Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society
The Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society is an international, applied scientific organization that has 700 members. One of the society’s major activities is producing its annual meeting, the 'Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems. It develops and distributes a peer-reviewed scientific journal, the Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, as well as an electronic quarterly newsletter, FastTIMES. It publishes, markets, and distributes books and CD-ROMs on the application and use of near-surface geophysical technologies, both in print and electronically.
Mission
- to promote geophysics as applied to environmental and engineering problems,
- to foster scientific interests of geophysicists and their colleagues in other related sciences and engineering,
- to set a high professional standard for its members, and
- to promote fellowship and cooperation among persons interested in the science.
History
EEGS was founded in 1992 and is incorporated in the State of Colorado as a not-for-profit corporation and has approximately 700 international members. There are student chapters in North America and Canada. In addition, EEGS maintains ties with the near-surface geophysics section of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, the Near-Surface Geophysics Section of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Near-Surface Focus Group of the American Geophysical Union, and formal affiliated society agreements with several international professional societies.Meetings
SAGEEP
The annual meeting of the organization, known as the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems , is held in the late winter or early spring and provides geophysicists, engineers, geoscientists and end-users from around the world an opportunity to discuss near-surface applications of geophysics and learn about developments in near-surface geophysics.Since 1988 at the Colorado School of Mines, the symposium has been held over a five-day period at locations throughout the United States, with 150 oral and poster presentations, educational workshops, vendor presentations, and a commercial exhibition. A set of proceedings, comprising technical papers presented at the conference, is available online at EEGS’ Research Collection site.