American Geographical Society

American Geographical Society

Abbreviation	AGS
Formation	1851
Headquarters	Manhattan
Location	121 Sixth Avenue, New York, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°43′27″N 74°00′19″W / 40.72409780°N 74.00527430°W / 40.72409780; -74.00527430[1]
President	Marie D. Price
Chairman	Christopher Tucker
Chief Executive Officer	John Konarski
Affiliations	American Council of Learned Societies
Website	americangeo.org
Formerly called	American Geographical and Statistical Society

History of geography
Graeco-Roman Chinese Islamic Age of Discovery History of cartography Historical geography Environmental determinism Regional geography Quantitative revolution Critical geography
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The American Geographical Society (AGS) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of fellows from around the world.^[2] The society encourages activities that expands geographical knowledge, and the interpretation of that knowledge so that it can be useful to geographers and other disciplines, especially in a policymaking environment. It is the oldest^[3] nationwide geographical organization in the United States. Over the century and a half of its existence, the AGS has been especially interested in three regions: the Arctic, the Antarctic, and Latin America. A signature characteristic of the AGS-sponsored exploration was the requirement that its expeditions produce tangible scientific results.