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 site (Directory, Scientific Activities). They are collected here for convenience and quick access.

IIUGS Permanent Secretariat
IUGS Secretariat, Trondheim, Norway

Episodes (Journal of International Geoscience)
Episodes Secretariat, Beijing, China

Commissions and Subcommissions
Commission on Fossil Fuels
Commission on  Geoscience Education, Training & Technology Transfer
Commission on Geoscience for Environmental Management
     Working  Group on Urban Geology
     Working Group on International Borders & Environmental Concerns
     Working  Group on Geology and Ecosystems
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
         Santonion Working  Group
     Subcommission on Palaeogene Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Neogene Stratigraphy
         Regional Committee on Atlantic Neogene Stratigraphy
         Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy
     Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification
         Working Group on Stratigraphic Information
Commission on  Systematics in Petrology
     Subcommission on the Systematics of Metamorphic Rocks
     Subcommission on Data Bases  in Petrology

Joint Programs
Geological Applications of Remote Sensing
International Geoscience Programme (IGCP)
Mineral Resources Sustainability Programme
Scientific Committee on the Lithosphere
33rd International Geological  Congress (Oslo, Norway, 2008)

Task Groups
Global Geochemical Baselines
Tectonics and Structural Geology

Initiatives
International Year of Planet Earth

Affiliated Organizations
American Association of Petroleum  Geologists
American Geological  Institute
American Geophysical Union
Association of European Geological Societies
Association of Applied Geochemists
Association of Geoscientists for International Development
Association  internationale pour l’etude des argiles
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
European Association of Science Editors
European Mineralogical Union
Geochemical Society
Geological Society of Africa
Geological Society of  America
International Association for  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 Geology
International Association of Sedimentologists
International Consortium on Landslides
International Federation of  Palynological Societies
International Geoscience Education Association
International Mineralogical Association
International Palaeontological Association
International Permafrost Association
International Society for Rock Mechanics
Meteoritical Society
Society of Economic Geologists
Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits
Society for Sedimentary Geology

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
512 - Neoproterozoic Ice Ages
511 - Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences
510 - A-Type Granites and Related Rocks Through Time
503 - Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate
497 - The  Rheic Ocean: Its Origin, Evolution, and Correlatives
495 - Quaternary Land-Ocean Interactions: Driving Mechanisms and Coastal Responses
490 - The Role of Holocene  Environmental Catastrophes in Human History
479 - Sustainable Use of the Platinum-Group Elements in the 21st Century
476 - Monsoon Evolution and Tectonics-Climate Linkage in East Asia
475 - Deltas in the Monsoon Asia-Pacific region
474 - Images of the Earth's Crust & Upper Mantle
464 - Continental Shelves During the Last Glacial Cycle

Geo-Science Related
Geology Times