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This is a list of geoscience organizations, including such fields of geosciences as geology, geophysics, hydrology, oceanography, petrophysics, and related fields.

== Intercontinental organizations ==
Anthropocene Working Group
Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG)
Association of Applied Geochemists
Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society
Geochemical Society
International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment
International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG)
International Association of Cryospheric Sciences
International Association of GeoChemistry
International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS/AISH)
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) – International non-governmental organization
International Association for the Conservation of Geological Heritage ProGEO
International Centre for Diffraction Data
International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) – Non-governmental geological organization
International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences
International Continental Scientific Drilling Program
International Geoscience Programme
International Glaciological Society (IGS) – International glaciology academic organization
International Mineralogical Association
International Organization for Biological Crystallization
International Permafrost Association
International Union for Quaternary Research
International Union of Crystallography
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) – International non-governmental organization
International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) – International non-governmental organization
Geoscience Education, Training and Technology Transfer
International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) – International scientific union
OneGeology
Paleontological Society (PS)
Seismological Society of America (SSA) – International scientific society
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) – Non-profit scientific society
Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) – Scientific society
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) – Nonprofit geoscience organization
Society of Mineral Museum Professionals (SMMP) – Professional organization
Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) – American professional organization

== Africa ==
Council for Geoscience (CGS) – South African national science council
Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA)
Geological Survey of Tanzania
Nigerian Geological Survey Agency
Zimbabwe Geological Survey

== Asia ==
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
Central Geological Survey (CGS) – Government agency in Taiwan
Centre for Earthquake Studies – Pakistan
Crystallographic Society of Japan – Japan
The Chamber of Geophysical Engineers of Turkey
China Geological Survey (GSC) – Chinese government agency
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS)
Faculty of Earth Sciences, King Abdulaziz University – Saudi Arabia
Geological Society of Malaysia
Geological Society of Sri Lanka
Geological Survey of Bangladesh
Geological Survey of Japan
Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) – Government agency
Israel Geological Society
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) – Saudi Arabian department
Seismological Society of Japan
Instituto de Geociências de Timor-Leste (IGTL)

=== India ===
Geological Society of India
Geological Survey of India – Indian governmental organization
National Geophysical Research Institute
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology

== Europe ==
Albanian Geological Survey
Czech Geological Society
European Association of Geochemistry
European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) – Professional organization for geoscientists and engineers
European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
European Crystallographic Association
European Federation of Geologists (EFG)
European Geosciences Union (EGU) – International science society
GeoEcoMar – Romania
Geologica Belgica – Belgian scientific journal published by the University of Liège Library
Geological Survey of Austria (GBA)
Geological Survey of Belgium (GSB)
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Geological Survey of Finland
Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) – Norwegian government agence
Geological Survey of Slovenia
Geologiska föreningen – Sweden
German Crystallographic Society
German Geophysical Society (DGG; German: Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft)
German Mineralogical Society (DMG; German: Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft)
Iceland GeoSurvey
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) – Research institute in Italy

=== British Isles ===
Belfast Naturalists' Field Club – Northern Ireland
British Crystallographic Association
British Geological Survey (BGS)
British Organic Geochemical Society (BOGS)
British Society for Geomorphology
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre – England
Edinburgh Geological Society – Scotland
Geological Curators' Group – England
Geological Society of Glasgow – Scotland
Geological Society of London (GSL) – England
Geological Survey of Ireland
Geologists' Association (GA)
Rockwatch
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
Institute of Theoretical Geophysics
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
Oxford Geology Group
Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Palaeontographical Society
Palaeontological Association (PalAss) – Charitable organization
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) – British learned society and charity
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (RGSC) – England
Royal Geological Society of Ireland
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh – Scotland
Sedgwick Club – University of Cambridge, England
South Wales Geologists' Association (SWGA) – Wales
Westmorland Geological Society – England
Yorkshire Geological Society – England

=== France ===
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie
French Crystallographic Association
Société géologique de France

=== Russia ===
Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Mineralogical Society
Siberian Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineral Resources
Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum-Gas Geology and Geophysics
V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy

== Americas ==
Institute on Lake Superior Geology – US and Canada (Lake Superior region)
Mexican Geological Society (SGM) – Mexican learned society
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) – North American organization
Pan American Institute of Geography and History

=== Canada ===
Alberta Geological Survey
Mineral Core Research Facility
Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario – Professional organization of Canada
Atlantic Geoscience Society
CAMESE (Canadian Association of Mining Equipment and Services for Export) – Trade organization based in Mississauga, Ontario
Canadian Geophysical Union
Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM)
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists – Canadian professional society
Decennial Mineral Exploration Conferences (DMEC)
Geological Association of Canada
Geological Survey of Canada (GAC) – Government agency
Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador
Lithoprobe (dissolved)
Ontario Geological Survey
Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)

=== Central and South America ===
Colegio de Geólogos – Chile
Colombian Geological Survey
Costa Rican Directorate of Geology and Mines
INGEMMET – Peru
National Geology and Mining Service – Chile
Servicio Geológico Minero – Argentina
Sociedad Geológica del Perú
Sociedade Brasileira de Geofísica – Brazil
UWI Seismic Research Centre – Trinidad