The Council operates under an international Board of Directors to organize regional panels or other groups to compile, integrate, analyze and disseminate geospatial data. Leading scientists, their colleagues and students are encouraged to participate in Council activities. The Council seeks to work with other organizations that share the same scientific goal.

Over the past quarter century, the Council has sponsored five Pacific-wide conferences, six regional symposia and a dozen workshops in different countries; compiled and published over 60 regional geoscience and resources maps with accompanying explanatory booklets, and organized a geospatial data project in East Asia. The Circum-Pacific Map Project initially focused on compiling geologic, tectonic and resources data. It subsequently was broadened to include geohazard and environmental data and extended to cover the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The Council has published 16 volumes in its Earth Science Series and five volumes of conference transactions.

Conferences
Every four years, the Council convenes a major conference to challenge leaders from government, industry and academia to jointly address their mutual problems related to the growing demand in the Pacific region for energy and mineral resources. Each conference also challenges scientists to improve their assessments of resources in the region and to discover the more difficult-to-find energy and mineral deposits through the application of earth sciences research and new exploration technology.

Scientists from more than forty countries worldwide have attended these conferences to hear papers on topics such as framework geology, hydrocarbon assessment, mineral exploration techniques, geothermal energy, renewable energy applications, environmental problems, regional tectonism and volcanology.

Current Activities
Completion of the Circum-Pacific Map Series
Completion of the East Asia Geographic and Geotectonic Map Series
Completion of the Geospatial Data Project in East Asia and development of a similar project in Latin America
Organizing special symposia to address timely and important scientific problems
Conducting workshops and training sessions for developing countries
Facilitating and sponsoring specialized scientific projects needing international support
Publishing important results of its activities in the Earth Science Series

Annual Meeting 2007

Minutes of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Directors of the CPC