Region: USA

Women’s Aquatic Network

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Diversity & Inclusion; Envionment/Sustainability; Oceanography; Policy/Governance; Socioeconomics; Coastal Communities

📍 Country/Region: USA


The Women's Aquatic Network (WAN) brings together professionals with interests in marine, coastal and The Women's Aquatic Network (WAN) is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization incorporated in 1985 in the District of Columbia that brings together professionals with interests in marine, coastal, and aquatic affairs. Membership and participation are open to all. The purpose of WAN is to facilitate networking by providing opportunities for professionals with interests in marine, coastal, and aquatic affairs in an atmosphere that encourages information exchange, career development, and fellowship.

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Western Society of Naturalists

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology

📍 Country/Region: USA

The Western Society of Naturalists is a scientific society with a strong focus on ecology, evolution, natural history, and marine biology. Its membership is primarily concentrated on the west coast of North America, though many members have spread far and wide. The main activity of the society is the annual meeting, held in November. This meeting is a great venue to hear exciting new biological research. The society prides itself on making the meeting accessible to students, with student membership only $5. At the meeting, it is not uncommon for half or more of the talks to be given by graduate students.

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The Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA)

📚 Category: Oceanography

🏷️ Topics include: Hydrography; Career Development Support; Hydrospatial; Oceanography

📍 Country/Region: USA

The Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to promoting education in hydrography, inshore surveying, inland waters surveying, offshore surveying, positioning and mapping/charting, including related earth sciences.

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The Geological Society of America

📚 Category: Earth Sciences

🏷️ Topics include: Geoscience; Career Development Support

📍 Country/Region: USA

The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. As a global membership society with 22,000 members (35% students) in 115 countries, the Society's primary activities are organizing scientific meetings and publishing scientific literature. Other activities include disbursing research grants, honoring outstanding scientific contributors with medals and awards, assisting teachers in geoscience education, and fostering public awareness of geoscience issues.

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National Shellfisheries Association

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Shellfish

📍 Country/Region: USA

Founded in 1908, the National Shellfisheries Association is an international organization of scientists, management officials and members of industry, all concerned with the biology, ecology, production, economics and management of shellfish resources - clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, snails, shrimp, lobsters, crabs, among many other species of importance.

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National Marine Educators Association

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Ocean Literacy

📍 Country/Region: USA

National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) is a dedicated, influential member-based organization of classroom teachers, informal educators, university professors, scientists, and more from around the world working together to advance the understanding and protection of our freshwater and marine ecosystems.

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National Audubon Society

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Birds; Policy/Governance

📍 Country/Region: USA

The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.

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National Association of Marine Laboratories

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Infrastructure

📍 Country/Region: USA

The mission of NAML and its three regional organizations is to promote excellence in research, education, and public outreach in the marine sciences. NAML also seeks to provide a forum for the resolution of challenges common to non-profit marine laboratories in the United States and to inform the wise use and conservation of marine and coastal resources. The Association is committed to establishing an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of NAML’s research, education, and outreach enterprise.

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National Association of Environmental Professionals

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Career Development Support

📍 Country/Region: USA

NAEP is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to developing the highest standards of ethics and proficiency in the environmental professions. Our members are public and private sector professionals who promote excellence in decision-making in light of environmental, social, and economic impacts of those decisions. NAEP provides the access and network for you to grow as a professional.

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Ecological Society of America (ESA)

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance; Career Development Support

📍 Country/Region: USA

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of scientists founded in 1915 to: promote ecological science by improving communication among ecologists; raise the public’s level of awareness of the importance of ecological science; increase the resources available for the conduct of ecological science; and ensure the appropriate use of ecological science in environmental decision making by enhancing communication between the ecological community and policy-makers.

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Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA)

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Aquariums; Infrastructure

📍 Country/Region: USA

The AZA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation.

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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)

📚 Category: Oceanography

🏷️ Topics include: Hydrology; Hydrospatial; Oceanography

📍 Country/Region: USA

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, formerly known as the Limnological Society of America and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, is a scientific society established in 1936 with the goal of advancing the sciences of limnology and oceanography.

