XXXVth URSI GASS in Sapporo, Japan

Ionospheric scientists K. Groves, T. Beach, and S. Radicella of BC’s ISR traveled over 6,000 miles to Sapporo, Japan to the 35th General Assembly & Scientific Symposium (GASS) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Aug. 19-26, 2023 to present their research. Groves described efforts to forecast “spread F”, an irregularity in the ionosphere that can interfere with radio communications that he and BC/ISR co-authors J. Retterer, C. Carrano, and C. Bridgwood are investigating. Beach discussed monitoring ionospheric “scintillation”, radio wave fluctuations that stem from ionospheric irregularities like spread F, evaluating commercial GNSS receivers along with BC/ISR’s Groves, Bridgwood, M. Proctor, and D. Paznukhov. S. Radicella gave an invited talk on promoting radio science in developing countries in partnership with the late P. Doherty, BC/ISR’s former director. Groves also participated in the USRI Commission G committee meeting, where he was serving as Vice Chair.  Congrats are due as he is now the newly elected Chair through 2026!  They also ran into E. Yizengaw, a former BC/ISR scientist who currently works at Aerospace Corp. Pictured in the photo from left to right: Yizengaw, Groves, Radicella, and Beach (photo courtesy K. Groves).