European Association Of Organic Geochemists

The European Association of Organic Geochemists (EAOG) was founded in 1983 and has its seat in The Hague. The organisation has strong European roots but boasts an international membership and pursues a global agenda. It seeks to promote organic geochemistry in its broadest sense by encouraging collaboration between its scientists and those from other disciplines. The EAOG has over 450 members and it is still increasing. In order to be a member of the EAOG they may not be only a European. Their members come from around the globe – the Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa and Europe – currently over 50 countries in all. Organic geochemistry is the study of the distribution, composition, and fate of organic matter throughout earth history, from the present day to the beginning of life on earth. Combining aspects of geology, chemistry, and biology, the discipline is like forensic science on a colossal time scale, with pieces of evidence – from molecular to microscopic scales – employed to reconstruct past events and ecosystems. Our research impacts the fields of Energy and The Environment, with organic geochemists actively involved in the exploration and exploitation of fossil energy resources like oil, gas, oil shales, tar sands, coal, studying pollution, and elucidating the earth’s present and past climates.