American Institute ofProfessional Geologists

• Service to the Profession and Professionals

• Competence…Integrity…Ethics…

• Advocacy

• AIPG 50th Annual MeetingOctober 23 – 26, 2013Broomfield, Colorado

• www.aipg.org

American Water Resources Association 2,500 national and

international members representing 60 disciplines related to water resources!

48 years of facilitating dialogue and solutions in water resources management, research and education.

2 premier research and news sources: JAWRA and Water Resources IMPACT.

2-4 national and specialty conferences every year.

www.awra.org | info@awra.org

• Total numbers steady between 900-1000.

• Largest decrease in Institutional Memberships (-66%).

• Increase in Reduced Income (+54%) is ~3x decrease in Professional/Sustaining Professional (13%).

• Increase in Student Memberships (+24%)—total numbers now exceed Professionals.

Association for Women Geoscientists

Totals:2008: 9922009: 9122010: 9162011: 939

Membership (2008-2011)

• International memberships• Maintaining students after graduation• Breaking the 1000 Barrier

Future challenges:

Association of American State Geologists

For 2012/2013:• President - Harvey Thorleifson, MN• President-Elect - John Parrish, CA• Vice President - Jonathan Arthur, FL• Secretary - Joe Gillman, MO• Treasurer - Michael Hohn, WV

http://www.stategeologists.org/

Association of Earth Science Editors

• Communicating Geo-science for the World

• Annual Meeting – Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fall 2013

• Members include freelance and organization editors, publishers, printers, publication managers and other interested parties

• Benefits: Job postings, Blueline Newsletter, ListServ for discussing editorial issues, networking

• www.aese.org

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (BESR) of the National Research Council

BESR coordinates activities on Earth science issues and coordinates studies of national importance for the NRC.

In 2012, the Board and its standing committees have released the following reports:

International Science in the National Interest at the U.S. Geological Survey

Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies

Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience: A Vision for Future Practice

Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey

Two reports were released in collaboration with other NRC groups:

Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future

Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative

New initiatives include: energy and mining workforce; requirements for land-change modeling; the geospatial intelligence workforce; federal Earth science education and workforce development; characterization, monitoring, and remediation of fractured rock; soil liquefaction; wildfire resilience; mineral life cycle analysis; and unconventional oil and gas development.

GeoCUR Workshops at GSA and AGU– GSA 2011 & 2012: “Getting Started in Undergraduate Research for New and Future Faculty"

– AGU 2011 & 2012:  “How to Get an Undergraduate Research Program Started”

GeoCUR initiated a new Undergraduate Mentoring Award– 2011 winner: John Brady, Smith College

– 2012 winner: Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin--Madison

Council on Undergraduate Research

www.cur.org

GeoCUR contributed to Undergraduate Research and the Two-year College. In: J.Kinkead & L. Blockus (Eds.), Undergraduate Research Offices & Programs: Models & Practices

GeoCUR and the On the Cutting Edge designed a website on the serc system: “Undergraduate Research as Teaching Practice”

14% avg. annual membership growth since 2000* 16% avg. annual Goldschmidt conference registration growth since 2000** International. 3,793 members in 60 countries 5,000+ subscribers to weekly e-newsletter (Geochemical News) 1,000+ likes on www.facebook.com/geochemsoc

* 1,416 members in 2000; 3,793 members in 2012.** 1,000 participants in 2000; 2,968 participants in 2012. www.geochemsoc.org

Geological Association of Canada (GAC)

• GAC is Canada’s premier learned society for the geosciences;

• Total membership was 1846 in 2012 (6 categories); • Student membership numbers are up to 33% but

professional numbers down to 52%; • 13% of the members are international; • 26% of the members are female; • Geoscience Canada (GAC flagship journal) went digital

and online in 2012 and subscription costs have been decoupled from membership fees;

• New website www.gac.ca

• April - National Schools Geology Challenge • June - Major public briefing meeting on shale gas – talks, briefing

note and other materials available at www.geolsoc.org.uk/shalegas• September - Fermor Meeting on ‘The Neoproterozoic Era;

Evolution, Glaciation and Oxygenation’ attracted 37 speakers and 114 attendees and was followed by field trips to Charnwood Forest (English Midlands) and the Long Mynd (Welsh Borderlands )

• October - Earth science week and launch of new online Plate Tectonics module aimed at a 14 to 16 year old audience (Key stage 4 in the UK)

• Ongoing - Development of Lyell Collection sites, publish ahead of print for books and journals, and site development for viewing on mobile devices

www.geolsoc.org.uk

Geoscience Information Society• Geoscience Librarianship 101 (Saturday) &

Business Meeting (Sunday).• Professional Issues Round Table (Monday, 1:30 -

3:30 PM)• Technical Session (Tuesday, 8:00 AM – Noon).• Luncheon (Tuesday, Noon – 1:30 PM).• Information Resources Forum (Tuesday, 1:30 -3:30

PM).• Reception & Awards (with Geoinformatics Division), Tuesday, 6:00 – 9:00 PM.

