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Arnold Dix

Arnold Dix is an Australian geologist, barrister, and tunnelling safety expert who led the 2023 rescue of 41 workers trapped for 17 days in India's collapsed Silkyara tunnel.

British Geological Survey

The British Geological Survey is the United Kingdom's national geological survey, founded in 1835 and described as the world's oldest, providing geoscientific data, advice, and mapping to government, industry, and the public.

Chikyū

Chikyū (ちきゅう), Japanese for Earth, is a Japanese deep-sea scientific drilling vessel operated by JAMSTEC. Launched in 2005, it was the world's first scientific drilling vessel with riser drilling technology.

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, also known as EPSL, is a peer-reviewed Elsevier journal founded in 1966 that publishes short, high-impact articles on Earth and planetary sciences.

Economic Geology (journal)

Economic Geology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering mineral deposits and their origin, description, and exploration. Published since 1905, it is the flagship journal of the Society of Economic Geologists.

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, also known as GCA, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering geochemistry and cosmochemistry, published by Elsevier since 1950 and jointly sponsored by the Geochemical Society and the Meteoritical Society.

Geological Magazine

Geological Magazine is a British peer-reviewed geology journal founded in 1864 by Henry Woodward and published by Cambridge University Press, one of the oldest continuously published Earth science periodicals.

Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of America, founded in 1888 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, supports geoscientists in more than 100 countries through meetings, publications, and grants.

Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, founded in 1807, is the world's oldest geological society and the UK's professional body for geoscience, based at Burlington House, Piccadilly.

Geological Survey of Canada

The Geological Survey of Canada is Canada's national geoscience organization, founded in 1842 under its first director William Logan and now part of Natural Resources Canada.

Geological Survey of India

The Geological Survey of India, founded in 1851 to find coal for the Railways, is the national earth-science agency under the Ministry of Mines, headquartered in Kolkata.

Geological Survey of Ireland

The Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), founded in 1845, is Ireland's national earth science center, providing free maps and data on groundwater, geohazards, and the seabed.

Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia is the Australian Government's national geoscience research and geospatial information agency, created in 2001 by merging AGSO and AUSLIG to support resource exploration, environmental management, and community safety.

International Commission on Stratigraphy

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the largest and oldest scientific body of the International Union of Geological Sciences, defines the periods, epochs, and ages of the geologic time scale.

Katia and Maurice Krafft

Katia and Maurice Krafft were French volcanologists, a married couple from Alsace who filmed and photographed eruptions at close range and died together on Mount Unzen, Japan, in 1991.

Mary Anning

Mary Anning (1799–1847) was an English fossil collector and palaeontologist whose finds in the Jurassic cliffs at Lyme Regis, Dorset, included the first complete ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons.

Mineralogical Society of America

The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a United States scientific membership organization, founded in 1919, that advances mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology and publishes American Mineralogist.

Sernageomin

Sernageomin (Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería) is Chile's national geology and mining service, created in 1980 to map the country's geology, monitor its volcanoes, and regulate mining safety.

Société Géologique de France

The Société Géologique de France (SGF, Geological Society of France) is a French learned society for the earth sciences, founded in Paris in 1830 and recognized as of public utility in 1832.

Society of Economic Geologists

The Society of Economic Geologists, founded in 1920, is a global nonprofit professional society advancing the geoscience of mineral resources, with over 6,000 members in more than 100 countries.

Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute

The Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) is a NASA institute funding multi-institutional research on the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and the moons of Mars.

United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a federal science agency of the Department of the Interior, created in 1879 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Vernadsky, also known as Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, was a Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who developed the modern concept of the biosphere and framed the noosphere.