Management and Council
The administration of AOGS is entrusted to the Council comprising an Executive Committee, Section Presidents, the Assistant Secretary and the Assistant Treasurer.
AOGS Executive Committee comprises:
- A President
- A Vice-President
- A Secretary General
- A Treasurer
AOGS Sections
The formation of new Sections and the reorganization of Sections must be approved by the Council and ratified by an Annual General Meeting.
Each Section shall have its own Section President, Section Vice-President and one or more Section Secretaries.
Atmosphere Sciences (AS)
Small scale and local wind systems, air pollution, mesoscale processes, global wind systems, cyclones, weather forecasting, atmospheric chemistry, global climate and its change
Biogeosciences (BG)
Aspects of the interactions between the biological, chemical and physical processes in terrestrial or extra-terrestrial life with the geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere as well as the role of humans therein. Examples of what BG covers include biogeochemistry, microbial and evolutionary biology, biogeophysics, paleoclimatology, planetary biology
Hydrological Sciences (HS)
Hydrometeorology, Surface Water Hydrology, Ground Water Hydrology, Water Resources Planning and Management, Hydroinformatics
Interdisciplinary Geosciences (IG)
All geoscience themes that cross disciplinary boundaries. For example: natural hazards, geoscience education & outreach, earth-atmosphere interaction, global environmental change, coastal processes, catchment processes, geoarchaeology, remote sensing, polar research
Ocean Sciences (OS)
Estuarine and coastal oceanography, ocean circulation, marine biogeochemistry, palaeoceanography, marine geology, and atmosphere-ocean coupling
Planetary Sciences (PS)
Interior, surface, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and upper atmosphere of solar system bodies other than earth
Solar and Terrestrial Sciences (ST)
Sun, interplanetary medium, heliosphere, the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and upper atmosphere of planet earth, space weather
Solid Earth Sciences (SE)
Geology, geodesy, geophysics, geochemistry