Call for Entries: Environmental Communications Awards

Your organization has been especially successful in communicating complex and challenging issues to the public and other important audiences. Through your efforts, citizens, environmental conservation groups, town councils, state and national legislative bodies, private sector companies, and others have come to realize the value and importance of your projects, and their economic and public health benefits. If that sounds familiar to you, get the recognition you deserve by entering the AAEES Environmental Communications Award competition. Winning entries are automatically qualified to enter the International Water Association's PIA Awards in the category of Marketing and Communications.

Here are the criteria for judging the Environmental Communications Award:

• Innovative approach to messaging or branding
• Future value to the water engineering profession
• Creativity and clarity in portraying and communicating the messages
• Effectiveness in delivery and achieving desired outcome
• Integrated Design Approach - Narrative and visual elements work together to achieve the communication objectives.

This award is designed to recognize environmental communication efforts by industrial entities; municipal, state and federal governments; and consulting firms who work to convey the important environmental messages to their constituencies and other interested parties.

The deadline for entries is March 1, 2016. The winners will be announced at the 2016 AAEES Annual Awards Luncheon and Technical Conference to be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Entry guidelines, submission forms, and previous winning entries available at http://www.aaees.org/environmentalcommunicationsawards.php.

Call for Entries - AAEES Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Competition

The Academy is extremely excited to announce the call for entries for the 2016 E3S awards! This is your chance to show off your unparalleled expertise in your area of Environmental Engineering and Science. This year's ceremony is already proving to be our most exciting and prestigious competition to date. We could not be more ecstatic to share a glass of champagne and have the opportunity to recognize the very best of the best. Details and guidelines are as follows:

The Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science (E3S) Awards recognize world-class, state-of-the-art advances in environmental engineering and science. Winners of the E3S Awards:

• Receive public and professional recognition;
• Accept trophies at the world-renowned National Press Club, Washington, D.C.;
• Receive speaking invitations; and
• Qualify for the International Water Association (IWA) global competition.

Entry Categories

• Research - of a basic or applied nature that advances the state of the art of environmental engineering or science.
• Planning - related to an environmental control project, system or environmental management facilities or activities.
• Design - of pollution control or other environmental facilities.
• Operations/Management - of pollution control or other environmental facilities, prevention programs, or environmental regulatory programs (federal, state or local).
• University Research - of a basic or applied nature under the direction of a full-time faculty member. Third parties can "nominate" another for the award and provide the entry materials.
• Small Projects - Any category above related to a potential or actual capital expenditure of $5 million or less or an operation or management activity with an annual budget of $500,000 or less.
• Small Firms - Any category above conducted by a small firm with annual gross revenue of $5,000,000 or less.
• Environmental Sustainability - the support of the quality of life while living within the carrying capacity of all systems. A long term balance of environmental stewardship, economic development, and social well being is achieved, including renewable resources timely regenerated, timely substitute replacement of nonrenewable resources, harmful substances absorbed timely or made harmless.
• Industrial Waste Practice Award - recognizes outstanding projects that incorporate innovative management and technological approaches to industrial water and waste management issues at pilot or full scale, in: treatment of water for industrial uses; reclamation of industrial liquid, solid, toxic and hazardous wastes; and integrated waste management and industrial process modifications to achieve waste minimization and pollution prevention objectives; Management of air emissions; Remediation of groundwater and riverine, lake, estuarine, and marine water; Brownfields/Greenfields restoration; and Management of radioactive waste materials.

Electronic Submittal

The submittal process is online. The winners must submit a photographic panel for the awards presentation ceremony and conference presentation.

What Makes a Winning Project?

See examples of winning projects by clicking here.

If your best environmental engineering or environmental science projects deserve more recognition by the profession and the public, enter the 2016 E3S Awards program. The entry deadline is February 1, 2016.

Entry guidelines, submission forms, and previous winning entries available at http://www.aaees.org. Click on Awards and Competitions.