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A lot of geology is funded by petrochemicals and mining companies, since they invest top dollar into figuring out what’s under us.

dredmorbius 2y ago
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the professional organisation of geology professionals, is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is an outlier amongst US professional science associations: - Physics: APS, College Park, MD - Astronomy: AAS, Washington, DC - Chemistry: ACS, Washington, DC - Biology: ASBMB, Rockville, MD; ASCB, Bethesda, MD; ESA, Washington, DC; AIbS, Washington, DC. - Psychology: APA, Washington, DC - Sociology: ASA, Washington, DC. - Political Science: APSA, Washington, DC. - Economics: AEA, Nashville, TN. (That last ... surprised me.)
- jacobolus 2y ago
  The members and officers of the AEA are geographically distributed at universities around the country, and their biannual conference moves around from city to city, but their Secretary–Treasurer is a professor at Vanderbilt (the previous Secretary–Treasurer was also a professor at Vanderbilt) and they have a permanent office in Nashville.
  - dredmorbius 2y ago
    Yeah, I get that. I'm just ... curious as to how the AEA came to be at Vanderbilt / Nashville, and if that's always been the case. I've searched a bit on the history w/o success. AEA was founded in Saratoga Springs, NY, by amongst others Richard T. Ely (interesting history), though I don't see any obvious Tennessee connection by him, or cofounders Katharine Coman (Wellesley College) or Edwin R.A. Seligman (Columbia University).
    - jacobolus 2y ago
      My impression is that Saratoga Springs is just where their first conference was. I don’t think they ever had an office there. I couldn't figure out in a brief search if they had a prior permanent office before the one in Nashville.
      - dredmorbius 2y ago
        That is in fact what I was trying to say about Sarasota Springs ;-) My next tack is to track down old copies of AEA journals (AER, J. Ec. Lit., J. Ec. Persp.) and see where they're published from or where they otherwise indicate location.

dredmorbius 2y ago

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the professional organisation of geology professionals, is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is an outlier amongst US professional science associations: - Physics: APS, College Park, MD - Astronomy: AAS, Washington, DC - Chemistry: ACS, Washington, DC - Biology: ASBMB, Rockville, MD; ASCB, Bethesda, MD; ESA, Washington, DC; AIbS, Washington, DC. - Psychology: APA, Washington, DC - Sociology: ASA, Washington, DC. - Political Science: APSA, Washington, DC. - Economics: AEA, Nashville, TN. (That last ... surprised me.)

jacobolus 2y ago
The members and officers of the AEA are geographically distributed at universities around the country, and their biannual conference moves around from city to city, but their Secretary–Treasurer is a professor at Vanderbilt (the previous Secretary–Treasurer was also a professor at Vanderbilt) and they have a permanent office in Nashville.
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  Yeah, I get that. I'm just ... curious as to how the AEA came to be at Vanderbilt / Nashville, and if that's always been the case. I've searched a bit on the history w/o success. AEA was founded in Saratoga Springs, NY, by amongst others Richard T. Ely (interesting history), though I don't see any obvious Tennessee connection by him, or cofounders Katharine Coman (Wellesley College) or Edwin R.A. Seligman (Columbia University).
  - jacobolus 2y ago
    My impression is that Saratoga Springs is just where their first conference was. I don’t think they ever had an office there. I couldn't figure out in a brief search if they had a prior permanent office before the one in Nashville.
    - dredmorbius 2y ago
      That is in fact what I was trying to say about Sarasota Springs ;-) My next tack is to track down old copies of AEA journals (AER, J. Ec. Lit., J. Ec. Persp.) and see where they're published from or where they otherwise indicate location.