As noted in the Director's report, Haosheng Lin has rejoined the staff at NSO/SP, effective 6 January 1997, vacating his current position as a research associate working with the RISE/PSPT project. Lin received his PhD from Michigan State University. He has also held a position at Caltech/BBSO as a research associate. Haosheng maintains a strong interest in problems related to precise solar photometry and infrared polarimetry and magnetometry. His instrumental interests in these research areas are an important component of the research focus at the National Solar Observatory.
In other personnel news, Louis Strous has accepted a research appointment with George Simon. Louis has been interested in problems related to the excitation of 5-min oscillations and will be working with Simon on these and other problems associated with photospheric convection studies.
A new Instrumental Programmer/Engineer will join the technical staff at NSO/SP. Christopher (Kit) Richards comes to Sac Peak from Tektronix, Inc. in Lakewood, Colorado. At NSO/SP, Kit will be involved in the design and development of instrumentation projects.
Rex Hunter, Jeff Kuhn