a Basin Margin Underneath the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, (SAGEEP) V. 1990, p 261-273, 1990

Zullo, V.A., Harris, W.B. and Price, V., editors, Savannah River Region: Transition between the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains. Proceedings of the Second Bald Head Island Conference on Coastal Plains Geology. UNC-Wilmington, 144p., 1992.

Cumbest, R.J., Price, V. and Anderson, E.E., Gravity and Magnetic Modeling of the Dunbarton Triassic Basin, South Carolina. Southeastern Geology, V.33, pp.37-51, 1992.

Fallaw, W.C. and Price, V., convenors and editors, Geological Investigations of the Central Savannah River Area, South Carolina and Georgia. Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, 110 p., 1992.

Snipes, D.S. Fallaw, W.C., Price, V., and Cumbest, R.J., The Pen Branch Fault: Documentation of Late Cretaceous-Tertiary Faulting in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. Southeastern Geology, V 33, No. 4, pp195-218, 1993.

Kegley, W.P., Fallaw, W.C., Snipes, D.S., Benson, S.M., and Price, V., Textural Factors Affecting Permeability at the MWD Well Field, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina. Southeastern Geology, V. 34, p 139-161, 1994

Fallaw, W.C. and Price, V., Stratigraphy of the Savannah River Site and Vicinity. Southeastern Geology, V 35, No. 1, pp21-58, 1995

Parra, J. O., Price, V., Zook, B. J., Addington, C., and Cumbest, R. J., Interwell Seismic Imaging at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina. Geophysics, Vol 63, pp 1858-1865, 1998.

Price, V. 1999,  The Subsurface Contaminants Focus Area: Innovative Technology Development for Environmental Remediation; Chapter 3, pp35-47 in: Eller, P Gary, and Heinemann, W.R., Nuclear Site Remediation, First Accomplishments of the Environmental Management Science Program, ACS Symposium Series 778, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 464p

Price, V., Temples, Tom, McCary, Laura Taj, Keltner, Susan, Sargent, Kenneth A., Andersen, Brannon, Stone, Peter, Crawford, Bruce, Warner, Richard, and Sojda, Scott,   Investigations of High Uranium Contents In Domestic Water Wells, South Carolina Piedmont

Warner, Richard, Meadows, Jason, Fleisher, Chris, Sojda, Scott, Crawford, Bruce, Stone, Peter A., Price, Van, and Temples, Tom:  Petrography and Uranium Mineralogy of SC DHEC Well Core, Jenkins Bridge Road, Near Simpsonville, South Carolina, Uranium Contamination Detection By Well Water, Tree Bark, and Stream Sediment Sampling

Price, Van, Temples, Tom, McCary, Laura, Keltner, Susan, Sargent, Ken, Anderson, Brannon, Stone, Peter, Crawford, Bruce, Warner, Richard, and Sojda, Scott, (1) School of the Environment, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, laura.mccary@gmail.com, (2) Geology, Furman Univ., Greenville, SC 29613, (3) Furman Univ., (4) SC DHEC, Columbia, SC 29201, (5) Bureau of Water, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, SC 29201, (6) School of the Environment, Department of Geological Sciences, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC 29634-0919

Additional SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Price, V. and Ragland, P.C., Trace Metals in Quartz by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. Southeastern Geology, V.7, No.3, pp93- 100, 1966.

Price, V. and Ragland, P.C., Relationship Between Metal Concentrations in Ground Water and the Geology in the Kings Mountain-Charlotte Area, North Carolina (abstract), GSA Spec. Paper 101, p. 371, 1968

Price, V., Trace Element Distribution in Plutonic Rocks of the Southeastern Piedmont (abstract), GSA Abstracts for 1969, part 4, p. 65, 1969

Price, V., Stratton, L.P., and Leitner, C., The Role of Sulfide-Producing Bacteria in the Control of Trace Metal Concentrations in Ground Water (abstract), GSA abstracts for 1969, part 7, p 183, 1969

Price, V., Notes on a fault in Abbeville County, S.C. Div. Geol. Notes, V. 13, No. 3, p 81-82, 1969

Hatcher, R.D. Jr., Price, V., and Snipes, D.S., Analysis of Chemical and Paleotemperature Data from selected Carbonate Rocks of the Southern Appalachians. Southeastern Geology, V.15, No.2, pp55-70, 1973.

Howell, D.E., Loomis, E.C., and Price, V., Preliminary Results of Geochemical Exploration in the Carolina Barite Belt (abstract), GSA abstracts, V. 7., No. 4, p 502-503, 1975

Price, V. and Wagener, H.D., Geology of the Wilkinsville 7-1/2’ Quadrangle, S.C. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 1975

Snipes, D.S. and Price, V., Paleotemperature determinations using regression functions relating d-spacings, composition and equilibrium temperatures of magnesian calcite (abstract). Geol Soc. America, SE/NE Sections meeting abstracts, 1976 

Price, V. and Ferguson, R.B., SRL-HSSR Orientation Studies in Alabama, USDOE-GJBX-46-76, 1976

Price, V., SRL-HSSR Raw Data from Crystalline Rock Areas of the Southeastern U.S., USDOE-GJBX-9-76, 1976

Price, V. and Ferguson, R.B., Geochemical Interpretation of Kings Mountain Orientation Area, U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, Symposium GJBX-77-77, pp279-295, 1977.

Ferguson, R.B., Price, V., and Baucom, E.I., Field Manual for Stream Water and Sediment Reconnaissance, National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program, USDOE-GJBX-80-77, 80p., 1977

Price, V., and Jones, P.L., Savannah River Laboratory Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance, Leesville, S.C. Area Orientation Study, USDOE-GJBX-61-78, 39p, 1978

Price, V., and Ferguson, R.B., SRL-HSSR Ground Water Basic Data Release for the Winston-Salem 1X2-degree NTMS Area, USDOE-GJBX-58-78, 1978

Ferguson, R.B., Baucom, E.I., and Price, V., SRL-HSSR Orientation Studies in the Spruce Pine, Moore, and Johnson, N.C., Areas, USDOE-GJBX-17-78, 82p, 1978

Price, V., and Jones, P.L., Training Manual for Water and Sediment Geochemical Reconnaissance. Savannah River Laboratory, DPST-79-219 (USDOE-GJBX-420-81), 104p., 1979.

Price, V., Some results of NURE Uranium Geochemical Studies, AIME paper SME-79-131, New Orleans meeting, 1979

Koch, G.S., Carpenter, R.H., Price, V., Ferguson, R.B., A Geological Evaluation of Stream Geochemical Data in the Southeastern U. S., (abstract), Geol. Soc. Am., Programs, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 185, 1979

Jones, P.L., and Price, V., SRL-HSSR, Walcott, Vermont Area Orientation Study, USDOE-GJBX-43-79, 28p, 1979

Price, V., Fay, W.M., and Cook, J.R., Neutron Activation and Other Analytical Data for Plutonic Rocks from North America and Africa. U.S. Dept of Energy, Publication GJBX-221-82, 47p., 1982.

Price, V., Cook, J.R., Fay, W.M., and Karfunkel, B.S., Chemical Variations in Monazite from the Southeastern United States. (invited paper) pp 431-444 in: Proceedings: Uranium Exploration Methods; Nuclear Energy Agency and International Atomic Energy Agency Symposium, OECD, Paris, 1982

Pirkle, R.J. and Price, V., Leak Detection and Monitoring. pp379-406 in: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Hazardous Materials Management Conference. Tower Conference Management Company, Wheaton, Ill., 1986.

Fallaw, W.C. and Price, V., Subsurface Structures in the Southwestern Coastal Plain of South Carolina (abstract), GSA Abstracts, V. 19, No. 7, p 658-659, 1987

Laws, R.A., Zullo, V.A., and Price, V., Age and Correlation of Calcareous Subsurface Strata in the Western South Carolina Coastal Plain (abstract), GSA Abstracts, V. 19, no. 2, p. 94, 1987

Laws, R.A., Harris, W.B., Zullo, V.A., Price, V., and Clark, J.L., Coastal Onlap Stratigraphy, Age, and Correlation of Tertiary Sediments, Western South Carolina (abstract), GSA   Abstracts, V. 19, No. 7, p. 741, 1987

Thayer, P.A., Fallaw, W.C. and Price, V., Petrology and diagenesis of Eocene Carbonate Sediments, Savannah River Plant, S.C. (abstract), GSA Abstracts, V. 20, No. 4, p 319-320, 1988

Fallaw, W.C., Thayer, P.A., Price, V., and Lucas-Clark, J., Paleocene Strata Beneath the Savannah River Plant, Coastal Plain of South Carolina (abstract), GSA abstracts, V. 20, No. 4, p 263, 1988

Lorenz, R. and Price, V., Well volume Evacuation versus pH, Conductivity, Volatile Organic Chlorocarbon, and Metal Concentrations, in Proceedings of NWWA Groundwater Geochemistry Conference, Feb. 16-18, 1988, USDOE-DP-MS-86-174, 1988

Maciolek, J., Fritz, H.E., Nopper, R, and Price, V., Mapping with the TEM in the Savannah River Plant Area (abstract), GSA Abstracts, V. 20, No. 4, p 277, 1988

Fallaw, W.C. Snipes, D.S., and Price, V., Traveling (and getting lost) with William Bartram (abstract) GSA abstracts, V. 21, No. 6, p A61-A62, 1989

Fallaw, W.C. Price, V. and Thayer, P.A., An Updip Equivalent of the Lower Eocene Fishburn Formation in the Southwestern Coastal Plain of South Carolina (abstract), GSA Abstracts, V. 21, No. 3, p. 14, 1989

Harris, W.B., Zullo, V.A., and Price, V, Coastal Onlap Stratigraphy and Sea-Level History of the onshore Paleogene, Southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA (abstract), International Sedimentological Congress, V. 13, p. 212, 1990

Fallaw, W.C. Thayer, P.A., and Price, V., Basal Coastal Plain Deposits in Southwestern South Carolina (abstract), GSA Abstracts, V. 22, No. 4, p. 13, 1990

Fallaw, W.C. Price, V. and Thayer, P.A., Effects of Varying Degrees of Marine Influence on Tertiary Sediments in Southwestern South Carolina (abstract), GSA abstracts, V. 22, No. 7, p 45, 1990

Zullo, V.A., Harris, W.B. and Price, V., editors, Savannah River Region: Transition between the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains. Proceedings of the Second Bald Head Island Conference on Coastal Plains Geology. UNC-Wilmington, 144p., 1992.

Cumbest, R.J., Price, V. and Anderson, E.E., Gravity and Magnetic Modeling of the Dunbarton Triassic Basin, South Carolina. Southeastern Geology, V.33, pp.37-51, 1992.

Fallaw, W.C. and Price, V., convenors and editors, Geological Investigations of the Central Savannah River Area, South Carolina and Georgia. Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, 110 p., 1992.

Fallaw, W.C., Snipes, D.S., Daggett, J.S., Furlow, L.J., James, A.L, Moore, J.P., and Price, V., Stratigraphic Relationships in Eocene Outcrops Along Upper Three Runs at the Savannah River Site, p XII1-XII2 in Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, 1992

Fallaw, W.C. Snipes, D.S., and Price, V., Silver Bluff: A Very Celebrated Place, p B-13-1-B-13-2, Carolina Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, 1992 

Snipes, D.S., Stieve, A.L., Price, V., Fallaw, W.C., Kegley, W.P., and Daggett, J.S., Middle Eocene ‘Green Clay’ interval at the Savannah River Site (abstract). GSA Abstracts, V. 24, No. 2., p. 65, 1992

Smith, N., Fallaw, W.C., Kegley, W.P., Snipes, D.S., and Price, V., Grain Morphology in Eocene Sediments at the Savannah River Site, S.C. (abstract). GSA Abstracts, V. 24, No. 2,  p. 65, 1992

Snipes, D.S. Fallaw, W.C., Price, V., and Cumbest, R.J., The Pen Branch Fault: Documentation of Late Cretaceous-Tertiary Faulting in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. Southeastern Geology, V 33, No. 4, pp195-218, 1993.

Kegley, W.P., Fallaw, W.C., Snipes, D.S., Benson, S.M., and Price, V., Textural Factors Affecting Permeability at the MWD Well Field, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina. Southeastern Geology, V. 34, p 139-161, 1994

Fallaw, W.C., Snipes, D.S.,  and Price, V., Wandering with William Bartram: the Section at Silver Bluff, South Carolina. Earth Sciences History, Vol. 13, p 52-57, 1994

Fallaw, W.C. and Price, V., Stratigraphy of the Savannah River Site and Vicinity. Southeastern Geology, V 35, No. 1, pp21-58, 1995

Parra, J. O., Zook, B., Addington, C., Cumbest, R. J., and Price, V., Reverse VSP and crosswell seismic imaging at the Savannah River site. Poster presentation, SEG 66th Annual Meeting, Denver, 1996

Price, Van, Parra, Jorge, Zook, Brian, Addington, Carl, Cumbest, Randy, Cross-well Seismic Methods for Studies beneath existing Buildings. Poster Presentation, GSA Southeastern Section meeting, Auburn, Ala. 1997

Price, V., Maciolek, J. B., Nopper, R., Hild, J., Fritz, H., James, B., Mapping with Transient Electromagnetic (TEM) Surveys at the Savannah River Plant, South Carolina. Oral Presentation, GSA Southeastern Section meeting, Auburn, Ala. 1997

Other:

Numerous internal reports at SRS and Gulf Oil.