AGI and Member Society Position Statements

Member Society Position Statement Web Pages

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Position Statements Webpage
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) Public Policy Webpage
• American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) Position Statements and Policies Webpage (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar)
• Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) Papers and Position statements
• Association of American State Geologists (AASG) Position Statements Webpage
• Geological Society of America (GSA) Position Statements
• National Association of Geoscience Teachers
• National Ground Water Association (NGWA)
  
• Seismological Society of America (SSA) Public Policy Webpage
• Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Statements Webpage

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Data Preservation and Access

Geological and Geophysical Data

• AAPG: Preservation of Geological and Geophysical Data (12/00)
• AASG: Sample & Data Preservation (11/04; reaffirmed 9/07)
• AGU:  The Importance of Archiving and Availability of Geophysical Data (5/97; reaffirmed 5/06)
• GSA: Data Preservation (10/05)
• GSA: Open Access to Data (5/05)
• GSA: The Value of Geologic Mapping (11/03; revised 10/05)

Fossils

• SVP: Collecting, Documenting, and Curating Fossils
• SVP: About Dr. John Rensberger and the ethics of collecting vertebrate fossils
• SVP: Sale of Vertebrate Fossils Online (10/99)
  
• SVP: Paleontological Resources on Public Lands (joint statement with The Paleontological Society) (10/99)
• SVP: Hailing Fossil Preservation Bill

Public Land

• AAPG: Offshore OCS Leasing
• AAPG: Reformation of the Clean Water Act - Wetlands Access
• AAPG: Access to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (8/00)
• AIPG: Access to Public Lands (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar (2/03)
• SVP, PS: Paleontological Resources on Public Lands (10/99)
  

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Education

Earth Science Education

• AGU: Importance of the Earth and Space Sciences in Primary and Secondary Education: An Endorsement of the AAAS Benchmarks and NRC Standards (12/01; reaffirmed 12/05)
• GSA: Visas for Foreign Scientists and Students (5/05)
• GSA: The Importance of Teaching Earth Science in the Public Schools (4/04; revised 10/05)
• GSA: Scholarship and Professional Activity in Geoscience Public Policy and Geoscience Education (5/01)
• NESTA: The Importance of Earth Science Education (3/87; endorsed by AGI and 4 other societies)
• NGWA: Declaration of the Importance of Earth Systems Science Education (2/06)

Evolution in the Classroom

• AGI: Statement on Teaching Evolution (11/81; reaffirmed 12/03)
• AGU:  Biological Evolution and the History of the Earth Are Foundations of Science (12/01; reaffirmed 12/07)
• AWG: Science Curricula and the Teaching of Evolution in K-12 Classrooms (4/98; reaffirmed 3/07)
• GSA: Evolution (5/01; revised 10/06)
• NAGT: On Teaching Evolution (11/06)
• Paleontological Society: Evolution (4/03)
• The Society for Organic Petrology: Evolution Statement (2003)
• SVP: On Evolution (11/94)
  

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Energy

• AAPG: United States National Energy Supply
• AAPG: Natural Gas Supply Concerns (10/99)
• AASG: Energy (11/04; reaffirmed 9/07)
• AIPG: National Energy Policy (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar) (2/03)

Oil and Gas Exploration

• AAPG: United States and Canadian Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Resources
• AAPG: National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Access (8/00)
• AAPG: Alaska National Wildlife Refuge Access (8/00)
• AAPG: United States National Energy Supply
• AAPG: Tax Reform (2/99)
• AAPG: Natural Gas Supply Concerns (10/99)
• AAPG: Offshore OCS Access
• AAPG: Oil and Gas Workforce Needs in the 21st Century (8/99)

Nuclear Energy/Nuclear Waste

• AGU: Capability to Monitor the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (9/09; reaffirmed12/03)
• SSA: CTBT Position Statement (10/99)

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Environment

Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Land Use

• AAPG:  Reformation of the Endangered Species Act (9/99)
• AIPG: Aggregate Resources and Land-Use Planning (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar) (2/03)
• SSSA: Carbon Sequestration (10/01)
• SSSA: Agricultural Nutrient Management and Environmental Quality (2/00)
• NGWA: Superfund and Brownfields (3/01)

