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Staff/Visitor Comings and Goings (1Sep92) (from CTIO, NOAO Newsletter No. 31, 1 September 1992) There will be a few changes in the landscape of faces that one normally sees around La Serena in the coming months. The one departure that will be keenly felt by all of us is the re-location of Lisa Wells, our data reduction specialist, to NOAO/Tucson. Wells has been at CTIO for the past five years, serving as one of the primary interfaces between visiting astronomers and IRAF. She has been the most valuable person in the observatory for those people who are not very familiar with IRAF, once they have come off the mountain with data. For those of us who know IRAF, she has been equally valuable as a force that holds us together via volleyball games and social events. Wells will be leaving CTIO the first week of September to work with the data reduction group at KPNO, and we wish her every success in Tucson. In August Richard Elston arrives in La Serena to take up his new position on the scientific staff as Assistant Astronomer. Elston is now a post-doctoral research associate at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, before that he served as a post-doc for three years in Tucson at KPNO. Although his specialty is IR instrumentation and observing techniques, Elston has been involved in a wide variety of research projects utilizing both optical and IR observations. He has concentrated on the processes of galaxy formation and evolution and was involved in the IR survey work which resulted in the discovery of the population of high-redshift (z = 0.7) luminous red galaxies. He will continue this research at CTIO and will assume an important role in the development of our IR instrumentation. In addition to the above changes in the permanent scientific staff at CTIO, there will be a number of short-term visitors at CTIO who are spending research leaves from their home institutions. Two of these people, Hagai Netzer and Gary Ferland, are interested in active galactic nuclei and will be collaborating with Jack Baldwin. Netzer is at Tololo for two months, from mid-July to mid-September, and Ferland is spending an entire year as a Visiting Resident Astronomer beginning in September. A third visitor, Nelson Caldwell (SAO/Mt. Hopkins), will be resident at CTIO for five months from August-December. Nelson was a staff member here five years ago before going to Tucson, and it is a pleasure to welcome him back. Bob Williams
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