At the ION GNSS+ Conference in September, the Bradford W Parkinson Award was presented to Dr Yu Jiao in recognition of her graduate student excellence in GNSS in her thesis, Low-Latitude Ionospheric Scintillation Signal Simulation, Characterization and Detection on GPS Signals.

The Bradford W Parkinson Award is granted annually to recognize an outstanding graduate student in the field of GNSS, and is presented in honour of Bradford W Parkinson for his leadership in establishing the US Global Positioning System and for his work on behalf of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation.