Women in Radio Science (WIRS)
In 2019, USNC-URSI voted to create the first Women in Radio Science (WIRS) Chapter for any National Committee of URSI. The focus of the WIRS Chapter is to create a community where women and men with interests in Radio Science can meet to encourage and mentor early-career women as well as enable women at all stages in their radio science careers to collaborate and learn from shared experiences.
USNC-URSI considers the WIRS Chapter much the same as any of the ten USNC-URSI Commissions, in that the Chapter has Officers and members. In addition, the WIRS Chapter is charged with inviting prominent women to deliver a presentation at the annual NRSM (Visit NRSM 2025). Links to these presentations are provided below.
For information on how to join the USNC-URSI WIRS Chapter, attend the WIRS business meeting and WIRS reception at the annual NRSM or contact the WIRS Chair.
WIRS Leadership
Cristina Fernandes
Chair
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
cristina.fernandes@jhuapl.edu
Attendees at the WIRS Business meeting during the 2024 NRSM in Boulder, CO.
Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft Transmitter Electromagnetic Compatibility
Dr. Dawn H. Trout - Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, FL
January 2022
Abstract |Video available at the conclusion of the NRSM 2022