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Association for Women Geoscientists Advertising Information and Rate Card

Contact the AWG Advertising Editor at ads@awg.org.

Rates and deadlines effective starting May 15, 2004.

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 more than 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 mailing 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 80 percent of AWG's more than 1000 members
  • Access to wider distribution throughout a diverse community via members' personal and informal networks
  • Corporate and institutional members receive preferred advertising rates

Print Advertising Opportunities

Gaea is the official bimonthly publication of the Association for Women Geoscientists; current circulation is 1100. 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 and the AWG Member Directory

Display advertising in the newsletter and the annual directory are charged by fractional page. Multiple insertions are charged at reduced rates; corporate and institutional members are eligible for member rates; contact the AWG Advertising Editor for details.

Size Inches (h x w) Per insertion cost
Full page 10 x 7 $350
Half page 5 x 7 $175
Third page 5 x 4.5 or 10 x 2.25 $120
Quarter page 5 x 3.5 $90
Sixth page 5 x 2.25 $60
Business card 2.25 x 1.25 $20

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 $4 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.

Corporate and institutional members of the Association are entitled to the member rate of $3.50 per line.

For all advertisers, multiple insertions of the same text will be charged at $3 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 $1.50 per 45-character line; multiple insertions of the same text, $1.25 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

Online Advertising (AWG website posting - JobWeb)

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 $50
Link from AWG JobWeb listing to your advertisement URL $30
Full text posted on AWG Opportunities for Students listing $25
Link from AWG Opportunities for Students listing to your URL $15

Online Advertising (AWG E-Mail News bulletins)

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 Rate for Corporate
and Institutional Members
"Positions Open" Distribute ad text via E-mail News only $50 $40
"Positions Open"
Additional distribution
Distribute same ad text via E-mail News
that also appears in a paid Gaea ad or paid JobWeb posting
$25 Free
"Opportunities for Students" Distribute ad text via E-mail News only $25 Free
"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
$15 Free

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.


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