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| Active Member | $20.00 |
| Associate Member | $20.00 |
| Student Member | $4.00 |
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EMD Membership
A mature society, EMD has more than 1,200 members in countries around the world. In the United States, a member is assigned to one of six regional sections based upon his/her mailing address.
By Region/Section
| Eastern Section | 13% |
| Gulf Coast Section | 26% |
| Southwest Section | 11% |
| Mid-Continent Section | 9% |
| Rocky Mountain Section | 20% |
| Pacific Section | 6% |
| Canada Region | 5% |
| 9% | |
| As of December 2008 |
By Employment
| Oil Companies | 28% |
| Consultants/Independents | 33% |
| Educational Institutions | .04% |
| Environmental Companies | .01% |
| Service Companies | .04% |
| U.S. Department of the Interior | .02% |
| National Government | .01% |
| State Government | .05% |
| Mining Companies | <1% |
| Other Employment | <1% |
| Retired | .04% |
| Students | .06% |
| Unknown | .04% |
| As of December 2007 |
These statistics are measured by AAPG at the end of each year.
The Energy Minerals Division (EMD) is one of three divisions of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the largest professional association of geoscientists in the world. Organized in 1977, EMD serves as an international forum for those working in the exploration, development, and production of energy sources other than conventional oil and natural gas.
The purpose of EMD is to serve AAPG members by advancing the science of economic geology as it relates to common energy resources (such as uranium (nuclear minerals), coal and lignite (carbon minerals), geothermal energy (hot water), and to the unconventional hydrocarbons (including coal-bed methane, gas hydrates, gas shales, oil shale, and oil sands), and more recently to renewable energy resources (wind, solar, tidal, etc). To this mix has been added the associated technical resources on energy economics and technology, and supporting tools, such as geospatial information (remote sensing and GIS).
EMD members actively participate in the society by helping to organize or support local society meetings, regional, national or international meetings, symposia, workshops, short courses, and field trips, and by publishing in the AAPG Bulletin, the AAPG EXPLORER, and in EMD special publications. EMD also provides a forum for addressing the sciences involved and in the associated economics involved in developing the commodities to promote the integration of geoscientific knowledge with those in related professions and activities.
Technical Commodity Committees include:
Commodity Committees
- Coal
- Coalbed Methane
- Gas Hydrates
- Gas Shales
- Geothermal Energy
- Oil (Tar) Sands
- Oil Shale
- Renewable Energy (Wind, Solar, etc.)
- Tight Gas Sands
- Uranium (Nuclear Minerals)
Supporting Committees
Cooperative Activities
- Division of Environmental Geosciences (DEG)
- Division of Professional Affairs (DPA)
- AAPG Astrogeology Committee
- On-Line Ethics Course
The On-line Ethics Course offered by the DPA is designed for the oil and gas industry but the principles and circumstances discussed apply equally well to all EMD and DEG activities. - Upcoming Events
- New Orleans AAPG (2010)
- Houston AAPG (2011) TBA
- Search and Discovery within AAPG and Internet
- Community Home Page (Committee Bulletin Boards / Forums)
If you have any questions about EMD, feel free to send me an e-mail . I’ll respond as soon as I can.
Enjoy your work,
Regards,
Frank Walles
President, EMD (2009-2010)
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