IES 2023 - Best Paper Awards
We are happy to announce the winners of the Best Papers for IES 2023, selected by the Science Organizing Committee. To be eligible, authors had to submit their 4-6 page paper prior to 1 May 2023. We congratulate the following authors:
Best Overall Paper:
Joe Helmboldt "An Empirical Mid-Latitude Model of the CkL
Irregularity Index from 35 MHz Scintillation Data" (Joseph Helmboldt, Brian
Hicks, Joseph Coombs, Gregory Taylor, and Jayce Dowell)
Best Early Career Scientist Paper:
Austin Egert "Comparisons of the Data-Driven D Region (D3R) Model to Incoherent Scatter Radar Observations During the Active Solar Conditions of September 2017" (Austin Egert, James V. Eccles, Jeffrey M. Holmes, and Joseph Malins)
Early Career Scientist Honorable Mentions:
Teddy Surco Espejo "Estimation of Ionospheric Scintillation Index S4 from Rate of Change of Total Electron Content Index (ROTI) in Low Latitudes" Teddy Surco Espejo, Charles Carrano, Keith Groves, and Theodore Beach)
Joe Hughes "A Verification and Validation of the Observation System Simulation Experiment Tool for Electron Density Specification" (Joseph Hughes, Ian Collett, Geoff Crowley, Adam Reynolds, Irfan Azeem)