Geoscience Society of New Zealand

• ~900 members (professionals, students & amateurs)• Annual conference (2012 Hamilton, 2013 Christchurch)• 3 printed Newsletters/year + Newsflashes• Field-trip guides, book publishing, geopreservation inventory• Student awards for travel & research

J. Irvine

Spyglass Fm, Kaikoura2011 Christchurch earthquake

www.GeoNet.org.nz

www.gsnz.org.nz

Conference discounts for GSA members – Come &

VISIT NZ!

Geoscientists Without Borders®

• Humanitarian applications of geosciences

• Student involvement • Program diversity• Global outreach• 14 projects awarded since 2009

Visit the GWB Booth #734!

• Founded in 1982• Publishes Earth Sciences History, now in its

31st year• Cooperates with GSA History and Philosophy

of Geology Division and with INHIGEO

History of the Earth Sciences Society

http://www.historyearthscience.org

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTSthe worldwide groundwater organisation

• founded in 1956, now 3900 members in 140 countries

• 39 Congresses – 2012 Niagara Falls; 2013 Perth

• 40 National Chapters – more being formed

• rejuvenated scientific commissions and networks

• high quality Hydrogeology Journal published

• active early career network and mentoring scheme being developed

We are now a worldwide professional community, a scientific forum and publisher, and an advocate for groundwater

UNESCO-IHP Partner

IUGS Affiliate

GWPMember

WWCMember

Publications: The Canadian Mineralogist Special Publications Short Course Volumes Elements — An International Magazine

of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology

SponsorshipMedals and Awards

MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

Our Mission:

Promoting and advancing the knowledge of mineralogy and the allied disciplinesof crystallography, petrology, geochemistry and mineral deposits

Mineralogical Society of America

Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & IrelandConferencesSpecial interest groups

– Applied mineralogy, clay minerals, metamorphic studies, volcanology and magmatic studies, mineral physics, geochemistry, environmental

Journals– Mineralogical Magazine, Clay Minerals, Elements

Books–EMU series–Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals–Landmark papers

Membership– Belonging, contributing, leading

Travel GrantsAwards

–Max Hey Medal, Collins Medal, Mineralogical Society-Schlumberger Award

• publishes The Journal of Geoscience Education & In the Trenches

• members include 4 year college and university faculty, 2 year college faculty, K-12 teachers, informal educators, education researchers

• sponsors regional meetings and field trips; supports students through field camp scholarships

• sponsors workshops through CLEAN, InTeGrate, Cutting Edge, GSA and AGU

• organizes the education portions of GSA's Annual Meeting (with G.E.D.)

National Association of State Boards of Geology

! COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND OUTREACH - Candidate examination performance data wasprovided to geoscience departments throughout the United States - a possible “feedback”tool for college and university geology programs to assess their curriculum.

! COMMITTEE ON ETHICS - Conducted a survey of state Member Boards as to theirinvolvement in the enforcement of codes of professional ethics and the resources availablefor this activity.

! COMMITTEE ON EXAMINATIONS - Development of a pilot program to administer the

ASBOG®® examinations for Member Board states is in progress.

! COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - Continued interaction with Canadiancounterparts to enhance cooperative licensure between the U.S. and Canadian licensedgeologists. Participated in the 4t hth International Professional Geology Conference (4IGPC)held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

! COMMITTEE ON UNIFORM PROCEDURES - Initiated protocol for development andadministration of an “Associated Records Program” for state Member Board licensees.

! Throughout the year, numerous presentations were given to university, civic, and variousother organizations regarding geologists’ professional licensure and the role and history ofASBOG®®.

WWW.ASBOG.ORG

NCKRI accomplishments since April 2012:• Initiate nationwide survey of cave and karst resources,

research, management, and educational/interpretive programs throughout the US National Park system.

• Geophysical investigation of gypsum sand aquifer and underlying carbonate aquifer at White Sands National Monument.

• Develop exhibit designs for NCKRI’s National Cave and Karst Museum.

• Establish international workshop program on the management of karst aquifers.

www.nckri.org

• Released Groundwater Forum, an online community for groundwater professionals to collaborate

• Continued growth for Groundwater Awareness Week and Protect your Groundwater Day

• Became part the U.S. Water Partnership, a new U.S. public and private sector initiative

• Held a forum and released a position paper on hydraulic fracturing

www.NGWA.org

www.caves.org

• New headquarter under construction in Huntsville, AL.• Dr. Albert Ogden presented the 2012 NSS Science

Award.• Caver safety training (CST) program that will promote

responsible cave exploration and fellowship among those interested in caves under development by NSS Education Division.

