The Association of American Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society founded in 1904 and aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography

Geography

Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...

 and related fields. Its headquarters are located at 1710 16th St NW, Washington, D.C.

History

The organization was founded on 29 December 1904 in Philadelphia, USA, and was amalgamated with the American Society of Professional Geographers on 29 December 1948 in Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

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Membership

Currently, the association has more than 10,000 members, from over 60 countries, and represents one of the largest geographical associations in North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

. AAG members are geographers and related professionals who work in the public, private, and academic sectors. They work in a wide range of careers, as community college instructors, federal, state and local government employees, planners, cartographers, scientists, non-profit workers, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, elementary and secondary educators, graduate students, retirees, university administrators, and so on from all over the world.

Specialty Groups

The AAG has over 60 specialty or affinity groups, voluntary associations of AAG members who share interests in regions or topics, such as:

Cartography

Cultural and Political Ecology

Cultural Geography

Economic Geography

Energy and Environment

Historical Geography

Political Geography

Rural Geography

Water Resources

Publications

The Annals of the Association of American Geographers and The Professional Geographer

The Professional Geographer

The Professional Geographer was originally a journal of the American Society of Professional Geographers, before it became a journal of the Association of American Geographers in 1949....

are the association's flagship journals.

External links

• The Association of American Geographers
• National Council for Geographic Education
• "Pope Valley School Cuts 1507 Globe Map for World Geography Month.", Riccardo Gaudino, America500tv. April 20, 2007.