Nominations for 2013 AGU journalism awards accepted through March 15

15 February 2013


WASHINGTON—The world’s largest organization of Earth and space scientists, the American Geophysical Union, is accepting nominations for its 2013 journalism awards through 15 March 2013.

This year, for the first time, AGU will accept nominations for all awards only in electronic form.  Nominations may be uploaded to AGU by means of online nomination forms.
In 2013, AGU plans to present the following three awards. The authoritative statements of the rules governing these awards and the awards’ nomination forms are available at links given below:

The Perlman and Sullivan awards each honor specific stories reported by journalists in the past year (i.e. 2013 awards honor 2012 stories). Journalists are welcome to nominate their own work for these awards, or someone may nominate a story on the reporter’s behalf. Each award consists of a plaque and a $5,000 stipend.

For the Perlman and Sullivan awards, nominations may be from any country, in any language (English translation required), and in any news medium, except books. Entries will be judged by how well they meet one or more of the following three criteria: brings new information or concepts about AGU sciences to the public’s attention, identifies and corrects misconceptions about AGU sciences, and makes AGU sciences accessible and interesting to general audiences, without sacrificing accuracy.

Only AGU members may submit nominations for the Cowen Award, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on Earth and space sciences. The Cowen Award consists of a crystal globe on a base with an engraved plate.

Nominations for all 2013 AGU journalism awards must be submitted by 15 March 2013. AGU will present the awards on 11 December 2013 at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

Questions? Please contact Peter Weiss, AGU Public Information Manager, at [email protected], or +1 202-777-7507.
AGU is a worldwide scientific community with more than 61,000 members. Its mission is to promote discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity.