Advertising with AWG
Association for Women Geoscientists Advertising Information and Rate Card
Contact the AWG Advertising Editor at ads@awg.org.
Rates and deadlines effective starting October 7th, 2008.
Advertising with the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) provides a cost-effective opportunity for advertisers to target a large audience of women geoscientists. AWG publications reach a diverse audience of 1000 earth science professionals, educators and scholars - both women and men - who are members of the organization, plus corporations and institutions worldwide.
Advertising Venues and Benefits
- Cost-effective method of reaching a targeted audience of women geoscientists
- Direct distribution of Gaea newsletter six times per year to all members of the Association
- Additional distribution of an issue of Gaea at the GSA and AGU annual meetings
- The AWG web page is widely known and referenced
- AWG E-mail News bulletins reach well over 95 percent of AWG's membership
- Access to wider distribution throughout a diverse community via members' personal and informal networks
- Corporate and institutional members receive 10% off all advertising rates listed below
Print Advertising Opportunities
Gaea is the official bimonthly publication of the Association for Women Geoscientists; current circulation is about 1000. Publication of Gaea supports the goals of the Association through the exchange of professional, technical and educational information, including:
- technical articles
- news of the Association, and its programs and activities
- book and museum reviews
- issues of particular interest to women geoscientists
- career guidance
Display and column-line advertising in Gaea is available to individuals, businesses, educational institutions and organizations.
Additional copies of the September/October issue of Gaea are distributed free at AWG's exhibit booth and at Association events at the Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting. Additional copies of the November/December issue are similarly distributed at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting.
Display Advertising in Gaea
Display advertising in the newsletter is charged by fractional page. Multiple insertions are charged at reduced rates; contact the AWG Advertising Editor for details.
| Size | Inches (h x w) | Per insertion cost |
| Full page | 10 x 7 | $400 |
| Half page | 5 x 7 | $200 |
| Third page | 5 x 4.5 or 10 x 2.25 | $150 |
| Quarter page | 5 x 3.5 | $110 |
| Sixth page | 5 x 2.25 | $75 |
| Business card | 2.25 x 1.25 | $35 |
Please mail camera-ready black-and-white original for your display advertisement to the AWG Editor (click to see mailing address information, below). To submit a PDF file, send via e-mail to the AWG Editor. Please send billing information to AWG Advertising.
Column-Line Advertising in Gaea
Available classifications include "Positions Open," "Consultants, Services and Suppliers," "Opportunities for Students" and "Situations Wanted."
"Positions Open" and "Consultants, Services and Suppliers" advertisements in Gaea are charged at $7 per line (45 characters per line, including punctuation and blank spaces). Employment opportunities from entry-level through professional, open-ended searches from recruiting firms, and faculty positions beginning at the postdoctoral level are included in the "Positions Open" classification. Pricing is for one position per advertisement.
For all advertisers, multiple insertions of the same text will be charged at $5 per line in each sequential issue.
Advertising in "Opportunities for Students" includes notices of scholarships, internships, and fellowships. Advertisements placed in this classification are charged at the rate of $3 per 45-character line; multiple insertions of the same text, $2 per line.
"Situations Wanted" advertising is available to individual Association members only and is free of charge with a 200-word maximum.
To submit column-line classified advertising, please send plain text or a Word document and billing information to AWG Advertising, e-mail preferred.
Advertising Deadlines
Advertising copy or camera-ready art must be received by the tenth of January, March, May, July, September, November for publication later that month.
| Gaea Issue | Approximate Publication Date |
Deadline | Special Distribution |
| Jan/Feb | End of Jan | Jan 1 | |
| Mar/Apr | End of Mar | Mar 1 | |
| May/Jun | End of May | May 1 | |
| Jul/Aug | End of Jul | Jul 1 | |
| Sep/Oct | End of Sep | Sep 1 | GSA Annual Meeting |
| Nov/Dec | End of Nov | Nov 1 | AGU Annual Meeting |
JobWeb: AWG's website posting
See current postings at http://www.awg.org/eas/jobweb.html.
Pricing is per month, per position advertised.
| Full text posted on AWG JobWeb listing | $70 |
| Link from AWG JobWeb listing to your advertisement URL | $50 |
| Full text posted on AWG Opportunities for Students listing | $35 |
| Link from AWG Opportunities for Students listing to your URL | $20 |
E-News: AWG's E-mail News bulletin
To accommodate "Positions Open" advertisements with application deadlines too short to meet Gaea's publication schedule, or in conjunction with print or web advertising, we reach more than 80 percent of our members with direct AWG E-mail News bulletins. "Positions Open" and "Opportunities for Students" are accepted for inclusion in AWG E-mail News. AWG E-mail News bulletins are issued as needed to meet advertiser deadlines, and may also include time-sensitive news items and announcements of interest to Association members as well as other advertisements.
| Classification | Description | Rate |
| "Positions Open" | Distribute ad text via E-mail News only | $70 |
| "Positions Open" Additional distribution |
Distribute same ad text via E-mail News that also appears in a paid Gaea ad or paid JobWeb posting |
$50 |
| "Opportunities for Students" | Distribute ad text via E-mail News only | $35 |
| "Opportunities for Students" Additional distribution |
Distribute same ad text via E-mail News that also appears in a paid Gaea ad or paid JobWeb posting |
$20 |
Payment
Ads should be accompanied by a check, purchase order, or billing instructions. VISA and Mastercard are accepted. You will be invoiced after your ad has run. Checks should be made payable to AWG. AWG's Employer ID # is: 94-2514192.Contact Information
Please send ad text and billing information to AWG Advertising (rich text format or Word document) via e-mail:
ads@awg.org
Please send photo-ready materials as tiff or jpeg files via e-mail to: ads@awg.org
The AWG Editor has final determination in acceptance and classification of materials submitted. There are no commissions. Advertisers with specific deadlines or questions about advertising in AWG's publications should contact AWG Advertising for assistance. Rates are subject to change without notice.
