David Perlman Award Committee

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DAVID PERLMAN AWARD COMMITTEE

Committee members

Name	Institution	Committee Role
Glennda Chui	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	Committee Chair
Anna Hogg	University of Leeds	Member
Becky Oskin	University of California Davis	Member
Megan Sever	Gneiss Editing	Member
Sonia Tikoo	Stanford University	Member
Hope Garland	AGU	Staff Partner; Specialist, Media Relations
Rebecca Dzombak	AGU	Staff Partner; Specialist, Media Relations

Committee overview and charge

Named for the distinguished science editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, the first David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism—News was presented at the 2000 Fall Meeting. The award recognizes excellence in science news reporting, defined as work prepared with a deadline of one week or less. It is presented annually to a journalist for a news story or series in any medium except books that makes information about the Earth and space sciences accessible and interesting to the general public.

Committee members are charged with the following duties:

1

Select the recipient of the Perlman Award; the final decision is subject for approval of the Council Leadership Team
2

Abide by AGU’s Honors Conflict of Interest Policy
3

Interpret the scope of the award broadly and keep in mind that as a Union award, it should reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the Earth and space sciences
4

Promote excellence and transparency and allow broad input and recognition beyond disciplinary awards
5

Promote diversity and commitment to equity to ensure that the awards are sufficiently representative of underrepresented groups
6

State, as part of the award recommendation to the Council Leadership Team, the number of candidates considered, how many candidates were holdovers, how many candidates are new,
7

Define the process used for reaching the decision

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Member duties

Work Plan

In addition to selecting Perlman Awardees, committee members:

Provide feedback to AGU about the Perlman Award’s selection processes to help ensure that the program is achieving AGU’s relevant goals
Discuss whether new and expanded approaches to soliciting nominations are needed and, if so, recommend approaches that should be tried and how they could be carried out
Recommend and implement strategies and initiatives on diversity
Participate in training and orientations conducted by the Honors and Recognition committee to be fully informed of policies, processes and program elements