Climate Change

• AAPG: Climate Change Policy (10/99)
• AGI: Global Climate Change (1/99)
• AGU: Human Impacts on Climate (12/03; reaffirmed12/07)
• GSA: Global Climate Change (10/06)
• NGWA: Ground Water Protection and Management Critical to the Global Climate Change Discussion (3/07)
  

Water

• AAPG: Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing (8/99)
• AAPG: Reformation of the Clean Water Act - Wetlands Access (8/99)
• AASG: Groundwater (3/06; reaffirmed 9/07)
• AIPG: The Clean Water Act (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar) (1/96)
• AIPG: Groundwater Policy (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar) (1/96)
• AIPG: National Water Resources Policy (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar) (1/96)
• AIPG: The Safe Drinking Water Act (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar) (1/96)
• NGWA: Declaration of the Global Importance of Ground Water (12/05)
• NGWA: Ground Water Protection (5/90; reformatted 2/96)
• NGWA: Ground Water Remediation (5/90; reformatted 2/96)
• NGWA: Role of Government in Ground Water Protection (5/90; reformatted 2/96)
• NGWA : Ground Water Monitoring (6/93)
• NGWA : Ground Water Sustainability (2/04)
• NGWA: Ground Water Contamination from Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) (7/01; updated 1/04)
  

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Hazards

Natural

• AASG: Hazards (10/04; reaffirmed 9/07)
• AGU: Meeting the Challenges of Natural Hazards (12/96; reaffirmed 12/07)
• GSA: Geoscience and Natural Hazard Policy (10/05)
  
• SSA: In Support of Improved Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard Mitigation (1/05)
• SSA: Resolution in Support of the Advanced National Seismic Research and Monitoring System (2/99)
• SSA: Resolution in Support of the National Science Foundation's EarthScope Initiative

Manmade

• AGU: Capability to Monitor the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (9/09; reaffirmed12/03)
• SSA: CTBT Position Statement (9/00)

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Natural Resources

• AAPG: Reformation of the Clean Water Act - Wetlands Access (8/99)
• AAPG: Offshore OCS Access
• AAPG: Research & Development Needs (8/99)
• AASG: Mineral Resources (3/06; reaffirmed 9/07)
• AGU: Renewing Investment in Ocean Research (12/05)
• AIPG: Domestic Mineral Resources (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar) (2/03)
• AIPG: Statement on Wetlands (click on Policies in the left-hand navigation bar) (2/03)
  
  

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Science Policy

Science Policy

• AAPG: Research & Development Needs
• AASG: Geological Mapping (3/06; reaffirmed 9/07)
• AGU: Congressional Earmarking (5/88; reaffirmed 5/05)
• AGU: NASA: Earth and Space Sciences at Risk (5/05)
• AGU: The Need for Balance between Small and Large Science (4/96; reaffirmed 5/04)
• AGU: The Role of U.S. Government in Supporting Earth and Space Science Research (5/98; reaffirmed 5/06)
• GSA: The Government's Role in Energy and Mineral Resources (proposed, under the Proposed heading on the right-hand navigation bar)
• GSA: Scholarship and Professional Activity in Geoscience Public Policy and Geoscience Education (5/01)
• GSA: The Value of Geologic Mapping (11/03; revised 10/05)
• AIPG: Mission and Name of the United States Geological Survey (4/97)
• AIPG: Mergers Between the United States Geological Survey and Other Government Agencies (1/96)

Ethics and Professional Issues

• AGI: Guidelines for Ethical Professional Conduct (4/99)
• AIPG: Policy on the Exercise of Professional Judgement (3/98)
• AIPG: Policy on Relationships Between Professions (7/97)
• AIPG: Policy on State Registration/Licensing of Geologists (10/89)
• AWG: Diversity in the Science, Engineering and Technology Workforce (7/00)
• GSA: Scholarship and Professional Activity in Geoscience Public Policy and Geoscience Education (5/01)
• SVP: Statement on Ethics
  
  

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