• Workshop for K – 12 educators is in preliminary planning stages .

http://www.agiweb.org/nacsn/

• 26 members from the United States, Canada and Mexico• Keepers of the North American Stratigraphic Code• Provides advice, education on stratigraphic topics• Co-sponsor special session T168. Mid-Atlantic Coastal

Plain Stratigraphy and Paleontology at the Charlotte GSA Annual Meeting

• Annual business meeting is 1:00-5:00 today (Nov 5th)

•Seventh largest natural history research collection in North America •Support for research through facilities, research labs, SEM, scholarships and opportunities to publish your manuscript in one of the oldest academic journals in paleontology •Leader in informal Earth science education and national teacher professional development •Support broader impact and public outreach through our Museum of the Earth featuring the 11,500-year-old Hyde Park Mastodon

For more information:Elizabeth BrandoBrando@museumoftheearth.org MuseumoftheEarth.org

•Founded in 1908 and now has over 1400 members from around the world.

•Dedicated to advancement of all aspects of the science of paleontology.

•Publishes two professional journals: Paleobiology and Journal of Paleontology.

•Administers numerous grants for student research in paleontology.

•Partnering with GSA and SEPM, through the coordinating office STEPPE, to promotesedimentological and paleontological research analyzing the deep-time environmentaland evolutionary history of our planet.

PETROLEUM HISTORY INSTITUTE

Co-sponsor Energy Symposium – Drake Well Museum

August 27, 2012

2012 issue of

Oil-Industry History

Due: December 2012

www.petroleumhistory.org

In 2012 The Seismological Society of America:

Updated our Statement of Purpose: To Advance seismology and the understanding of earthquakes for the benefit of society

Approved a new Strategic Plan

Launched mobile-optimized sites for our journals through GeoScience World

Expanded annual meeting sessions on the web

Held our largest solo annual meeting in history in San Diego

SSA ’13: April 17-19 in Salt Lake CitySee http://www.seismosoc.org

Society for Sedimentary Geology

•JSR and PALAIOS went to Continuous Publishing•Five new Book Publications including

•SP102 Sedimentary Geology of Mars•Three New Council seats created for –

•Student Councilor; •Early Career Councilor and •Web & Technology Councilor

http://sepm.org/

http://www.smenet.org/

• OneMine.org with > 101,000 documents• Popular eBooks (e.g., Mining Engineering Handbook, Industrial Minerals

and Rocks)• Scholarships, including some specifically for geos• Government Relations & Public Affairs Committee: 9+ briefing papers• Annual meeting (24-27 February 2013, Denver – Mining: It’s About the

People) & specialty meetings (underground construction, mining finance, underwater mining, etc.)

Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration

14,086 members (7.1% growth

from 2010 to 2011)

• A society for scientists and engineers (called TSOP) involved with the microscopy of organic rich sediments (kerogen, coal, solid bitumen) that defined as organic petrology. The society organic petrologists is closely associated with organic geochemistry and other related disciplines in geosciences that deals with the organic sediments in nature. We study the genesis and temperature history of the organic sediments.

• We have over 200 members in 30 countries. If you are interested to be a part of the organic petrology community, we invite you to join TSOP (see our webpage: www.tsop.org)

• TSOP have annual meetings worldwide (Halifax, Canada 2011; Beijing, China 2012; Sosnowiec, Poland 2013; Sydney, Australia 2014) & research grants for students

• TSOP is a member society of AGI & an associated society of AAPG

(President (2011-2013): Dr. Isabel Suarez-Ruiz)

Society of Economic Geologists

o Introducing Geofacets for SEG Members o Together, Elsevier and SEG will integrate over 14,800 geological maps

from the society’s journal, Economic Geology, into Geofacets

o SEG 2012 Conference and XVI Peruvian Geological Congress in Lima, Peruo Record breaking attendance with over 1,700 registrants

o SEG Educational and Training Curriculumo A total of 30 courses and field trips offered at the SEG Headquarters in

Littleton, Colorado, USA and abroad

o Student Grants and Fellowshipso Over US$500,000 awarded in 2012 to 200 students worldwide

For more information, please visit www.segweb.org

Society of Exploration GeophysicistsThe international society of applied geophysics

• Advancing the science and technology of applied

geophysics …• Serving a global membership

…• Accelerating geophysical

innovation …• Inspiring the geoscientists of

tomorrow www.seg.org

Non-profit dedicated to scientific, educational and charitable activities related to paleontology

Approximately 250 memberships with over 500 individual and family members

Monthly meetings, fields trips, classes and Kids Club

Trilobite Tales newsletterSponsor of Paleontologia Electronica

Founders Symposium held every other year

Annual grant and scholarship program

westernpaleo.org