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Links to Web Sites of IUGS Bodies and Related Organizations

Following are links to IUGS Commissions, Subcommissions, Joint Programs, and Affiliated Organizations that maintain web sites, and to the IUGS Secretariat. All are repeated, though scattered, in other sections of this website (Directory, Scientific Activities). They are collected here for convenience and quick access.

IUGS Permanent Secretariat
IUGS Secretariat (USGS) Washington

Episodes (Journal of International Geoscience)
Episodes Secretariat, India

Commissions and Subcommissions
Commission on  Geoscience Education, Training & Technology Transfer
Commission on the Management and Application of Geoscience Information
International Commission on  the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO)
International Commission on  Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Ordovician Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Palaeogene Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Neogene Stratigraphy
         Regional Committee on Atlantic Neogene Stratigraphy
         Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification
ICS Task Group on Stratigraphic Information
Geoscience for Environmental Management
Tectonics and Structural Geology

Joint Programs
Geological Applications of Remote Sensing
International Geoscience Programme (IGCP)
Scientific Committee on the Lithosphere
34th International Geological  Congress (Brisbane, Australia, 2012)
Isotope Geology and Geochronology

Task Groups
Global Geochemical Baselines
Global Geoscience Workforce

Initiatives
International Year of Planet Earth

Affiliated Organizations
African Association of Women in Geosciences
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
American Geological Institute
American Geophysical Union
Arab Geologists Association
Association of European Geological Societies
Association of Applied Geochemists
Association of Geoscientists for International Development 
Association internationale pour l’etude des argiles 
Balkan Geophysical Society
Carpathian Balkan Geological Association
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources
Centre International pour la Formation et les Echanges Géosciences
Commisson for the Geological Map of the World
Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia
Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earth's Continental Crust
European Association of Science Editors
European Geoparks Network
European Mineralogical Union
Geochemical Society
Geological Society of Africa
Geological Society of  America
Geological Society of India
Geologische Vereinigung
International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment
International Association of Geomorphologists
International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits
International Association of Geochemistry
International Association of Hydrogeologists
International Association for Mathematical Geosciences
International Association of Sedimentology
International Center for Training and Exchanges in the Geosciences
International Consortium on Landslides
International Federation of  Palynological Societies
International Geoscience Education Organisation
International Mineralogical Association
International Palaeontological Association
International Permafrost Association
International Society for Rock Mechanics
International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Italian Federation of Earth Sciences
Meteoritical Society
National Ground Water Association
Society of Economic Geologists
Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits
Society for Sedimentary Geology
Société Géologique de France
The European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage

GeoUnions
International Astronomical Union
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
International Geographical Union (IGU)
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)
International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
International Union of Radio Science (URSI)

IGCP Projects
480 Tectonics of Central Asia
506 Marine and Non-marine Jurassic
507 Paleoclimates of the Cretaceous in Asia
509 Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution
510 A-type Granites and Related Rock through Time
511 Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
512 Neoproterozoic Ice Ages
513 Karst Aquifers and Water Resources
514 Fluvial Palaeosystems: Evolution and Mineral Deposits
516 Geological Anatomy of East and South East Asia
519 Hydrogeol., Hydrochem. And Management of Coast. Aquifers, South America
521 Black sea Mediterranean Corridor during the last 30 ky
523 GROWNET - Global Ground Water Network
524 Arc-Continent Collision
526 Risks Resources, Record of the Past on the Continental Shelf
529 Avaibility of groundwater resources in selected urban areas in Southern African Development Community (SADC) region
540 Gold-bearing hydrothermal fluids of deposits
543 Low-temperature thermochronology: applications and inter-laboratory calibration
546 Subduction zones of the Caribbean
555 Rapid Environmental/Climate Change in the Cretaceous Greenhouse World
557 Diamonds, xenoliths and kimberlites
559 Crustal Architecture and Landscape Evolution
565 Geodetic Monitoring of the Global Water Cycle
567 Earthquake Archaeology: Archaeoseismology along the Alpine-Himalayan seismic zone
571 Radon, Health and Natural Hazards
572 Permian-Triassic Ecosystems
574 Bending and Bent Orogens, and Continental Ribbons
580 Application of Magnetic Susceptibility on Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks
581 Evolution of Asian River Systems
582 Tropical Rivers: Hydro-Physical Processes, Impacts, Hazards and Management

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