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American Meteorological Society

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📚 Category: Oceanography

🏷️ Topics include: Meteorology; Climate Science; Hydrology; Hydrospatial; Atmospheric Science; Career Development Support; Oceanography

📍 Country/Region: USA

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

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American Institute of Professional Geologists

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📚 Category: Geology; Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Geoscience; Career Development Support

📍 Country/Region: USA

The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG), founded in 1963, is the largest association dedicated to promoting geology as a profession.

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American Institute of Biological Sciences

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance

📍 Country/Region: USA

We are a non-profit 501(c)3 public charity organization that advances the biological sciences for the benefit of all science and society. We work with like-minded organizations, funding agencies, and political entities to promote the use of science to inform decision-making.

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American Geophysical Union

📚 Category: Multidisciplinary

🏷️ Topics include: Policy/Governance; Diversity & Inclusion; Earth Sciences; Space Sciences

📍 Country/Region: USA

AGU is a global community supporting more than half a million advocates and professionals in the Earth and space sciences.

Through broad and inclusive partnerships, AGU aims to advance discovery and solution science that accelerate knowledge and create solutions that are ethical, unbiased and respectful of communities and their values. Our programs include serving as a scholarly publisher, convening virtual and in-person events and providing career support. We live our values in everything we do, such as our net zero energy renovated building in Washington, D.C. and our Ethics and Equity Center, which fosters a diverse and inclusive geoscience community to ensure responsible conduct.

AGU was established in 1919 by the National Research Council and operated as an unincorporated affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences for more than 50 years. We were independently incorporated in 1972.

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American Fisheries Society

📚 Category: Fisheries/Aquaculture

🏷️ Topics include: Fish; Fisheries Science; Career Development Support

📍 Country/Region: USA

The American Fisheries Society is the world’s oldest and largest organization dedicated to strengthening the fisheries profession, advancing fisheries science, and conserving fisheries resources.

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American Elasmobranch Society

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Elasmobranchs (Sharks, Skates, & Rays)

📍 Country/Region: USA

The American Elasmobranch Society is a non-profit organization that seeks to advance the scientific study of living and fossil sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras, and the promotion of education, conservation, and wise utilization of natural resources.

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American Cetacean Society

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Cetaceans

📍 Country/Region: USA

The American Cetacean Society (ACS) was founded in 1967 and is recognized as the first whale, dolphin, and porpoise conservation group in the world. For five decades, ACS has been dedicated to bringing education, current research, and critical conservation issues to people who care about cetaceans and the habitats on which they depend. ACS has long been the go-to resource for reliable information, with its governing board of specialists from all over the United States and its Scientific Advisory Council of internationally recognized researchers.

We are a national organization headquartered in San Pedro, California, and we see the energy and support for our mission growing daily. Our vibrant local chapters in Los Angeles, Orange County, Monterey, San Francisco, San Diego, Oregon, Puget Sound (Seattle) and our National Student Coalition host exciting monthly speakers, provide volunteer opportunities, and conduct citizen science projects to benefit cetacean education, conservation, and research.

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American Academy of Underwater Sciences

📚 Category: Ocean Professionals

🏷️ Topics include: Scuba Diving

📍 Country/Region: USA

The mission of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) is to advance and facilitate safe and productive scientific diving. The AAUS was officially chartered in California in 1983 by individuals and organizations involved in the effort to obtain the scientific diving exemption from OSHA commercial diving standards. In the years since, the AAUS has expanded from the original six organizational members to more than 130 organizational members and over 1100 individual members. Organizational membership includes colleges and universities, government agencies, museums and aquaria, environmental and archaeological consulting firms, and community science groups sharing a common thread of the use of diving as a research tool and a commitment to the health and safety of scientific divers. AAUS produces consensual standards for the training and certification of scientific divers and the operation of scientific diving programs, maintains statistics detailing scientific diving activities and incident rates, conducts annual symposia and topical workshops, and directly supports student research.

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