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Welcome to New NOAO Scientific Staff...(1Jun94)
and Farewell to Those Departing
(from the Director's Office, NOAO Newsletter No. 38, 1 June 1994)

We are very pleased that Buell Jannuzi has accepted our offer to become
an Assistant Astronomer at NOAO in Tucson.  Buell is currently a Hubble
Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.  He received
his PhD from the University of Arizona, and had his first post-doc with
John Bahcall at the Institute.  He works on polarized emission from
radio galaxies and BL Lacs and on the space distribution of quasar
absorption systems.  Buell will start in Tucson next January as a
Hubble Fellow and will move into his staff position during the summer.

We are also happy that Charles Claver will be joining KPNO as an
Assistant Scientist.  Chuck is finishing his PhD work at the University
of Texas at Austin, analyzing the luminosity function of very cool
white dwarfs in the field and in open clusters.  Chuck's experience in
implementing a wide field prime focus corrector and CCD camera at the
McDonald 0.76-m will come in handy for his responsibilities for optical
imaging on Kitt Peak.  Chuck plans to start in Tucson next January as a
post-doc, and assume his staff responsibilities the following 1 October.

The new KPNO Post-doctoral Fellow will be Stephane Charlot.  Stephane
received his PhD officially at the University of Paris while working
with Mike Fall at the Space Telescope Science Institute.  He is
currently a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.  Stephane's research
interests include stellar population synthesis to interpret the near-UV
spectra of galaxies with a goal of deriving the history of star
formation and shape of the IMF.  Stephane plans to arrive in Tucson in
October.

Also joining NOAO will be Paola Sartoretti, currently finishing her
thesis with Melissa McGrath at the Space Telescope Science Institute on
Io and its sodium cloud.  Paola will be working with Mike Belton here,
in part continuing her studies of the interaction between the
atmosphere of Io and the plasma torus, and also with Bob Brown at STScI
on a search for extra-solar system planets.

Three of our current post-docs will be leaving us by fall of this
year.  Heather Morrison, currently a Hubble Fellow, will be taking a
faculty position at Case Western Reserve University, Mike Pierce will
join the faculty of Indiana University, and Mike Wise will become a
staff member of the AXAF Science Institute at MIT.  Since both Case and
Indiana are partners with NOAO in running telescopes on Kitt Peak, we
look forward to a continuing association.  Their presence has made a
valuable contribution to the scientific atmosphere in Tucson, and we
wish them continuing success in their research careers.

Richard Green

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