On August 12 Pratik Joshi successfully defended his MSc thesis to an examining committee of four professors. The title of this thesis is 'Ion-neutral coupling in geomagnetically disturbed mid-latitude ionosphere as observed by SuperDARN HF radars and NATION Fabry-Perot Interferometers'. Pratik has been advised by professors Jo Baker and Mike Ruohoniemi and he has also conducted research with Prof. Randy Wynne of the Forestry department as part of his enrollment in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Program (IGEP) in Remote Sensing. His thesis work forms the basis of a paper that he has submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research with coauthors from Virginia Tech and the University of Illinois.

Congratulations, Pratik!