Associations & Societies – Geologynet
Geological and geoscience professional associations worldwide. Links verified May 2026.
Key:
OK Verified active
FIXED Broken — corrected URL supplied
MOVED Redirected to new domain/path
MERGED Organisation absorbed into another
OK Verified active
FIXED Broken — corrected URL supplied
MOVED Redirected to new domain/path
MERGED Organisation absorbed into another
? Africa
Council for Geosciences of South Africa OK
Geological Society of South Africa OK
South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy OK
South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions OK
?? Argentina
Asociación Geológica Argentina OK
?? Australia
Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) OK
Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) MOVED
Old: ausimm.com.au — canonical domain dropped the .au
Australian Institute of Petroleum (AIP) OK
Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) OK
Gemmological Association of Australia OK
Geological Society of Australia (GSA) OK
Minerals Council of Australia OK
Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) OK
Sydney Mineral Exploration Discussion Group (SMEDG) OK
?? Austria
Österreichische Geologische Gesellschaft OK
Österreichische Mineralogische Gesellschaft (ÖMG) MOVED
Old: univie.ac.at/Mineralogie/Oemg.htm — society now has its own dedicated domain
?? Belgium
Geological Society of Belgium OK
?? Brazil
Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia OK
?? Bulgaria
Bulgarian Geological Society OK
Bulgarian Mineralogical Society FIXED
Old: minsoc.hit.bg — hit.bg domain defunct; society moved to dedicated domain
?? Canada
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) OK
Canadian Association of Palynologists (CAP) FIXED
Old: scirpus.ca/cap/cap.shtml — scirpus.ca redirects to update links; new official site
Canadian Geotechnical Association OK
Canadian Geophysical Union OK
Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) OK
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) OK
Canadian Well Logging Society OK
Geological Association of Canada OK
Mineralogical Association of Canada OK
?? China
Geological Society of China OK
?? Czechia / Slovakia
Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Geology) OK
?? Denmark
Dansk Geologisk Forening (Geological Society of Denmark) OK
?? Europe (Multi-national)
European Association of Science Editors OK
European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) OK
European Federation of Geologists (EFG) OK
European Geosciences Union (EGU) OK
European Volcanological Society OK
?? France
Société Géologique de France OK
?? Germany
Oberrheinischer Geologischer Verein OK
?? Hungary
Hungarian Academy of Sciences OK
?? India
Geological Society of India OK
?? Indonesia
Indonesian Association of Geologists (IAGI) OK
?? Ireland
Institute of Geologists of Ireland OK
?? Italy
Italian Geological Society OK
?? Japan
Geological Society of Japan OK
?? Malaysia
Geological Society of Malaysia OK
?? Netherlands
Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands (KNGMG) OK
Geologische Vereniging OK
?? New Zealand
Geoscience Society of New Zealand OK
Formerly Geological Society of NZ — renamed to Geoscience Society of NZ
New Zealand Geophysical Society MERGED
Old: nzgs.rsnz.org — domain defunct. Merged with Geological Society of NZ in 2010 to form Geoscience Society of NZ.
?? Norway
Geological Society of Norway OK
Norwegian Formation Evaluation Society (NFES) OK
Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) OK
?? Russia
Russian Academy of Sciences OK
?? Spain
Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Geólogos de España (ICOG) OK
?? Sweden
Geological Society of Sweden (Geologiska Föreningen) MOVED
Old: geologiskaforeningen.nu — society moved from .nu ccTLD to .se domain
?? Switzerland
Swiss Association of Geologists (CHGEOL) MOVED
Old: chgeol.org/index.asp — /index.asp path is broken; root URL works fine
?? United Kingdom
Geological Society (London) OK
Geologists’ Association OK
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (now part of IOM3) OK
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland OK
Palaeontological Association OK
Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB) OK
?? USA
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) OK
American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists OK
American Crystallographic Association OK
American Geophysical Union (AGU) OK
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) OK
American Institute of Professional Geologists (Texas) OK
Association of American State Geologists OK
Association of Earth Science Editors (AESE) OK
Geological Society of America (GSA) OK
Mineralogical Society of America OK
National Mining Association OK
Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) OK
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) OK
Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES) OK
Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) OK
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology OK
? International
Geochemical Society OK
International Association for Mathematical Geology (IAMG) OK
International Association of Sedimentologists OK
International Federation of Palynological Sciences (IFPS) FIXED
Old: geo.arizona.edu/palynology/ifps.html — Arizona Uni page outdated; IFPS now has its own site
International Organisation of Palaeobotany OK
International Mineralogical Association (IMA) OK
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) MOVED
Old: ww1.iucr.org — that is an archived 2008 snapshot, not the live site
International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) OK
Paleontological Society OK
Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) OK
Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) OK
Society of Organic Petrology (TSOP) OK