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Professional Excellence Awards

AWG is announcing three new annual awards. These awards will go to women who, throughout their careers, have made distinguished contributions in each of the three following professional areas:

  • Government/regulatory,
  • Private industry/consulting and
  • Academia/research.

Nominations will be solicited from the AWG membership at large. Professional excellence is broadly defined, and may include accomplishments such as:

    1. breadth and depth of professional accomplishments
    2. mentoring of other geoscience professionals
    3. outreach and service activities
    4. membership in professional societies

Nominees need not be members of AWG and those without memberships will receive an honorary membership with their award. Recognition will be made at the GSA Annual Meeting and other appropriate annual meetings, in GAEA and online e-news. For nominations, please send the following items below as electronic files (.pdf preferred) to: office@awg.org or mail to: Association for Women Geoscientists, 12000 N. Washington St., Suite 285, Thornton, Colorado 80241

    (1) Send a one to two page letter summarizing the nominee's most important accomplishments in professional areas that demonstrates multidisciplinary geologic accomplishments within their realm of expertise;
    (2) The nominee's CV
    (3) Two letters of support, which can be from non?members of AWG, with a maximum of five letters.
    (4) Specify which of the three awards for which you are applying

Nomination deadline: Ongoing

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Updated 03/26/12
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