Member Directory
Last Updated: 5 March 2024
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| Member Name | Acronym | Member Type | Host Institution | Country | Scientific Fields |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Académie des Sciences | Associate | France | National Scientific Academy | ||
| Alaska Satellite Facility | ASF | Regular | NASA | United States | Earth Sciences, Geography, Cryosphere, Polar Processes, Solid Earth, Magnetosphere, Alaska Geography |
| Arab Council for the Social Sciences | ACSS | Associate | Lebanon | Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Economics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, History, Languages and Linguistics, Anthropology, Archaeology | |
| Archaeology Data Service | ADS | Regular | University of York | United Kingdom | Environmental Studies, Forestry, Anthropology, Archaeology |
| Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data Center | ARM Data Center | Regular | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | United States | Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science, Climate Science |
| Atmospheric Science Data Center | ASDC | Regular | NASA | United States | Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science, Clouds, Aerosols, Tropospheric Chemistry |
| Australian Antarctic Data Centre | AADC | Regular | Australian Government | Australia | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, Environmental Studies and Forestry |
| Australian Data Archive | ADA | Regular | Australian National University | Australia | Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Economics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Business, Family and Consumer Science, Health Sciences, Transportation, History, Area Studies, Social Science |
| Australian Ocean Data Network | AODN | Regular | University of Tasmania | Australia | |
| Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office | BCO-DMO | Regular | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | United States | Earth Science, Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, Chemical Oceanography, Biological Oceanography, Geological Oceanography, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Atmospheric Sciences |
| Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory | BAO | Associate | Republic of Armenia | Armenia | Astronomy, Space Sciences, Physics, Computer Sciences |
| California Digital Library | CDL | Regular | University of California | United States | Cross-disciplinary |
| Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre | CCDC | Regular | Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre | United Kingdom | Chemistry, Crystallography |
| Canadian Astronomy Data Centre/Canadian Virtual Observatory | CADC | Regular | Canada | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space Sciences | |
| Canadian Cryospheric Information Network/Polar Data Catalogue | CCIN | Regular | University of Waterloo | Canada | Earth Sciences, Clinical and Life Sciences, Chemistry, Social Psychology, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Environmental Science, Transportation, History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Oceanography, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science |
| Center for Socio-Political Data/Centre de données socio-politiques | CSDP | Regular | Sciences Po | France | Social Sciences, Sociology, Political Science |
| Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg | CDS | Regular | University of Strasbourg; National Center for Scientific Research | France | Astronomy, Space Sciences |
| Centre for Astronomical Data of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences | INASAN | Regular | Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Russian Federation | |
| Chilean Virtual Observatory | ChiVO | Associate | Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María | Chile | Astronomy, Computer Sciences, Astroinformatics |
| China National GeneBank DataBase | CNGBdb | Regular | China National GeneBank | China | Bioinformatics |
| Chinese National Space Science Data Center | NSSDC | Regular | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | |
| Cold and Arid Regions Science Data Center at Lanzhou | CARD | Regular | Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Earth Sciences, Geography |
| Committee on Electronic Information and Communication | CEIC | Associate | International Mathematical Union | Germany | Mathematics, International Scientific Committee |
| Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure - European Research Infrastructure Consortium | CLARIN ERIC | Network | Netherlands | Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics, History, Language and Linguistics | |
| Crustal Dynamics Data Information System | CDDIS | Regular | NASA | United States | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences, Physics, Geodesy, Space Geodesy |
| Data Archiving and Networked Services | DANS | Regular | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Dutch Research Council | Netherlands | Life Sciences, Economics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Health Sciences, History, Languages and Linguistics, Anthropology, Archaeology, Behavioural Sciences, Socio-Cultural Sciences, Geospatial Sciences, Communication Sciences, Demography |
| Data Centre for Geography, Moscow | Regular | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation | ||
| DataCite | Associate | German National Library of Science and Technology | Germany | Data Access, Citation, and Archiving | |
| DataFirst | Regular | University of Cape Town | South Africa | Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Economics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Agriculture, Environmental Studies and Forestry, Family and Consumer Science, Health Sciences, Transportation, Area Studies | |
| Datta Meghe Institute Of Medical Sciences | DMIMS | Associate | Deemed University | India | Public Trust |
| Digital Repository of Ireland | DRI | Regular | Royal Irish Academy | Ireland | |
| Division of History of Science and Technology | DHST | Associate | International Union of History and Philosophy of Science | Greece | Division Of International Scientific Union |
| Earth Resources Observation and Science Center | EROS | Regular | US Geological Survey | United States | Earth Sciences, Geography, Systems Science, Environmental Studies and Forestry, Remote Sensing, Land Change Science, Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Prediction |
| Elsevier | Associate | Netherlands | Science Publishers | ||
| Environmental Information Data Centre | EIDC | Regular | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | United Kingdom | Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies and Forestry |
| Federation of Earth Science Information Partners | ESIP | Partner | Foundation for Earth Science | United States | Network Data Community |
| Fish Database of Taiwan | Regular | Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica | Taiwan (ROC) | ||
| Flanders Marine Institute, Data Centre | Regular | VLIZ | Belgium | ||
| Geoscientific Data & Discovery Publishing System | GDD | Regular | National Geological Archives of China | China | Earth Sciences, Engineering, Geological Data Sciences |
| Global Biodiversity Information Facility | GBIF | Regular | GBIF Secretariat | Denmark | |
| Global Change Research Data Publishing and Repository | GCdataPR | Regular | Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | |
| Global Geodetic Observing System | GGOS | Partner | German Federal Agnecy for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) | Germany | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geodesy |
| Global Hydrology Resource Center | GHRC | Regular | NASA | United States | Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences, Systems Science, Environmental Studies and Forestry, Hydrologic Cycle, Lightning, Severe Weather |
| GO FAIR US | GO FAIR US | Associate | San Diego Super Computer | United States | Fair, Multidisciplinary |
| Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center | GES DISC | Regular | NASA | United States | Earth Sciences, Physics, Geography, Computer Sciences, Agriculture, Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Precipitation, Hydrology, Global Modelling, Information Science, Systems Engineering |
| ImmPort Repository | Regular | US Health & Human Services | United States | Life Sciences | |
| Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology | IRIS | Regular | National Science Foundation | United States | |
| Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance | IEDA | Regular | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University | United States | Earth Sciences, Geochemistry |
| International Real-time Magnetic Observatory Network | INTERMAGNET | Network | Various | United Kingdom | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences |
| International Association of Hydrological Sciences | IAHS | Associate | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics | France | Earth Sciences, International Scientific Association |
| International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers | STM | Associate | Netherlands | Science Publishers | |
| International Commission for Acoustics | ICA | Associate | Spain | International Scientific Committee | |
| International Council for Scientific and Technical Information | ICSTI | Associate | ICSTI | France | Scientific and Technical Information |
| International DORIS Service | IDS | Network | International Association of Geodesy | France | Earth Sciences, Space Sciences, Geodesy, Geophysics |
| International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems | IERS | Regular | Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy | Germany | |
| International Environmental Data Rescue Organization | IEDRO | Associate | United States | Data Rescue | |
| International GNSS Service | IGS | Network | NASA | United States | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geodesy, Gps, Gnss, Precise Positioning, Navigation, and Timing |
| International Laser Ranging Service | ILRS | Network | NASA | United States | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences, Physics, Geodesy, Space Geodesy |
| International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange | IODE | Network | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO | Belgium | Earth Sciences, Oceanography |
| International Service of Geomagnetic Indices | ISGI | Regular | School & Observatory of Earth Sciences (EOST) University of Strasbourg | France | |
| International Space Environment Service | ISES | Network | United States | Earth Sciences, Space Sciences, Space Weather, Solar-Terrestrial Physics | |
| International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics | IUGG | Partner | Germany | International Scientific Union | |
| International Union of Geological Sciences | IUGS | Associate | Germany | International Scientific Union | |
| International Virtual Observatory Alliance | IVOA | Network | IVOA | Canada | Astronomy |
| International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry | IVS | Network | NASA | United States | |
| Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research | ICPSR | Regular | University of Michigan | United States | Economics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics, Family and Consumer Science, Health Sciences, History,Aging, Criminal Justice, Demography, Education, Law, Substance Abuse |
| ISC Committee on Data for Science and Technology | CODATA | Associate | France | International Interdisciplinary Body | |
| Italian Centre for Astronomical Archive | IA2 | Regular | INAF | Italy | Astronomy, Space Sciences |
| John Wiley & Sons Ltd | Wiley | Associate | United Kingdom | Science Publishers | |
| Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information | KISTI | Regular | Korea | National Research Institute | |
| Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center | LP DAAC | Regular | USGS | United States | Earth Sciences, Geography, Agriculture, Environmental Studies and Forestry, Land Cover, Land Change, Land Processes |
| Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System Distributed Active Archive Center | LAADS DAAC | Regular | NASA | United States | Earth Sciences |
| Mountain Research Initiative | MRI | Partner | University of Bern | Switzerland | Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Geography, Political Science, Systems Science, Agriculture, Environmental Studies and Forestry, History, Anthropology, Archaeology |
| NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System | NASA ESDIS | Network | NASA | United States | Earth Sciences, Physics, Geography, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Systems Science, Engineering, Environmental Studies and Forestry |
| National Astronomical Data Center | NADC | Regular | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | |
| National Center for Atmospheric Research | NCAR | Regular | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | United States | Earth Sciences, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |
| National Centers for Environmental Information | NCEI | Regular | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | United States | |
| National Geoscience Data Centre | NGDC | Regular | British Geological Survey | United Kingdom | |
| National Marine Data Center | NMDC | Regular | National Marine Data and Information Service | China | |
| National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center | NSIDC DAAC | Regular | NASA | United States | |
| Neotoma Paleoecological Database | Neotoma | Regular | United States | ||
| Norwegian Marine Data Centre | NMD | Regular | Institute of Marine Research | Norway | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center | ORNL DAAC | Regular | NASA | United States | |
| Ocean Biology Data Active Archive Center | OB.DAAC | Regular | NASA | United States | |
| Ocean Networks Canada | ONC | Regular | University of Victoria | Canada | Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Geophysics, Ocean Physics, Marine Biology, Biochemistry, Marine Engineering |
| Odum Institute Data Archive | Regular | The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Social Sciences | |
| Open Researcher and Contributor ID | ORCiD | Partner | ORCID, Inc | United States | Registry Of Persistent Identifiers |
| OpenAIRE | OpenAIRE | Partner | Greece | Scientific Research and Data Open Access Initiative | |
| Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures | PARADISEC | Regular | University of Sydney; University of Melbourne; Australian National University | Australia | Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Anthropology, Musicology |
| PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science | PANGAEA | Regular | Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; and Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research | Germany | Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Geography, Sociology, Environmental Studies and Forestry |
| Past Global Changes | PAGES | Partner | Switzerland | Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Natural and Human Sciences | |
| Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level | PSMSL | Regular | NOC/NERC | United Kingdom | Earth Sciences, Physics, Sea Level, Climate Change, Oceanography, Geodesy |
| Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center | PO.DAAC | Regular | NASA | United States | Earth Sciences, Oceanography |
| Research Council of Zimbabwe | RCZ | Associate | Zimbabwe | National Scientific Society | |
| Research Data Alliance | RDA | Associate | European Commission, the National Science Foundation and other U.S. agencies, and the Australian Government | United States | International Data Sharing Initiative |
| Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University | RISH | Regular | Kyoto University | Japan | Astronomy, Space Sciences, Earth Sciences, Engineering |
| Royal Society Te Apārangi | Associate | New Zealand | National Scientific Society | ||
| Scientific Committee On Solar Terrestrial Physics | SCOSTEP | Partner | Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science | Canada | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences |
| Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center | SEDAC | Regular | NASA | United States | |
| Southern Ocean Observing System | SOOS | Partner | Institute for Marine and Antactic Studies; University of Tasmania | Australia | Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, Statistics, Systems Science, Environmental Studies and Forestry |
| Survey Research Data Archive | SRDA | Regular | Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica | Taiwan (ROC) | |
| Swedish National Data Service | SND | Regular | University of Gothenburg | Sweden | |
