{"602096":{"#nid":"602096","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Higginson-Rollins Tapped for AGU Outstanding Student Paper Honors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMarc Higginson-Rollins has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award, given by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to a very small fraction of student presenters from the AGU\u0026rsquo;s recent annual meeting. He will be presented with the award at AGU\u0026rsquo;s Fall 2018 meeting to be held December 10-14 in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHigginson-Rollins is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and works in the Low Frequency Radio Group. He is advised by ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award is based on Higginson-Rollins\u0026rsquo; presentation entitled \u0026ldquo;LF\/MF Propagation Modeling for D-Region Ionospheric Remote Sensing.\u0026quot; His work focuses on remotely sensing the D-region of the ionosphere, 60-90 km altitude, that is too high for balloons and too low for satellites, making it difficult to measure and characterize. At the same time, the D-region affects communication, navigation, and satellite signals, so being able to track it is of critical importance to a number of applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHigginson-Rollins\u0026rsquo; work focuses on the use of an extensive set of beacons at 300 kHz called NDGPS, nominally for navigation, but he has a serendipitous purpose in scientific remote sensing of the D-region. Utilizing measurements taken across the country in Low Frequency Radio Group receiver field sites, combined with theoretical simulations of LF radio propagation and plasma reflections, Higginson-Rollins\u0026rsquo; work will open a new method for ionospheric characterization that will be the basis for his dissertation. He is also a current recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and this work falls under Dr. Cohen\u0026#39;s recent NSF CAREER award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Marc Higginson-Rollins has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award, given by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Marc Higginson-Rollins has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award, given by the American Geophysical Union (AGU)."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-02-07 21:13:29","changed_gmt":"2018-02-07 21:13:29","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-02-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-02-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591537":{"id":"591537","type":"image","title":"Marc Higginson-Rollins","body":null,"created":"1494275788","gmt_created":"2017-05-08 20:36:28","changed":"1494275788","gmt_changed":"2017-05-08 20:36:28","alt":"photo of Marc Higginson-Rollins","file":{"fid":"225443","name":"Marc Higginson-Rollins.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Marc%20Higginson-Rollins.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Marc%20Higginson-Rollins.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1813240,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Marc%20Higginson-Rollins.jpg?itok=ssqvobV6"}}},"media_ids":["591537"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/lf.gatech.edu","title":"Low Frequency Radio Group"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering "},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/sites.agu.org","title":"American Geophysical Union"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov","title":"National Science Foundation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171909","name":"Marc Higginson-Rollins"},{"id":"93141","name":"Morris B. 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