Ethics and Professional Geological (& Engineering) Organizations

• American Institute of Professional Geologists and their Code of Ethics (www.aipg.org)
• American Physical Society and their ethics and values statements (www.aps.org/statements/02.2.html) with links to ethics resources offered by other organizations.
• Association of Engineering Geologists and their Code of Ethics and Professional Practice Handbook that is available for download in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format at www.aegweb.org/publications/bulletin_index.pdf. (www.aegweb.org/indexf.html)
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists and their Code of Ethics, excerpted from the AAPG Constitution and Bylaws which are available for download in Microsoft Word .doc format from www.aapg.org/business/constitution_bylaws.doc or Adobe Acrobat .pdf format from www.aapg.org/business/constitution_bylaws.pdf. (www.aapg.org)
• IEEE Code of Ethics (www.ieee.org/about/whatis/code.html)

Ethics Centers and Institutes

• Association for Practical and Professional Ethics at Indiana University, Bloomington (www.indiana.edu/~appe/)
• Codes of Ethics Online, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology (www.iit.edu/departments/csep/PublicWWW/codes/engineer.html)
• Environmental Ethics from the Center for Environmental Philosophy at the University of Northern Texas (www.cep.unt.edu)
• The Ethics Connection of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University (www.scu.edu/ethics/)
• Ethics and Public Policy Center (www.eppc.org/default.asp)
• Josephson Institute of Ethics (www.josephsoninstitute.org)
• Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics at Dartmouth College (www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/ethics-inst/)
• Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (www.iit.edu/departments/csep/)
• Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University (www.ethics.harvard.edu)
• The Kenan Institute for Ethics (kenan.ethics.duke.edu/)
• Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (www.cceia.org)
• Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism and National Institute for Engineering Ethics
• Institute for Global Ethics (www.globalethics.org)
• Lawrence M. Hinman's Ethics Update site from the University of San Diego (ethics.acusd.edu)
• W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia (www.ethics.ubc.ca)

U.S. Government Ethics Resources

• U.S. Office of Government Ethics (www.usoge.gov/home.html)
• National Academy of Sciences, 1995, On being a scientist: responsible conduct in research [second edition]: Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/obas/.
• National Academy of Sciences, 2002, Integrity in scientific research, creating an environment that promotes responsible conduct: Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, www.nap.edu/books/0309084792/html/.
• National Academy of Sciences, 1992, Responsible Science, Volume I: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process: Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, www.nap.edu/catalog/1864.html.
• National Academy of Sciences, 1993, Responsible Science, Volume II: Background Papers and Resource Documents: Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, www.nap.edu/catalog/2091.html.
• Stow, S., 2002, Professionalism and ethics in science: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, www.csm.ornl.gov/Internships/SteveStowEthics/index.htm.

Other Ethics Sites

• Ethics links maintained by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics at Indiana University, Bloomington (www.indiana.edu/~appe/links.html)
• Ethics in Science from the Chemistry Department of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (www.files.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/ethics/)
• International Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ethics (www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/ethics.htm)
• OnlineEthics.org (onlineethics.org/index.html)
• Ethics and Science from Washington University Libraries, St. Louis (library.wustl.edu/subjects/generalsci/ethics.html)
• A page of links and information about ethics in science, kindly suggested by Amy Marshall, that is associated with a TV repair locator service (?!?): http://www.yext.com/tvrepair/articles/ethics-in-science.html

Other References and Resources

• Cronin, V.S., 1991, Engineering geology must be dominated by a public-safety-based ethic: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 5, p. A41.
• Cronin, V.S., 1993, A perspective on professional ethics in engineering geosciences, in Hoose, S. [editor], Proceedings of Symposium on Ethical Considerations in the Environmental Practice of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology: Association of Engineering Geologists National Meeting, San Antonio, p. 21-28.
• Cronin, V.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., 2000, Core courses and beyond -- Thoughts on academic training of engineering geologists: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 7, p. A518.
• Fernandez-Armesto, F., 1997, Truth, a history and a guide for the perplexed: New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 257 pp.
• Fox, F.L., 2003, Ethics - what is it? The Professional Geologist, v. 40, no. 6, p. 18-19.
• Gert, B., 1998, Morality, its nature and justification: New York, Oxford University Press, 408 pp.
• Jackson, C.I., 2000, Honor in science: Research Park Triangle, North Carolina, Sigma Xi, 41 pp.
• Kevles, D.J., 1998, The Baltimore case, a trial of politics, science and character: New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 509 pp.
• Martin, M.W., and Schinzinger, R., 1989, Ethics in engineering [second edition]: New York, McGraw-Hill, 404 pp.
• Planck, M., 1949, Scientific autobiography: London, Greenwood Press, 192 pp.
• Smith, D.H., 1978, Are there things we should not know? Hastings Center Report, v. 8, no. 12, p. 30-35.
• Snow, C.P., 1959, The search [revised edition]: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 350 p.
• Stow, S., 2002, Professionalism and ethics in science: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, www.csm.ornl.gov/Internships/SteveStowEthics/index.htm.
• Todorov, T., 1996, Facing the extreme, moral life in the concentration camps: New York, Metropolitan Books, 307 pp.
• Williams, J.W., and Cronin, V.S., 1997, Ethics in the engineering geology academic arena: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. A286.

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