{"591539":{"#nid":"591539","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Higginson-Rollins Wins URSI Young Scientist Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMarc Higginson-Rollins, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has won a Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EURSI selects winners of this award once per three years, in conjunction with its General Assemblies, which this year will be held August 19-26 in Montreal, Canada. Winners of this award must be under 35 and presenting a paper at the assembly. It is a very competitive selection process, and Higginson-Rollins was one of only 16 winners from the USA. He is a member of the LF Radio Lab, where he is advised by ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EURSI covers a wide range of electromagnetic and radio applications, with 10 commissions covering theoretical electromagnetics, antennas and communications, interference, remote sensing of the atmosphere and space environment, radio astronomy, and biological applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHigginson-Rollins\u0026rsquo; work focuses on using Low Frequency radio beacons, near 300 kHz, to directly probe and characterize the lower ionosphere (60-100 km altitude). This ionized plasma region, at the border between earth\u0026rsquo;s atmosphere and the space environment, is otherwise difficult to monitor due to being too low for satellites and too high for balloons. Nonetheless, the impacts on long-range radars, communications, navigation, and geophysical remote sensing necessitate understanding its dynamics better.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHigginson-Rollins\u0026rsquo; work will be funded by the National Science Foundation CAREER Award received by Cohen and the LF Radio Lab and by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which Higginson-Rollins won.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMarc Higginson-Rollins, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has won a Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Marc Higginson-Rollins, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has won a Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). 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