2024 Fellow

Presented to: Dr. Susan Skone

Citation: For sustained contributions to the advancement of
geospace studies using GNSS and related subjects; and for her selfless services to the broader community

Dr. Skone has made continuing contributions to the investigation, mitigation, and monitoring of high latitude ionospheric effects for GNSS. She is an early pioneer in studying the ionospheric limitations and specification for wide area differential GPS.

Her research has focused on ionosphere modeling for wide area differential GPS applications, ionospheric scintillation monitoring, water vapor estimation for GPS meteorology, differential GPS for maritime applications, and GNSS remote sensing methods for real-time characterization of the ionospheric propagation environment. She has used this research in the development of the Arctic GNSS Testbed, and for the establishment of high latitude geospace observing systems to augment studies of the ionosphere. She has also been actively engaged in a number of satellite missions, leading cube-satellite payload designs and developing meteorological probes for aircraft use, and has been active in atmospheric profiling using GNSS radio occultation techniques.

Dr. Skone actively contributed to shaping policies on PNT and GNSS. As a member of the U.S. NSF and NASAsponsored ionospheric disturbances focus group for the U.S. Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan, she contributed to policy recommendations to senior government leaders in Washington D.C. and has served on international advisory boards.

She served for 27 years in the Royal Canadian Navy as a Maritime Surface and Sub-Surface Reserve Officer in various positions of operational and administrative leadership, in multiple warship deployments, and in support of several fleet operations.

Dr. Susan Skone is a professor of Geomatics Engineering and an associate vice-president for research at the University of Calgary. A dedicated educator, professor Skone advised 20 graduate students, mentored seven undergraduate researchers, and supervised six postdoctoral scholars. She is a prolificate writer, winning several ION Best Presentation awards. She received her PhD in Geomatics Engineering from University of Calgary in 1999.