Appendix G: Abbreviations of Organizations

AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science

AAPG American Association of Petroleum Geologists, publishers of the Bulletin of the AAPG
AEG Association of Engineering Geologists
AGI American Geological Institute
AGL Allied Geophysical Laboratories of University of Houston
AGU American Geophysical Union
AIMME American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
AIP American Institute of Physics
AIPG American Institute of Professional Geologists
AMS American Mathematical Society
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API American Petroleum Institute
ASEG Australian SEG
BIRPS British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate
BLM Bureau of Land Management
CSEG Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
EAGE European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, formerly EAEG, publishers of
Geophysical Prospecting and First Break.
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
GSA Geological Society of America
IAGC International Association of Geophysical Contractors
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
IFP Institut Français du Petrole
IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
KEGS Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society
MMS U.S. Minerals Management Service
NOAA U.S. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OTC Offshore Technology Conference
SEG Society of Exploration Geophysicists, publishers of GEOPHYSICS and
THE LEADING EDGE.
SEGE Society of Economic Geologists
SEPM Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
SIPES Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists
SPE Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME
UKOOA United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association
USGS United States Geological Survey

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