| The Language Archive | TLA | Regular | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | Netherlands | Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Psychology, Languages and Linguistics, Anthropology |
| Ukrainian Geospatial Data Center | Regular | Space Research Institute of Ukraine | Ukraine | Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences, Mathematics | |
| UNAVCO, Inc. | Regular | National Science Foundation | United States | Earth Sciences, Geodesy | |
| University of Tennessee Oak Ridge Innovation Institute | UT-ORII | Partner | University of Tennessee; Oak Ridge National Laboratory | United States | |
| WDC - National Snow and Ice Data Center | NSIDC | Regular | National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado | United States | Earth Sciences, Geography, Cryosphere |
| World Data Center for Renewable Resources and Environment | WDC-RRE | Regular | Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Earth Sciences, Geography, Environmental Studies and Forestry, Area Studies, Natural Resources, Ecology, Geoinformatics |
| World Data Center for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Moscow | WDC for STP | Regular | Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Russian Federation | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geomagnetic Variations, Ionospheric Phenomena, Cosmic Rays, Solar Activity and Interplanetary Medium |
| World Data Center for Sunspot Index and Long-term Solar Observations | SILSO | Regular | Royal Observatory of Belgium | Belgium | Astronomy, Space Sciences, Statistics, History, Solar Physics, Solar Activity (Mid- and Long-Term), Sun-Earth Relations and Climate |
| World Data Center for Geophysics, Beijing | WDC - Geophysics, Beijing | Regular | Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Space Sciences, Earth Sciences |
| World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow | WDC for SEP | Regular | Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Russian Federation | Earth Sciences, Seismology, Geomagnetism (Main Magnetic Field), Archeo- and Paleo-Magnetism, Gravimetry, Geothermics, Recent Movements, Marine Geology and Geophysics |
| WFCC - MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms | WDCM | Regular | China | Life Sciences, Microbiology | |
| World Data Center for Climate | WDCC | Regular | German Climate Computing Center | Germany | |
| World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development | WDC-Ukraine | Regular | National Technical University of Ukraine | Ukraine | |
| World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Copenhagen | Regular | National Space Institute | Denmark | ||
| World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Edinburgh | WDC for Geomagnetism, Edinburgh | Regular | British Geological Survey | United Kingdom | |
| World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto | WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto | Regular | Kyoto University | Japan | |
| World Data Center for Ionosphere and Space Weather | WDC - ISW | Regular | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology | Japan | |
| WDC for Meteorology | Regular | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | United States | ||
| World Data Center for Meteorology, Obninsk | WDC - Meteorology, Obninsk | Regular | All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information | Russian Federation | |
| World Data Center for Oceanography, Obninsk | WDC - Oceanography, Obninsk | Regular | All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information | Russian Federation | |
| World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere | WDC-RSAT | Regular | German Aerospace Center (DLR) | Germany | |
| World Data Center for Solar Activity/BASS2000 | WDC-Solar Activity | Regular | Observatoire de Paris - PSL | France | |
| WDC - Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre | ASWFC | Regular | Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology | Australia | Space Sciences, Ionosphere, Solar Observations, Geomagnetism, Solar–Terrestrial Physics, Space Weather |
| World Data Centre for Soils | WDC-Soils | Regular | ISRIC World Soil Information | Netherlands | |
| WDS for Geophysics | Regular | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | United States | Earth Sciences, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geology, Natural Resources | |
| World Data Service for Oceanography | WDS for Oceanography | Regular | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | United States | Life Sciences, Oceanography |
| World Data Service for Paleoclimatology | WDS for Paleoclimatology | Regular | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | United States | Earth Sciences, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, Global Change |
| World Glacier Monitoring Service | WGMS | Regular | University of Zurich | Switzerland | Earth Sciences, Geography, Glaciology |
| World Stress Map Project | WSM Project | Regular | Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences | Germany | Earth Sciences, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geology, Natural Resources |
| Worldwide Protein Data Bank | wwPDB | Regular | Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank; Protein Data Bank in Europe; Protein Data Bank Japan; Electron Microscopy Data Bank; Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank; Protein Data Bank China | United States | Life Sciences, Structural Biology |
| WorldWideScience Alliance | WWS | Associate | U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information | United States | Global Science Portal |